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Here are some tips that will help you keep track of your child's food and eating regimen and help him fight childhood obesity. By eating poorly and not having good eating habits will effect the eating habits of your child and will lead to being lazy and becoming heavier and unhealthy. Your entire family will benefit from eating healthy eating and physical activity. As a parent you need to take a role in trying to create good habits and help your children establish healthy eating and exercising rituals, this will help in the long run.

Child obesity has lead to a number of other health related issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease from the combination of improper nutrition and lack of exercise. For the sake of her child's health both as a child and throughout his or her life, breastfeeding is the very best possible thing you can do when your child is young. A recent study in obesity suggests that children who are breastfed by their mothers during the first year of life are less likely to develop obesity as they get older.

If you are concerned about your child possibly being overweight then you need to decide whether the excess weight is part of a growth pattern that may change over time or whether there is a weight problem. Forget all the drugs and diets, feed your children healthy food and monitor what they eat, this will help your child in the long run.

It is important as parents that we take more responsibility to ensure healthy living for our children and to ensure they eat enough so they are healthy and they grow up eating healthy foods, we must understand what is healthy weight and what is weight that is leading to becoming obese. Yes they need to eat enough to be healthy and to grow properly, but we must know where to draw the line between what is a healthy weight and what is excessive weight. As parents, we can not take the stand that it is healthy for our children to be round and plump.

One reason: children have increased the amount of calories they eat each day by as many as 300. Did you know that more than 60% of American youth eat too many fatty foods, and less than 20% eat the recommended five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. A journal is just a tool for you to help your child eat better.

Many of the foods children are eating today are fried or fast food type. To keep your children healthy and at an acceptable weight make the meals yourself so you know what you are putting into the food, you are able to control the portions of food and include healthy types of food like vegetables, fruit and many other types of food.

Some Basics About ADHD
ADHD is a disorder that effects both children and many adults as well. ADHD is more common with boys than with girls. Between 4-8% of children in the United States are effected by symptoms associated with ADHD, but also, most other countries have similar or even greater rates of ADHD with children.

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Some of the most common symptoms are:

? inability to concentrate

? impulsivity

? inability to focus

? fidgety

? inattentiveness

? not being able to sit still

ADHD can exist with or without impulsivity. For some, ADHD-IA, or Inattentive type is common. Many symptoms associated with ADHD are also associated with bipolar disorder, and there are errors in diagnosis. The most common form of treatment for ADHD is medication, but there are many other forms of intervention that can help. (the medications most commonly used are stimulant medicines.) Not everyone agrees with the labeling system that classifies children as ADHD. In fact, one respected physician, educator and author, will not use or recongnize the term. (Dr. Mel Levine, All Kinds of Minds organization.) So there are different ways of looking at mental health problems, espeically with children.

Side Effects of medications:
The most common side effects of stimulant medications are insomnia or depression. Also, jitteriness, facial tics, and emotional sensitivity can also result from use of stimulant medications in children. Depression might be more common with prolonged usage.

At times, there have been a very serious side effects with medicines for ADHD, such as deaths associated with heart failure for children who have undetected heart problems. The testing for such congenital heart defects is expensive and cost prohibitive, so testing for heart defects is generally not conducted when stimulant medications are administered. Also, in 1 out of 1,000 cases, schizophrenia like symptoms have resulted from usage of stimulant medications, bizarre behavior, voices, delusions.

For most children, there will be serious side effects, with medication use:

? weight loss

? Insomnia

? depression

...as well as a number of others. It is thought that within six months, only about half of children on medications for ADHD will continue to have serious side effects. Within two years time, a recent study indicated, only 15% of those on medications for ADHD will have serious side effects. (see David Rabiner, helpforadd.com.) So there is a tolerance that develops in children who are on medications for ADHD. It might also be true, however, that, as in the case of Prozac, the effectiveness of the medication decreases in time as tolerance builds.

School is usually where ADHD is first diagnosed in children.

* Boys with ADHD outnumber
girls at least 2 to 1

* Up to 10% of children in some states
are diagnosed with ADHD.

Some other children's disorders:

* Up to 10% of children in some states
   are on psychotropic medications

* New Jersey has the highest rate of
   autism in the nation, with over 10 in 1,000
   of children diagnosed with this disorder.
   Medications have not proven to be an
   effective aid for children with autism.

ADHD can be overcome. There are many positive steps that can be taken not only to control the symptoms but also to live a normal, healthy life without the need to take daily medication. The more support a family has, the better they are to cope.

Children with ADHD need positive, interactive educational instruction. They need attentive teachers, preferably, smaller classroom settings. They often need one on one assistance. Tutoring, coaching, mentoring all positive areas of assistance in helping children with ADHD.

One reading coach who has worked with hundreds of students over the years with both learning disabilities and ADHD says that in even the children that she has tutored with the worst ADHD symptoms, with support from professionals and from dedicated parents, those whom she has worked with have been able to be successful in school without the need for medication to ?help them focus?.

One student with severe ADHD symptoms went on to successfully complete college, with support from others for his special needs and without medication. Many other similar experiences have been reported.

Positive Attitude and Positive Teaching ?..for more on this subject see for articles on ADHD and other related subjects.

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