Do healthy eating habits really matter for babies?
Absolutely. Healthy eating is very important for babies more from the standpoint of establishing good habits than from nutrition. The old adage “Bad habits are hard to break” stands very true for healthy eating. If parents start early by educating themselves and teaching their children healthy eating habits that foundation will be the basis for their whole life of eating. In addition, it is apparent that establishing healthy eating habits is crucial in this day and age due to the epidemic rise in obesity in children and adolescences. Most children don’t receive any nutrition education until they reach the elementary school level – based on the dramatic rise in overweight problems in children under 13, many agree this is just too late to start learning. After all, by the time most children have reached elementary school, they have already learned the basics of social behavior – sharing, saying thank you, no hitting, etc.. Fresh Baby believes that healthy eating habits are not different
