Various fast foods, sweets and delicacies of saline - are available fresh risks for children and young people across Europe, and their excessive consumption means not recommended, due to the many negative impacts on the body.
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In order to create strategies that will help children and young people to resist the desire for excessive consumption of sweet foods and salty and reduce the consumption of so-called empty calories, European research project started TEMPEST, which gathers researchers from nine European countries, while the research team also belongs Liliya Nureeva, a student of doctoral studies at the University of Aarhus.
"Children and teens need to know more about health and tactics available that can be set independently for their food regime and the formation of nutritional habits," explains Liliya Nureeva.
What are the tactics that help to resist temptation?
TEMPEST project included data from nine European countries, while the basic idea is the active involvement of different strategies in the daily lives of children and young people that they take an active role in health their overall style of living.
TEMPEST project included data from nine European countries, while the basic idea is the active involvement of different strategies in the daily lives of children and young people that they take an active role in health their overall style of living.
"Some children find it easier to control the nutritional habits if you simply eliminate the unhealthy foods, while others prefer distraction to forget their desire for sweet. Some, however, form its own rules according to which, for example, every day to eat fresh fruit or sweet dare to eat only during weekends. Children should be taught strategies and methods that control the urge for unhealthy food consumption, "said Liliya Nureeva.
What strategies are suitable for children?
Changing nutritional habits is vital and complex process, especially when it comes to children and young people, who are more prone to temptation and seduction than adults. The first step is to develop awareness of what is attractive to children and young people, when it comes to food, and how this affects the food, transmits Koha.net. After that it is necessary to find tactics that can help avoid or remove mania (for example to leave the source of temptation or to limit the amount of unhealthy food consumption on a weekly or monthly basis). The next step is to set measurable goals or rules for achieving those goals, but also the time in which it is necessary to test achievements.
Changing nutritional habits is vital and complex process, especially when it comes to children and young people, who are more prone to temptation and seduction than adults. The first step is to develop awareness of what is attractive to children and young people, when it comes to food, and how this affects the food, transmits Koha.net. After that it is necessary to find tactics that can help avoid or remove mania (for example to leave the source of temptation or to limit the amount of unhealthy food consumption on a weekly or monthly basis). The next step is to set measurable goals or rules for achieving those goals, but also the time in which it is necessary to test achievements.
Liliya Nureeva recalls how parents, teachers and other persons who are close and daily contact with children and young people should serve as an example and to show children the various advantages of changing living habits and lifestyle.
Soon expected publication of the manual for TEMPEST project, which will help parents and others to recognize children and young people with useful tactics in changing lifestyles.
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