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Article: Good Habits for Healthy Children.
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Parents can do a lot to put their children on the road to lifelong health. Here are five steps to get your journey started.
One of the most important facts that parents need to understand is this: Children who practice healthy habits early in life are much more likely to continue those habits through their teen years and into adulthood. According to the American Association for Health Education a key reason for that reality is that a child's brain is more impressionable than an adult's.
"Young children haven't had a real opportunity to develop a concrete preference in their likes and dislikes, so it is easier to start them off on the right foot than it ...