Are you teaching your kids to be fat?

Parents teach their children so many things from learning to walk, to tying shoelaces, to solving math problems to driving a car. Of the lifetime lessons learned, however, perhaps the most important thing a parent can share is eating a sensible diet.

A healthy diet for a child plays a key role in reducing heart disease as he/she ages. These are the findings of a recent scientific study. The test, involving approximately 540 children and their families, provided counseling to the parents and focused on limiting saturated fats. “The aim of the diet counseling in our study was not to reduce the total number of calories in the diet, but to shift the child’s intake from saturated towards unsaturated fats and have cholesterol intake of less than 200 mg (such as in the use of more vegetable oils than animal fats and butter)”, explains Dr. Harri Niinikoski, lead author and pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Turku.

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