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Your overweight child – what's a good kids diet?Based on the Cretan Diet, it is a great diet for children.
If you are concerned for your own overweight child or obese children and want them to enjoy a long, healthy and happy life then you could do no worse than turn to the traditional Cretan Diet for inspiration and ideas on what is the perfect kids diet for a growing child.
It’s particularly important that children and teenagers eat a diet that’s packed with vitamins and minerals. Remember the Cretan Diet is a completely junk food free diet with no artificial additives and is highly nutritious compared to some children’s diets.
A portion of bread, rice, pasta, cereal or potatoes to their lunch and dinner meals should provide them with enough calories to grow healthily and not gain excess weight. Add pulses or beans to one meal and you will be ensuring they are getting lots of minerals and vitamins from a wide range of foods. Adjust their consumption of water to a sensible level for the child’s age and size. Three litres is too much for a little tummy. Also by ensuring that they take a full hour’s exercise per day any excess weight should gradually reduce allowing them to grow into their healthy shape and weight. To learn more about the Cretan Diet and how it can help you live a longer and healthier life then we highly recommend Cretan Cooking brilliantly written and photographed by Nikos and Maria Psilakis. With 265 easy to follow recipes with wonderful colour photographs this recipe book is a must have for all lovers of Crete, the Cretan Diet and healthy food. The miracles of the Cretan diet, the most wholesome cuisine of the Mediterranean are unfolded in this great little recipe book. Cretan cooking has been described as the best and complete healthy diet in the world. Scientific studies confirm that people of the Island of Crete in Greece has the lowest mortality rate of Coronary diseases which is attributed to their diet. This book contains ingredients and recipes that will help you shed your weight and also improve your quality of life. Thousands of people all over the world are using this book as a guide to good and healthy cooking and living. International scientific researchers have proved that Cretan cooking offers people good health and long life. It is based more on the consumption of plenty of olive oil, vegetables, wild greens, pulses and cereals and less on the consumption of meat. Nevertheless, this does not mean that it is lacking in taste. Cretan dishes send forth fine flavours and tastes which can still be felt in the villages of the island. In this book you will find the main recipes which have been preserved on Crete for centuries, and which, together with the way of life, constitute what is called today "the miracle of the Cretan diet".
"Eat like the Cretans and you will live longer... A precious book, an encyclopaedia on the traditional nutrition of the Cretans, which hides many secrets to good health, well being and longevity" - ETHNOS NEWSPAPER, Athens, Greece "It is a marvellous and precious collection of traditional recipes which the authors have gathered with great zeal..." - TA NEA NEWSPAPER, Athens, Greece "A wonderful collection of authentic traditional and contemporary Cretan recipes, rich in historical content" - Magazine SAVEUR, USA £11.50 If you want to know more about the wonderful Greek island of Crete, home of the Cretan Diet and the Cretan Bowl Diet then visit my sister site of Completely Crete .Com Back to Dinner Recipes Page
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