The best way to improve nutrition in children is to provide food with balanced nutrition at home. To get started, what was needed was a way to make healthy food choices and help your child develop a good relationship with healthy foods. The easiest is the children will follow the example of the pattern of living and healthy eating patterns from their parents. Below are some tips to help establish healthy eating patterns in children:

1. Do not restrict food to children. Limiting the number and type of food can increase the risk of eating disorders in children such as bulimia and anorexia as a teenager later. Another effect is the disruption of growth and development
2. Provide healthy food in your house. The children will eat the food available at home. Put the fruit as a snack on the table, not in the corner of the refrigerator. Bring an apple or an orange as your own snacks. Giving an example will be much more effective than simply advising them with words. Remember, kids will only eat food that is available in the home
3. Do not label the food with the word 'well' or 'bad'. Conversely,teach understanding to your child about the content of these foods. Like calcium contained in milk and fish are good for the development of bones and teeth, where the bones are good means children can actively play or exercise. Trans-fat is produced by fried foods (deep fried) can cause an increase in cholesterol that can cause obesity and heart disease so that children can play freely. Combine between food with sports activities or play boy
4. Respect the choice of healthy food by children. Give a smile and a compliment when they choose healthy foods
5. Do not about food choices that are not healthy. If kids want junk food you can ignore it. Or you can give them food instead of healthier. Example if your child wanted fried chicken, you can make roast chicken. If your children want fries, you can make baked potatoes with tomato sauce, broccoli, and meat
6. Never give food as gifts. This can cause children to be obese or suffer from problems of overweight. Give a gift to the child like a walk or a toy
7. Get used to eat dinner together. Tradition of having dinner with according to the research provides nutrition better for children and reduce the possibility of problems at the time adolescents
8. Provide plate each time to eat. The aim is that you can provide sufficient quantities and healthy on each plate (father, son). Your child will learn recognize the amount of proportional or enough to nutrition they
9. Give your child control. Encourage your child to give the value (0-10) in each food on the table after tasting it. If the type of healthy food, especially vegetables, get high scores, praise them and give them more vegetables.
10. Consult the pediatrician about your child. Consult if will make dietary changes in your child, do not judge your child is too thin or fat by your own

Everything is about how to form the habit of healthy lifestyles in your home. This takes time but the result will be worth it. Many types of food outside the home that can cause your child suffer from being overweight. But of course choices healthy foods that you apply at home will be able to protect them all his life.