Making sure our children are eating properly and are getting the proper exercise is very important to me. As in my previous post Raising A Fast food Generation, obesity among Latino children is at an all time high and as parents, we need to get them back on the track of healthy living. So when I saw that two positive influential Latinos such as Laura & Jorge Posada wrote a book about family, nutrition, and health titled, “Fit Home Team: The Posada Family Guide to Health, Exercise, and Nutrition the Inexpensive and Simple Way” I decided to purchase the book to gain knowledge and insight about actions used to raise healthy children.
I have to say that this book has been written cover to cover as a testament to what is really important in the life of any family, health, happiness and family values. Our society to date has become accustomed to making things fast and to go without taking into consideration the consequences of what we are putting into our bodies or that of our children.
As some one who grew up in a single parent household with a mother who worked long hours in a factory, fast food was not an option. It did not matter how tired my mother was, she always provided my brother and I a home cooked meal because she knew this was the only way we would get proper nutrition.
As parents, I feel we take action to participate, teach and lead by example to create a healthy, disciplined, lifestyle for ourselves and our families. We as a community and as a people need to get healthy and it begins with us.
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