5 Habits of Healthy Families

5 Habits of Healthy Families

A team approach

Every wondered how families stay healthy, fit and slim? We asked Dr. Oz for advice on how to build a healthy family strategy. Dr. Oz says families (Carroll, images) that make healthy lifestyles together, stay healthy together. Here's your game plan for your family.

5 Habits of Healthy Families

  Rather than starve

To maintain a healthy weight, you must eat and not starve. "If you feed regularly, you will become insatiable hunger hormone that     causes" hunger ", ghrelin, to peak," says Dr. Oz. "The problem is   that half an hour for the hormone back to normal once you begin eating is needed, but in those 30 minutes, you probably Chow for     many more calories than if you had not eaten on an empty stomach."

Dr. Oz continues to fill the almonds in labor do not be surprised if you see some bite in your program.

5 Habits of Healthy Families

Automate breakfast and lunch

In a healthy go-to option for all, is much more likely that the poor earn spur-of-the-moment. Also, having a basic element of one or two typical healthy things going to the grocery store easier. "You do not want to reinvent the wheel every day," says Dr. Oz, who begins his day with a bowl of steel cut oatmeal with linseed oil, some nuts and raisins or sweet agave for food morning that Randy and Kathleen adopted and now love.

For lunch, Dr. Oz recommends a vegetable soup (like this tomato fennel soup recipe) or a turkey or tuna sandwich on whole wheat bread. For children, it can improve PBJ sandwich (not horrible, but the ice is all sugar) using less jelly or make a PB sandwich with a piece of fruit.

Exercise 20 minutes a day at home-

5 Habits of Healthy Families

Why stay in place? "If you have to go somewhere to exercise, you are automatically going to need more than 20 minutes, and violates the flow of your day," says Dr. Oz. "An hour is a long time;. 20 minutes is nothing," Keep your goal daily works and interesting practices nearby, explains, because none of us wants to admit that our lives are so disorganized that we can not cut 20 minutes fast.

"What we found is that if we tell people to do 20 minutes, enjoy it and end up making more than 20 minutes," which is even better for your heart, says Dr. Oz. Simple ideas that work: jumping rope in your driveway, and alternate with crunches and push-ups; do 20 minutes of a training video; walk in your neighborhood.

Be the feed manufacturer at home

5 Habits of Healthy Families

"I know it can be difficult for parents, but the big decisions about what to eat must be made by you to the supermarket," says Dr. Oz This is why. If you bring chips and homemade cookies, your kids (and you) they will naturally want to eat.

And if you try to restrict, in fact it will cause your child to his thirst for more. But if you buy the sweets, first, the children do not even miss them, Dr. Oz promises. Maintain good news in hand snacks (like nuts and crackers) and fruit and washed and cut vegetables in your refrigerator. "Kids will eat healthy snacks when they get hungry enough," says Dr. Oz.