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 * Educating children a healthy life **

First of all, according to World Health Organisation (1998), it is crucial and important for children to reach a level where they could maintain and sustain a lifelong healthier life starting from early childhood right up to adolescence. In order for a child to initiate living in this lifelong healthy life, Health Sectors all around the country help to stimulate health promotions or campaigns. This will help deliver the most active and proficient way to influence youngsters into the habit of living a healthy life in the near future. So WHO (1998) suggests having nutrition interventions starting at school helps children to accomplish excellent health. Also nutrition contained in a healthy diet is required for youngsters to improve regular school attendance and also to show best class performance at all times. In America, Campaign for Healthy Kids (2010) states that they help with the funding of public health interventions which it will make an effort to get rid of childhood obesity. This is due to the fact that obese or overweight sets our children into higher risk for serious health problem.

Secondly, there are a growing number of children becoming overweight in the world, particularly majority of overweight children have poor eating habits. The main problem nowadays is that parents are too busy to deal with their work, they cannot find enough time to cook and provide a healthy diet for their children. As a consequence, children tend to eat fast foods and high fat food more frequently than before. Parents play a crucial role in shaping children’s behaviour; hence, they need to help their children to realize the significance of a balanced diet and a healthy weight. As reported by Wiley (2002) overweight individuals may have a high risk of chronic disease (high blood pressure and heart disease) and tend to live shorter than others. (p.130) So, it is essential for children to keep themselves in shape. Moreover, the duty of parents is teaching and providing guidance for their children to choose healthy food. Wiley(2002)states that there are four groups of healthy food (vegetables, grains, beans and fruits) which are good to maintain children’s need and health.(p.102) Therefore, during youngsters daily life parents need to spend enough time to prepare a healthy meal for them. In order to allow children to develop a habit of eating healthy food, it may be helpful for them to have a balance diet in their future life.

The third point about educating children for healthy food habit is the vitality for youngsters to engage with sport activities in order to build up a healthy lifestyle. There are several ways which children can participate in physical activities via physical welfare and creative act or school programes. In addition, it is crucial to inspire them optimistically for doing sport and direct them for their field of physical interest. As a result they will have more self-confidence about their ability to successes in this type of sport. This autumn in Auckland there was a boat show for children states by Rose as cited by Gibbs (2011), he states "the show has brought these organizations together in one place to make it easier for those wanting to find out more about boating." As the name implies, the Discover Boating Center is the real knowledge hub of the show," .Particularly, obese children should be guided by their parents to set a balance diet to keep their level of fitness. According to Chang as cited by Taylor (2009, p.100) children can maintain a healthy body in early age by exercising regularly. Furthermore, they are more likely to be motivated by non-traditional sport such as: Canyoneering**,** Fastpacking, Four Square, Packrafting rather than traditional once.

 Lastly, psychological and social education for children is also very important to provide a healthy life. It is believed that children act the way their parents or surrounding adults behave by observing and learning from them. Therefore it is crucial for adults and school teachers to educate and encourage a non-stressful and pro-social life to the children. Stress is one of the psychological matters that negatively affect health. It is stated that “there was a significant relationship between daily stress and the occurrence of both concurrent and subsequent health problems…” (DeLongis & Folkman & Lazarus, 1988). Additionally, maintaining strong and trustworthy interpersonal relationship is the major aspect of conserving social health as House, Landis, and Umberson (1988) explains that having poor or not enough social relationships tends to increase the risk of death. Stress could be retained by reducing the amount of workload from school and minimised pressure from parents’ high expectations. Advocating children of flexible social relationship can be induced by parents and teachers giving interest, and then giving advice to the child’s social life. In this way, children will learn how to cope as they grow up and stay morally healthy. Therefore if adults play a great role in socially educating children, they will be able to enjoy a more psychologically healthier life.

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