Ayurveda in Schools

As we are well aware that today’s small toddlers are tomorrow’s youths, so to make nation more healthy and stronger we need the pillars to be rock iron strong, so Ayurvedic medical sciences is the best tool. Through Ayurvedic proper diet and exercises we can definitely achieve the goal. In this every child has to be evaluated on the terms of constitutional analysis and hence the proper immunity promoter guidelines has to be submitted.
So if being in the school faculty is providing the best of facilities for the school children if you add up the Ayurvedic medical facilities in your school. You may hit the target more accurately and precisely.

Preethirbalam sukham vritthirvisthaaro viphulam kulam ||
Yasho lokaaha sukhodarkaasthushtishchaapathy --asamshritaaha ||
This means "We get love, happiness, success and fame from our offspring. Our offspring help in continuing our family and occupation."

Children are our proud pocessions. We have to guard them and guide them carefully until they are independent enough to take care of themselves in right way. We welcome parents to discuss the health problems their children are facing.

What To Do When Your Child Is Overweight ?

With your busy day to day schedule with work and things to do at home, you don't often notice some of the things that are right in front of you every day. At times, you may sit back and suddenly realize that your child has grown eight inches taller or that his/her hair has gotten longer. It's often little things like these that happen each day that seem to go unnoticed for periods of time. Perhaps you've been starting to notice that your child has been putting on a little extra weight, or maybe you've noticed it for some time now and it's become a cause for concern. If your child has developed an overweight problem there are some steps that you can take to help them to start getting their weight back under control.

To start with, take your child to your family doctor for a routine checkup. Your doctor can determine whether your child has an under functioning thyroid or any other medical problem that may be causing the weight gain. Once cleared of any medical conditions, the doctor may suggest a certain type of weight loss diet and or exercise program for your child to follow.

At home, you can start to encourage your child to develop healthier eating habits. You can buy more fruits for snacking rather than the usual high fat ones found in the snack isle. You should even let him/her pick which fruits you buy so you know they are ones that they will eat. Also, rather than buying soda for your child to drink, buy sports drinks like powerade or various fruit juices. Also, try to get your child in the habit of drinking more water, and use the sports drinks and fruit juices for occasions like lunch or dinner time.

Plan healthy meals every day, and plan out your child's portions wisely, and make sure your child never skips breakfast. Skipping breakfast can make your child hungry and looking for less healthy things to eat later in the day. Also
try to avoid eating fast food as often as possible. Eating healthy meals at home can help your child start to learn to develop better eating habits. If it becomes a regular household routine, he/she will be more likely to "go with the flow" and start to enjoy eating different healthy foods.

Never use food as a reward for your child to get them to eat healthy. By telling your child that you will give him/her a slice of cake for desert if they eat all of their vegetables, you are in effect telling them that the cake has a higher value than the vegetables. The cake becomes the "pot of gold" you get for reaching the end of the rainbow.

Another thing you can and should do is to encourage your child to get more physically active. Encourage him/her to join an activity at school such as basketball or track. Find out what activities are offered through the community such as swimming or volleyball, and try to find one that your child might enjoy.

Make time to go on bike rides with your child or to take walks through the local park or hiking trail with them and make these things a weekly event you do with them on a regular basis. Have your child help you wash the car every weekend. Give them some household chores to do and make these chores their responsibility every week. The idea is just to have them doing things that will keep them active and moving.

If a reasonable amount of time has gone by after you've changed your child's eating habits and gotten him/her more active and you don't see them reaching a healthy weight, you may want to consider a weight control treatment program. Many of these programs will have a variety of people on staff who are experts in specific areas such as doctors, registered dietitians and fitness trainers. They can collectively asses your child's individual needs and formulate an overall plan to best deal with the problem. They can also help you learn how to keep up the healthy eating and exercise habits for your child after the program ends. Your family doctor can refer you to a treatment center that will best suit your child's needs.

Remember that the first step is simply the fact that you recognize if there is a problem with your child's weight. Being in denial about your child's weight problem if there is an obvious problem existing only serves to lead your child to unwanted, potentially dangerous health problems as time goes by. Taking steps to help your child with this sooner, leads to a healthier life for your child later.

A Balanced Diet For Your Kids

As a parent, one issue that is constantly on my mind is that of ensuring my children are properly nourished. Fortunately, my children have the eating habits of J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits- they eat at least three breakfasts before lunch. This gives me ample opportunity to ensure that their nutrition intake is set for the rest of the day.

I am sure that other parents have the same concerns, though possibly not the easy time I have with feeding my kids. I would like to share some of the nutrition "secrets" I have encountered in my seemingly endless trips to the refrigerator to keep my little hollowed out munchers happy.

The first secret is that nutrition is not a secret at all. Every container of food you buy has nutritional values listed on a label on the side. These values are very important in determining whether or not the charges of the stay-at-home parent are receiving all the vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein and the hundred other nutritional necessities that keep the mind of the stay-at-home parent occupied.

The second important secret is milk. Milk is the nectar of the gods. By making sure your kids drink just one cup of milk with each meal, you will have taken care of their body's needs for vitamins A, D and B12, as well as calcium, some iron content and even protein. Other dairy products also help fill these needs, so cheese and yogurt are also good add-ons for snacks or to meals.

Breakfast foods such as oatmeal and most cereals are also chock-full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Sugar cereals should be used sparingly, as a treat. There are lots of other ways to add some zing to a cereal that kids may otherwise think of as bland. Breakfast can also include fruit (bananas are an especially good power food) and juice, although too much juice in a day is bad both for a child's sugar intake and their teeth. Kids should be allowed some juice, though, and the new style fruit and veggie juice is ideal as it tastes just like regular juice but contains vegetable content as well (such as spinach and carrots), and thus is a good equalizer for a child who is finicky about their vegetables.

Whole wheat bread is also very important to a child's diet. They will only think it is undesirable if a parent or schoolmate points it out to them. Whole wheat bread, specifically Dempster's brand, is brimming with nutritional goodness.

Recent studies have suggested that vegetables bought frozen may actually be healthier than those cooked fresh. The freezing locks the nutrients into the vegetable immediately, and does not allow the leeching out that otherwise begins as soon as the vegetable is picked from the ground.

There are some foods that may seem like a good idea for a snack or supplement to a meal, but in fact they need to be avoided. Uppermost among these are dried banana chips. These little nuggets are actually deep fried, and just a handful contain more fat than a Big Mac! Make sure that you know how the food you are feeding your kids is processed before considering it a healthy choice.

Child-care has been discussed elaborately in Ayurveda and known as "Kumara-Bhritya". Special kind of care is take in making the medicine for children in "Ayurveda" as it understands, Children are weaker in strength than adults and are unable to tolerate strong medicines. In early childhood they are helpless and cannot properly express their symptoms or problems. So it is necessary to take utmost care in choosing remedies for them.

Ayurveda prescribes mild remedies for children in order to protect their delicate organs. Also, since Ayurvedic medicines are natural and harmless they are the obvious choice for treating children.In addition to physical problems, children in this modern age suffer at the psychological level. Often this is because their parents are too busy and cannot afford much time to look after them. As a result, the children lack physical love from their parents, which makes them unhappy. Although they are too young to express it, they hold the negative impressions inside, which affect their personalities. The events leave lasting impression on the tender mind of children and later become the cause of psychosomatic disease.

Ayurvedic child-care explains all of the physical and psychological problems relating to children and suggests simple natural remedies to treat them. This section provides simple solutions to some very common problems affecting children. If your child is suffering from any other problem and you are looking for an Ayurvedic solution, please feel free to contact us.