Indian River Citrus Fruits Can Get Kids to Eat Healthy and Enjoy It

If you’re like most parents you struggle to get your kids to eat healthy food. Childhood obesity is at epidemic levels because many parents simply can’t get their kids to choose healthy food over junk food. But Indian River citrus fruit can help you teach your kids that healthy food can taste great too. Once your kids start to eat naturally sweet and rich Indian River oranges and grapefruits they will start to prefer the natural sweetness of these healthy snacks over the processed sugars and additives in candy bars or potato chips.

Each piece of Indian River citrus fruit has around one hundred calories or less. That makes Indian River fruit a much better snack choice than candy bars, sodas or chips that your kids probably eat now. There are three hundred calories or more in most candy standard size candy bars and five hundred calories or more sugary sodas. Potato chips are not high in calories when eaten in small portions, but most kids eat several portions in one sitting and that can add up to five hundred calories or more per snack. The fiber in oranges and grapefruits will help your kids full between meals so that they won’t want to snack as much. The natural sugars in the fruit will help calm sugar cravings and keep them energized. The human body can easily break down sucrose, or natural sugar, like the sugar found in Indian River citrus fruit, and that sugar gets used for energy. Processed sugar is harder for the body to break down and often ends up as stored fat. So when your kids eat unhealthy snacks those snacks turn almost directly into fat.

Studies have shown that the eating habits that kids learn when they are small will last throughout their lifetimes. Kids will always eat the way they were taught to eat as kids, unless some major life event changes their perspective. So giving your kids healthy snacks like Indian River citrus fruits can get them on the path to eating right for the rest of their lives and avoiding problems like diabetes or obesity as they get older. Giving kids healthy snacks while they are still growing will contribute to their development and help them grow up to be strong and healthy adults who will make smart food choices, like choosing to eat healthy, all natural Indian River citrus fruits as snacks.

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