Use Your Smoothie Maker, Nutritious Smoothies Introduce Children To Healthy Eating

By Alison Graham

As adults, it is still quite difficult to achieve a change to a more healthy diet containing the additional fruits and vegetables that nutritionists, scientists and the government are telling us, almost daily it seems, is what we must do to ensure our long-term health. We can understand the reasons why we are being told to make this change, but for our children, it is much more difficult when there are so many temptations and so much more pressure from friends to choose things that really are not good for them. You might not think of a smoothie maker as a tool in your arsenal to educate children into eating more healthily but smoothies are so delicious and full of goodness that they are a great start in getting children to eat more fruit and vegetables.

If your children descend on your kitchen at the end of their school day, ravenous and wanting the fastest possible snack to stoke up again to keep them going until supper time, you need some help if you are going to get them to choose a healthy option. If you want to divert them from crisps, cakes and biscuits and onto a more nutritious snack, it is going to have to be something that is speedy and delicious and that is where you win on both counts with a home smoothie maker. A delicious smoothie can be made in a few seconds and your children can even help to make their favourite recipe and get a delicious and nutritious smoothie in no time flat!

You know that by making your children freshly squeezed juice or even store-bought varieties, you are giving them a better option than fizzy colas or other soft drinks. If you use a juicer, you will know that so much of the fruit remains in the juicer after making the juice. All the additional nutrients that go into a smoothie come from this pulp that would otherwise be thrown away.

The whole fruit goodness in smoothies provides us with vitamins, minerals, essential fibre and antioxidants. However, smoothies bought pre-prepared from supermarkets, will be prohibitively expensive if bought regularly. Making them at home in a smoothie maker will save you a great deal of money – even if you have to buy a smoothie maker initially, you will very soon cover the initial purchase price with the savings that you make.

Insoluble fibre is vital and consuming insufficient in our daily diets could have serious effects on our health. Initially this may only be the problem of constipation and perhaps the discomfort of developing piles (haemorrhoids). In the long term, we may be storing up much more serious problems for ourselves by becoming more prone to very serious diseases such as cancer of the colon or bowel.

If you find that you suffer from that ‘slump’ of energy in the middle of the afternoon when all you really want is something sweet as a ‘pick me up’, then the soluble fibre in a smoothie will really help. It has a regulating effect on blood sugar levels and also has a lowering effect on cholesterol levels.

So in summing up, if we make it easy for our children, and ourselves, to make the right healthy choices about our diets – and where our children are concerned, get them doing this from an early age, we will be well on the way to preventing many of the serious health problems that beset so many people in later life. It might not sound like it, but a smoothie maker can be a really valuable asset in making the healthy choice, the delicious choice and therefore the acceptable choice.

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