How can I help my child make healthy choices?

Children look first to their parents as role models for everything in life, and that includes a healthy lifestyle. To help your children make healthy choices, you must make healthy choices. Read and understand food labels and buy healthy foods for yourself and your family.

Kids spent over seven hours a day, on average, watching TV or playing on their computers or cell phones. But are they the only ones who watch too much TV and spend too much time on Facebook?

And kids need exercise. But do you set an active example? Do you take a walk at lunch, use the stairs instead of the elevator, exercise in the morning, at lunch, or after work?

Any way you cut it, kids model what their parents do. And boomers and seniors are plagued with multiple chronic conditions that stem from their own bad behaviors that probably started when they were kids. But you are never too old to change. Or to set an example for someone else.