What kind of foods do you keep in the house? What do you serve for meals? How about snacks? You are in charge of what your child eats simply because you are the one who does the shopping and prepares the food.

Your child was not born preferring ice cream and candy to apples and nuts. In fact, your kid may get more excited over homemade wholegrain biscuits than she does over cookies - if she grows up eating and thinking that way.

I can tell you from experience, every child who played at my house and joined us for a meal or a snack delighted in the healthy food we served.

So if you think your child will only eat junk food and fast food and microwaved food - the stuff that is readily available and cheap (which should be a clue about its quality) you owe it to yourself to see the movie Super Size Me and watch the bonus material too - please - for your health and well being and for the well being of your family.

For instance, did you know that McDonald's puts addicting chemicals in their foods to get you to crave it? And most snack and kids cereals also have those chemicals? Now you know the real reason "you can't eat just one"-(bagful!) Consider it is you who has those thoughts and practices.

Also realize that food is grown on nutrition-poor soil. So taking food supplements can make the difference between good health and vibrant optimum health.

Please pay attention to the diet you eat and what goes in your child's mouth. Today there is an epidemic of obesity and diabetes - even in children! Diabetes has so many possible health complications it is the seventh leading cause of death. Diabetes costs all of us-through insurance rates for the sick-and lost income and work production.

Learn healthy eating for the life of your child if not for his emotional well being. Being a kid is tough. Other kids can be so mean. Being an overweight kid has to be a major challenge on the social scene. Besides, it is hard to do fun games and sports when you have to lug around extra pounds.