5 Ways to Add Easy Vegetable and Fruit to Your Daily Routine
Need easy vegetable and fruit ideas for you or your kids? Here are 5 simple ways to add more produce to your diet everyday to help reach your goal of seven to ten servings PER DAY!
Why do we need so many fruits and vegetables anyway?
Fruits and vegetables are full of important nutrients that can help prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
DID YOU KNOW:
1. According to the American Heart Association, more than 80 million Americans have some form of heart disease?
2. According to the National Cancer Institute, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men will have cancer in his or her lifetime.
3. Over 20 million children and adults have diabetes according to the American Diabetes Association.
These are staggering facts!
Be sure you and your family are on the right track to better health with these 5 ways to adding easy vegetable and fruits to your diet:
5 Easy Vegetable and Fruit Ideas
5 great ways to add fruit and veg into your children's diet quick and easy. This article really focuses on getting a good routine going and finding the easiest ways for your kids to eat more fuit and veg. Go to healthy lunch ideas for more tips and advice about healthy eating for kids.
Monday, July 11, 2011
5 Easy Fruit And Veg Healthy Lunch Ideas
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Healthy Lunch Ideas - Gluten Free?
I have had several moms ask if I am suggesting that "grains are not necessary" (blog posting March 2011), do I then believe that gluten-free diets are healthier than typical US diets.
Like so many nutrition questions there is no black and white answer.
Gluten-free diets can be incredibly healthy even for those of us who tolerate gluten. Why? There are numerous reasons related to grains, that I discuss in my previous blog, but the primary reason is these diets eliminate the processed foods we love to eat. Most of our snack products, be it savory or sweet, contain wheat.
This is a bit of specialized post but looks at a question that many parents are considering, if gluten free is meant to be the best diet for adults, does it translate into the same for kids? Really informative. More info at healthy lunch ideas
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Teaching Kids The ABC| Healthy Lunch Ideas
Teaching Kids The ABC’s Of Essential Vitamins
A few charts I have found that can be helpful can be found here:
Really interesting article based on the idea that kids are actually smart and can be taught about the benefits of nutrition. I love this idea as it really encourages engagement from kids within their healthy diet which I think is essential. More info available from healthy lunch ideas
Friday, July 8, 2011
Tips and Healthy Lunch Ideas
(Photo by Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
It’s National School Lunch Week, and many articles I’ve read in the news deserve a nod in my newly instated link-round up “Around the Lunch Table“. I’ll be posting links to stories across the web which deal with all aspects of healthy lunches – politics, how-to tips, recipes and more.
While packing a healthy lunch is an important part of keeping a balanced diet, saving money, and eating well, the national school lunch program is a vital government effort that needs an overhaul. As a nation, we are experiencing a failing education system, rising childhood obesity, and the food that our kids are being fed is pitiful, to say the least. It’s no coincidence that these are all integrally linked.
Let’s hope that making this a national issue will lead to active changes in schools across the country.
Whole lot of healthy lunch links and tips in this post, comes from prospective of school lunches which is not to everyone's taste, but, include links across the whole healthy eating spectrum. Worth a look. Go to healthy lunch ideas for more resources.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Healthy Lunch Ideas - How To Help Your Kids
Great set of videos and a blog post looking at how parents can help with their child's nutrition. Coming from a qualified nutritionist the post / videos dig a bit deeper and give some really great advice to parents. Visit healthy lunch ideas for more info
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Healthy Kids Challenge | Healthy Lunch Ideas
Fruits & Veggies Every Day the Tasty Way is one of the HKC Healthy6 messages, and matches up with MyPlate key messages teaching kids to make 1/2 their plates fruits & veggies. Teach Fruits & Veggies Every Day the Tasty Way to kids using this lesson titled Fruits & Veggies, Crunch and Munch. Utilize MyPlate and colors of the fruit & veggie rainbow to help kids hear, see, and practice the lesson.
Summary:
Choose plant foods like fruits, veggies, and whole grains for fiber. For the greatest amount of fiber, eat the skin of fruits and veggies and choose fruit instead of juice. Fiber makes us feel full, making overeating less likely. Fiber also helps lower cholesterol for a healthier heart and keeps food moving through our digestive system.
These are just 2 parts of Lesson 6- the sample lesson activity and the Move and Learn activity from p. 165 in grades 3-5 Balance My Day Nutrition Education Curriculum. The worksheet, teacher resource, fruit/veggie log, student assessment, discussion points and questions, and answer key are available for your review, along with school nutrition services and Taste and Learn activities supporting this lesson. Learn more on the Balance My Day Nutrition Education Curriculum page, or contact us with questions.
via healthykidschallenge.wordpress.comGreat healthy kids tips article from the healthy kids challenge. Looking at balancing food nutritionally for grade 3-5. Worth taking a look at for little ones of that age, gives very simple, easy advice. Visit healthy lunch ideas for more tips and suggestions.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Healthy Lunch Ideas - Eating With The Family
Some of my best memories as a child are of sitting around the table together as a family, sharing meals and conversations, discussing plans and daily happenings. Indeed, some of the best memories I’ve created with my husband were made over a thoughtfully prepared meal. Once our son was 6 months old, he too joined us at the family table, providing us with the opportunity to make our own family memories together.
The power of sharing a meal together as a family cannot by underestimated.
Here are a 5 reasons why family meals really are that important.
1. Role Modelling
2. Reconnect
3. Improve Weight Control
4. An Opportunity to Teach
5. The Power of Conversation
Photo Credit: Beverly & Pack
Tagged as: Family Meals
Coming up with healthy lunch ideas is not all about the food you feed your children, a lot of the time its about instilling healthy food behaviours that will last them for life. This article talks about one of those and that is eating family meals together, the author gives 5 top reasons and they are worth reading! For more articles visit healthy lunch ideas