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Healthy Snacks For Kids

Published on August 4, 2009 in Nutrition. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

Healthy Snacks healthy-kids

Healthy summer snacks are a must for keeping kids happy and active during time off from school. Snacks provide energy, prevent overeating, and keep blood sugar stable throughout the course of the day. Check out these ideas for healthy summer snacks for kids:

1. White or red grapes (Try freezing them for a new spin!)

2. Frozen blueberries on top of low fat yogurt

3. Fruit “kabobs” (Just line up diced fruit on wooden     skewers.)

4. Baby carrots and a small side of hummus

5. Sliced raw vegetable assortment with a small side of guacamole

6. Diced melon on top of cottage cheese

7. Banana pop (It’s just a frozen banana!)

8. Banana sliced, topped with natural peanut butter, on top a whole-grain English muffin

9. Unsalted almonds or walnuts over a fruit cup

10. Baked tortilla chips with bean dip

11. Celery sticks with whipped cream cheese as dip

12. Homemade “yogurt-sicle” (Just insert a popsicle stick and freeze!)

Bonus Tips: With all these tasty snacks, and summertime activities kids will certainly be thirsty, but resist the urge to serve an ice-cold soda and instead:

* Make an effort to keep water as the main beverage for your kids all summer long.
* When serving fruit juice, choose varieties that are 100% juice (Some kid-friendly boxes and pouches contain about 10% juice, so it pays to compare!).
* Fat-free milk is a nutritious, lower-calorie alternative to whole milk and some kids actually find it more refreshing than the regular kind.

You can also give your kids vitamins to keep them healthy from all the pathagens that are going around these days.

Your Child’s Health

Published on April 26, 2009 in Nutrition. Closed Tags: , , , .

Are You Giving Your Child the Nutritional Requirements They Need?

Every stage of your child’s development has its own critical nutritional requirements.

Did you know?

  • 75% of brain capacity develops between birth and age three. By age five, brain development is 90% complete.
  • Starting at age two, your child should eat a diet that’s moderately low in fat to avoid health problems later.
  • Between eleven and sixteen, your child often experiences a major growth spurt.

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It is never too early to get your child off to the right dietary start, but scientific research suggests there are

More reasons why this is critical.

In an analysis of family nutrition and physical activity, the American Dental Association found that surprisingly half of parents think their kids buy a healthy lunch at school on most days, but only about 36% of kids actually do.

Meanwhile, fast food and vending machine snacks are becoming their food sources of choice in greater quantities than their parents realize.

When it comes to sound nutritional choices, the evidence from the U.S.D.A reports that over three quarters of all school children eat fewer than the recommended five servings of fruit and vegetables per day.

Worse still, most “vegetables” are not vegetables at all because they are in the form of snack foods such as french fries (potatoes) and ketchup (tomatoes).

In addition unnecessarily super-sized portions, lure kids who are less aware than adults of the marketing practices of the fast food industry.

It doesn’t help that their offerings are also cheap to buy and are widely available.  Added together these factors muddle your child’s decision-making in favour of nutritional food choices.

Also problematic is the fact that many children aren’t as active as they used to be.  Children rarely walk to school and more often than not choose to play video games instead of tag.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that 36% of children don’t exercise at all.

It’s not surprising then, that childhood obesity is on the rise and according to some estimates, as many children as 2 out of 4 in America today  are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

There has never been a more urgent time to consider the importance of helping your child make healthy and nutritional choices.

But it is never too early to begin.

You can start today.
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