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Want your kids to get enough calcium? Set a good example and drink milk too
Hey moms, if you want your daughters to grow strong and healthy, serve them milk, and pour a glass for yourself, too! The most available source of calcium in our food supply comes from milk and foods made with milk, so it’s not surprising that those who drink more milk get more calcium.
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Kids & Snacking
Snacking is a very important part of a kid’s day. Growing children often need more food energy than they can easily consume at a single meal. In fact, about 20 percent of a child's energy and nutrients come from snacks.
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Starting the Day off Right
Let’s face it, we’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important  meal of the day, but all too often we not only neglect it for ourselves, but don’t enforce and encourage our kids to eat in the morning
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Eating Properly Can Only Help
Adequate and proper nutrition is important for kids as they grow and develop. It is compounded in sports, when athletic performance becomes increasingly paramount for their success. It is easier for kids to reach for a bag of chips or a can of soda at school...
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What Fuels our Body?
Our bodies are all about energy. And energy provides the fuel our body needs to do work. Since our body is always working, it needs continuous energy.
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"DIET" vs. "DIET"
There's a big difference between a "diet" (i.e. a regimented food plan to help you lose weight), and your diet (i.e. what you consume on a regular basis), and this is a big part of the problem with confusion among all of us.
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Obesity, Are Our Children At Risk?
"That's just baby fat," "so he's a little chunky," "no need
to worry, she'll outgrow it."
Heard these expressions before? I bet you have, probably you
have even stated them. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad
news but statistics reveal that our present generation of
"future" adults is at an alarming risk level
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Kids & Snacking
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Snacking is a very important part of a kid’s day. Growing children often need more food energy than they can easily consume at a single meal. In fact, about 20 percent of a child's energy and nutrients come from snacks. Snacks should provide the energy hungry kids need, as well as the nutrients they might have missed at meals. What this means, is that three square meals of breakfast, lunch, and dinner is certainly not enough, especially if your children are involved in sports and you should encourage healthful snacking. Nutritious snacks are smart ways for your kids to get the energy and nutrients their bodies need to grow, play, and learn.
Just as when you plan meals, when you select snack foods, you need to keep an eye on your main goal - a balanced diet. Fortunately, there are lots of healthy snacks out there on the market and mom’s and kids are responding. Take yogurt, for example, which according to the NPD group, is the fastest growing snack food among kids under 13. And this is probably because yogurt now comes in so many convenient and packages, sizes, and flavors. Traditional salty snacks, like pretzels, chips, and tortilla chips are still the most popular snack-oriented food among kids 2 to 12, but fortunately, fresh fruits rank second. If you’re kids crave salt, only buy pretzels, since they are so much lower in fat than any kind of chips.
Other excellent on-the-go, good-for-you snacks include popcorn, fig bars, graham crackers, granola/energy bars, fruit snacks, baby carrots, apple slices, peanut butter (on anything), flavored milk, yogurt shakes, pudding, and mozzarella 'string' cheese. Like everything else, just make sure that there is portion control and promote healthful and fun eating.
Julie B. Hirsch, PhD |
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