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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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Obesity, Are our children at Risk?
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"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 for the
development of illnesses such as: Diabetes, Hypertension,
and Obesity. And the common denominator for the development
of all three...is Childhood Obesity. Over the past decades
there has been a two to three fold increase in the incidence
of Obesity and a four fold increase in the incidence of
Severe Obesity among the young population.
The blame for this epidemic centers on poor nutrition and
inadequate exercise. Kids do not exercise enough and
usually do not exercise properly. In fact, the average
youngster spends an average of five and one half hours in
front of the television and/or computer screen or playing a
hand held video game. I'm sure some of you are thinking that
my comments are a bit much. Possibly, thinking to yourselves
that some of your children are on several different youth
sports teams and you challenge my allegations. Challenge
them by thinking: "my child gets plenty of activity, he
plays on four different teams." And others may be saying:
"there is no problem with my child; she is as healthy as a
horse." Well, please listen, recent reports note that up to
one third of mothers surveyed failed to recognize obvious
obesity in their own child. In fact, they thought the child
was the "right" weight. Respectfully, this is a relatively
new problem, one that we must all increase awareness of.
One that we must all work together to overcome.
A convenient tool to find "ideal" body weight is the Body
Mass Index (BMI). This simplified table gives you a
numerical value based upon height and weight parameters
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/bmi-for-age.htm). This
value represents whether you are under weight, "normal"
weight, overweight, or obese.
Through good nutrition and regular exercise, good health may
reign.
For more information on these and related topics, visit
http://www.momsteam.com/ and http://www.americanfitness.net |
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