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Eat Right and Be Active! Eating right and being active should stay part of kid’s routines. With the new school year upon us, parents and children everywhere are settling in to a new routine. It takes several weeks to know what that routine will be. But remember that your child’s daily routine still should include nutritious foods and active lifestyle. Here are some tips to help you all stay healthy throughout the school year. Have meals together. This provides families an opportunity to reconnect at the end of a busy day. Eat at the table, not in the living room. Turn off the TV, and pay attention to each other. Limit snacks. Have healthy alternatives in the refrigerator and cupboards. Get the kids involved. Let the children help you plan and prepare meals. They’ll be more likely to eat what they have helped to make. Also, when possible, let the children help with the grocery shopping. Teach your kids about nutrition. At our house, our children know what carbohydrates, fats and proteins are. You can help yours learn about different types of foods, and as they grow older, they should be able to make healthy choices for them selves. Be a good role model. Children learn what they live, and if they see Mom and Dad making physical activity a priority, it becomes part of their habits, as well. Assign active chores. Walking the dog, washing the car and cutting the grass are good opportunities to keep your children active. Limit access to TV’s and Computers. The more time the kids are in front of a TV or computer, the fewer calories they will burn. The Food Guide Pyramid is one way for people to understand how to eat healthy. A rainbow of colored, vertical stripes represents the five food groups plus fats and oils. Eat a variety of foods. A balanced diet is one that includes all the food groups. In other words, have foods from every color, every day. Eat less of some foods, and more of others. If you look at the new pyramid you can see that the bans for meat and protein an oils are skinnier then the others. That’s because you need less of those kinds of foods than you do of fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy foods. You also can see the bands start out wider and get thinner as they approach the top. That’s designed to show you that not all foods are created equal, even within a healthy food group like fruit. For instance, apple pie might be in that thin part of the fruit band because it has a lot of added sugar and fat. A while apple - crunch! - would be down in the wide part because you can eat more of those within a healthy diet. Tedd Mitchell, MD, President and Medical director of Dallas’ Cooper Clinic KidsHealth.com |
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