Following the Food Guide Pyramid for Kids is an easy way to gauge how much food our children should be consuming.
Here are a few tips to help prevent our children from obesity:
- Make half your grains WHOLE! Choose whole wheat bread, oatmeal, brown rice, and low-fat popcorn, more OFTEN.
- Vary your VEGGIES! Go dark green and orange with your vegetables - eat spinach, broccoli, carrots, and sweet potatoes.
- Focus on FRUITS! Eat them at meals and snack time, too. Choose fresh, frozen, canned, or dried, and go easy on the fruit juice.
- Get your CALCIUM-RICH foods! To build strong bones, serve low-fat and fat-free milk and other milk products several times a day.
- Go LEAN with PROTEIN! Eat lean or low-fat meat, chicken, turkey, and fish. Also, change your tune with more dry beans and peas. Add chick peas, nuts, or seeds to a salad; pinto beans to a burrito; or kidney beans to a soup.
- Change your OIL! We all need oil. Get yours from fish, nuts, and liquid oils, such as corn, soybean, canola, and olive oil.
- Don't SUGARCOAT it! Choose foods and beverages that do not have sugar and caloric sweeteners as one of the first ingredients. Added sugars contribute calories, with few, if any, nutrients.
A simple way to include all five food groups into one is PIZZA!
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