What Kids Think About Childhood Obesity
Nowadays, adults are getting worried with the rising numbers of overweight kids. Kids know it also. In a KidsPoll, 1,168 boys and girls were asked on the issue and it was found out that 52% of them agreed that there are too many overweight kids.
“This is important because knowing there is a problem is the first step to getting answers to solve the problem,” says Dr. Sandra Hassink. Dr. Hassink is a doctor in Delaware who has been helping kids resolve their weight problems. So, read on to find out more about the issue on childhood weight problems.
A Guide For Better Kids Nutrition
A study has indicated that parenting styles are linked to family meals. In turn, family meals also have an effect on adolescents’ eating habits. The University of Minnesota has found that children with authoritative parents take on family meals more frequently.
According to the university’s data, family meals tend to persuade adolescents to take on healthier diets. Thus, parents need to be authoritative. When they are, they tend to emphasize more on family meals – thereby helping their kids grow healthier.
Healthy Pyramid in School Lunches and Snacking
Summer’s over! Students are back to school again. Parents, on the other hand, will be packing healthy school lunches again until the school year ends – all for the love of their children.
Schools are also doing their best provide nutritionally balanced meals. But, for parents, packing a healthy school lunch at home is not that easy at all. Parents may be bombarded with their busy schedules that they barely have the time for meal planning as well as highly irresistible prepackaged foods that are full of sugars, salt, calories and fats.
Winning the Battle against Childhood Obesity
Calories here and calories there, Americans have been used to all those calorie-containing menus. At the same time, we have also primed ourselves on laws concerning obesity. Policies geared towards alleviating obesity are growing slowly yet municipalities across the country are already proposing them.
Obesity is indeed keeping our healthcare system at risk. In response to this, many restrictions are already considered and undertaken. One of these is New York City’s restriction on the amount of salt that restaurants should put on their menus. If provisions like these will really be observed, there will be radical changes in the way foods are packaged and sold.
Healthy Eating Tips for After School Snacks
Greensboro, North Carolina’s Stokes County Center, lives up to its mission of collaborating with communities so they could deliver nutrition education and technology that enrich the lives, land and economy of North Carolinians. They have provided a lot of programs all for the benefits of the residents of North Carolina, including both adults and children. To help alleviate kids’ devotion to chips and all unhealthy snacks, the Stokes County Center’s Stokes Cooperative Extension Office initiated a summer camp which gave kids the opportunity to have fun and at the same time, make healthy snacks on their own.
Twins’ Morgan and Brittany Rodgers, who went to 4-H of the summer at the Stokes Cooperative Extension Office, has learned a lot from the experience. The summer camp taught them how to eat healthy by making healthy after school snacks. They say these healthy snacks made them feel healthier and better.
Milk is Once Again Cool for School Vending and Nutrition
Since time immemorial, milk has been every child’s favorite. But milk tends to be out of the picture when children are already 11 years old. At this age, children drink more soda than milk.
In fact, America’s milk consumption fell from 20 gallons a year per capita, compared the early 1990’s 25 gallons. School lunchrooms used to be milk’s home because kids drink milk during recess time. But kids no longer drink milk as much as their parents want them to.
The First Lady’s “Let’s Move” Project Promotion at the NAACP Convention
During the 101st National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Convention in Kansas City, Mo., First Lady Michelle Obama strongly promoted her “Let’s Move” project. Thousands were there to hear her speak about childhood obesity, eating healthy and proper exercise. Moreover, it was a great opportunity for her to talk on the project and of what it can do for our children and the communities we live in as well.
The First Lady believes that children need basic nutrition to learn and do more. “See, we can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don’t have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they’re still going to have a challenge learning. And we can create the best jobs in the world — we must — but that won’t mean that folks will have the energy and the stamina to actually do those jobs,” Mrs. Obama said.
Schools say Bye to Junk Foods, Hello Healthy Snacks
First Lady Michelle Obama has been going an extra mile just to promote her “Let’s Move” campaign. She has speaking to various events and in all forms of media just so she can tell the world that it’s to get junk foods out of the picture and welcome healthy snacks for our own benefit. In her first-ever live chat in AOL Health, she talked about her “Let’s Move” project.She started the initiative to target childhood obesity. Through these efforts, children today and of the future generation can live healthier lives. But this project can not work with the First Lady at all and so the project also calls for parents, doctors, government officials and the nation as a whole to cooperate.