Let's take a look at the final key message that the USDA wants families to focus on:
Key Message #3: Foods to Reduce
'Lower your sodium (salt) intake.. Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals and choose the foods with the lowe...
We shared information and practical tips for the first key message of the new USDA dietary guidelines earlier this week. Today, let's take a look at the second key message that the USDA wants families to focus on:Key Message #2: Foods to Increase
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Let's take a look at the first message that the USDA wants us to focus on:Key Message #1 Balancing Calories
Enjoy your food, but eat less
Avoid oversized portions
Concept:Calorie balance is the key to preventing weight gain. Weight gain comes fro...
Today was a big day with the release of the new 2010 USDA food guidelines. Every five years the USDA releases and updated version of the Food Guidelines designed to help us eat healthy so that we can avoid heart disease, diabetes and obesity.Here are...
The Grocer Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute have just announced a new front of pack foodlabeling called Nutrition Keys. They developed this new initiative in response to our first Lady, Michelle Obama who met with them last y...
I was very excited to read about new research that shows the use of video games promoted positive behavioral changes in children that participated in the study.133 children aged 10-12 participated in the study. Kids were put in two groups. One group ...
As part of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, the USDA was required to release new nutrition standards for all schools participating in the government sponsored school meal programs.The USDA was tasked with creating new nutritional standards that would:...
It is the New Year and many of you are busy deciding your New Year's resolutions.But don't forget to involve the kids. This is a great opportunity to talk to children about healthy choices and what habits in their lives they can modify to be healthier...
Here are the printables, learning pages and worksheets that parents, teachers, health care professionals and communities printed and shared the most with children in 2010.
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We are so excited that the Child's Nutrition Act has finally passed. This bill is a big step in the right direction to help children all over the country get the healthy balanced meals they deserve.But I know many of you wrote your senators and repres...
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