Staying Active

Staying Active

Healthy living includes staying active and moving. Computers and high-tech games allow us to get in the habit of sitting all day. Bodies were meant to move. Get up from the computers, television and games. Start moving.

How can we move it, move it?

1. Take a walk with your family after dinner. Start off by walking one block then increase the walk to a further distance every day. This is a great time to talk as a family about what is going on in school and in the neighborhood. Not everyone has to walk though, if you have a bicycle ride it while your parents walk. You can circle back to them every so often and increase your distance and burn more calories

       2. Do you like to play a particular sport? Even if you don't ,         try a new sport. Get involved in a swim team, basketball           team, baseball team, volleyball team, the teams are                   endless. Get involved, try different sports and you may             like it. Even golf and bowling make you move it. 

Be active! Get motivated! Try new activities that make you move. All of this leads to a healthy lifestyle. 

MOVE IT! MOVE IT!

Helpful websites:

American Heart Association

Keeping kids healthy

Healthy Meals

Establishing a healthy meal plan is important for staying on track for a healthy lifestyle. Healthy foods include low-fat proteins, low-fat dairy, fruit, vegetables, and grains.

It is important to eat three healthy meals a day along with two healthy snacks as a growing child.

What should I not eat every day? 

Salted and fried snacks, cookies, cakes, and soda. They are alright to have occasionally but not every day. All of these snacks contain too much salt and sugar for a healthy lifestyle.


What are some examples of healthy meals for a day?


Breakfast: One cup whole grain cereal with 2% milk
                    Small banana
                   One cup of orange juice

Lunch:      Two ounces of deli ham on whole grain bread
                   1 tablespoon of mayonnaise or mustard
                   Carrot sticks
                   12 grapes
                   Water or one cup of 2% milk

Dinner:   One baked chicken breast with no-salt Italian                              seasoning
                 One cup of brown rice
                 One cup of green beans
                 One cup tossed salad with light dressing
                 One tangerine 
                 Water or one cup of 2% milk

Snack:     One cheese stick
                 One small apple

Snack:     One cup air-popped popcorn
                  12 raisins


Keep trying new healthy foods. Eating healthy foods will help you feel better and have more energy.

Helpful websites:

Eating Healthy Cartoon
                 

Health and Nutrition Suggestions from your Favorite Teacher

Welcome to my Health and Nutrition Blog ! 

My goal for this blog is to give practical suggestions for my students to continue to progress academically but also physically with healthy lifestyles. The stress and busyness of homework and after-school activities can lead to eating too much convenience food and junk food. Using these suggestions for eating healthy and being active can lead to a lifetime of healthy choices. 

You can navigate through this blog on the right as I give suggestions for eating healthy and staying active.

PARENTS:

This blog is not just for my students. You can enjoy the benefits of an active and healthy lifestyle too. Here are suggestions for encouraging a healthy lifestyle change:

• Participate as a family
• Buy healthy snacks like pretzels 
• Encourage eating new foods and vegetables
• Replace high fat snacks with fruit
• Shop as a family and allow children to make some healthy choices
• Include your child in the cooking process
• Replace television computer time with a family walk or swim
• Model healthy living for your children

Helpful link:
Kid's health