Tuesday, 4 January 2011

“Healthy foods balance a diet”

“Healthy foods balance a diet”

Healthy foods balance a diet

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 12:13 AM PST

Do you think you have ever been on a diet?

If you eat, then you have been on a diet. A diet is simply the collection of the foods you regularly eat. Some diets are good and some are bad. But the word "diet" also can mean an attempt to lose weight by eating fewer calories or limiting some types of food.

All foods and many drinks contain calories which is one way we measure energy. We need calories, or energy, in order to live.

A healthy "diet" for kids in a given day should have about 1,600 to 2,000 calories for kids who are moving or exercising at least an hour or so a day.

You should eat a variety of healthy foods. A "balanced diet" means that you don't eat the same thing every day, and that you eat a mix of healthy foods from different food groups.

The healthy food groups are: fruits; vegetables; milk and dairy products; meat, nuts and other protein-rich foods; and grains – especially whole-grain foods, such as whole-grain breads and cereals.

Fat in our blood is called cholesterol. There is good and bad cholesterol. Have you ever seen a pipe clogged with hair and gunk before? That is what bad cholesterol does to the arteries inside of our bodies. Yuck!

For more information visit www.mcmillencenter.org and click on Kids and then on FRED.

If you are a NISTEM member and want to earn points for rewards, go to www.NISTEM.org, log in and complete the FRED January 2011 quiz.

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