Nutrition & Exercise Education Development
Delicious baby portobello mushroom burgers! Going meatless for a day can help reduce intake of saturated fat which is associated with heart disease.
How many times have you tried a fruit or vegetable until you actually enjoyed it? Trying it once is not enough, people should try foods 5-10 times before actually enjoying it!
The human palate has an affinity for sweet, therefore we douse our pancakes in syrup and add sugar to our fresh fruit. Saturating our food with sugar actually does us more harm than good not only are we increasing our caloric intake but we are creating an addiction to sweetness.
Our tongue is a muscle which needs to be exercised, and this article reveals how to broadening your flavor horizon will help in improving your waistline, health and repertoire of foods.
N.E.E.D inaugurated the new year by collaborating with El Encino Church to serve the community. Other organizations present were WIC (Women, Infant and Children), Healthy Smiles also donations from the community food bank and First Five were given out.
We worked with the kids. We began our program with a short ice breaker followed by a short “cooking” demonstration. At the demo we made a simple fruit parfait; the ingredients consisted of a Granny Smith apple, banana, low fat vanilla yogurt and Cheerios. I even worked food science into the demo by illustrating how to prevent oxidation of fruits by squeezing juice from an orange onto an slice of apple.
Then we encouraged the children to make their own parfait. The purpose of the demo was to get the children exposed to food, in this case it was yogurt, how to read a recipe and using tools such as measuring spoons.
Before the demo I surveyed the room, asking the kids how many has tried yogurt and only a few raised their hands. After trying it, the kids really enjoyed the yogurt and some even took the left over yogurt home! The experience proved to be meaningful and memorable for the kids and volunteers alike; we dialogue with the kids a more over eating snacking and some of the kids were really helpful with clean up too.
After the demo we went out to do a rely race. Good health also means getting up and moving. We challenged the kids to use their motor skills through activities like jump roping, hula hooping and weaving a soccer ball between cones.
The demo is not something N.E.E.D typically does, but in the future I want to invest in adding this component to the program. Kids are very receptive to food when given the chance to try it. In addition learning through seeing, doing, playing and eating is important to encouraging the kids to develop healthier eating habits throughout their life.
- Jia
Food allergies are a growing problem. The number of school-age kids affected rose 18% from 1997 to 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. About 8% of kids have them, a study in April in Pediatricsshowed.
In the USA, about 150 people of all ages die from food allergies a year; 80% to 90% of deaths are from peanuts or tree nuts. Continue…
A new research revealing adolescent with low quality emotional relationship with their mothers influences their likelihood to becoming obese.
Communities (including Fresno) throughout the nation are being proactive in promoting the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities project as a means to slow the rate of obesity. A short article to see what initiatives are happening through the nation!
