1. Eat Right, Exercise, and Have a Healthy Life! By : Neha Patil

2. What does being healthy mean? To be healthy means that you: 1. Eat healthy food like fruits and vegetables 2. Drink plenty of water each day 3. Make healthier choices; apples instead of fats 4. Turn off the T.V. and computer and get active 3. Not only when your sick People believe that they are healthy when they are not sick. This is not true. You can be unhealthy and not sick. 4. What to eat? To be healthy you should eat: 1. Grains/bread 2. Fruits/Vegetables 3. Chicken and Fish/Beans/Meat 4. Dairy 5. Here are some tips for what to eat: Eat many different colors of fruits and vegetables (5-8 fistfuls of fruit) 1 cup is around the size of a baseball (or 2 fists) 1 ounce is about the size of your fist 6. What you plate should look like: 7. The Food Pyramid This is the food pyramid. It shows what you should eat in one day. 8. Grains Eat about 3-5 ounces of grains in one day. Remember : one ounce is about the size of your fist 9. Grains The serving size of grain are: 1 slice of bread - a CD -Try to choose wheat bread instead of white 1 cup of cereal a fist or tennis ball cup of pasta a rounded handful 10. Protein-Meat, Beans, Fish and Nuts Eat around 3 ounces of meat/beans/ fish or nuts in a day. Remember 1 ounce is size of a fist. 11. Protein and Meats 1 serving of protein: 2 tablespoons of peanut butter a Ping Pong ball 3 ounces of fish/meat size of palm 1 cup of beans base ball or 2 fist size 12. Fruits You should eat 2-3 cups of fruits a day. 13. Fruits cup of raisins a golf ball size 1 serving size of fruits is: 1 cup of cut up fruit fist or tennis ball size 14. Vegetables You should eat 2 cups of vegetables. 15. Vegetables 1 serving size of vegetables is: 1 cup of green salad size of fist or tennis ball 1 cup of broccoli baseball 16. Milk and Dairy products You should drink/eat 2 cups of dairy each day 1 cup of dairy is equal to: Yogurt size 1 baseball 2 eggs 2 slices of cheese 17. Milk and Dairy products 1 serving size of dairy products is: 1 ounce of cheese size of thumb 1 cup of ice cream size of tennis ball 18. What should you be drinking? To be healthy you need to drink: Milk- 2 glasses of milk each day to strengthen your bones Fruit juice- pure fruit juice; no sugar Water 8 glasses of water daily to stay hydrated throughout the day You should not drink soda which contains too much sugar and caffeine for your body 19. Exercise Being active is also very important to staying healthy. You should exercise between 30 minutes 1hour daily. It could mean that you go outside to play your favorite game with friends Or go the park/ ride your bike Do some of the following stretches! 20. Stretching Time! 1. Kneel with both feet pressed together and knees apart. Have the arms along the body with palms facing up. While keeping back straight, bend over slowly and try to touch your forehead to the ground. Hold for 10 seconds. 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVbpCHLQLc 21. Bad Eating Habits can lead to What can happen to you in the future if you do not eat well: Obesity People become fat, get sick Diabetes Blood pressure Heart problem 22. Thank you! Thats it! Thank you for all of your time I hope you all had fun and remember: Eat Right, Excerise, and Have a Healthy Life! 23. Sources This information was provided by KidsHealth, visit KidsHealth.org or TeensHealth.org. 1995- 2013 . The Nemours Foundation/KidsHealth. All rights reserved. http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/healthy/portions_kit/s erving_size.pdf Pictures provided by Google images http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi My food plate http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/ My food pyramid http://foodpyramidforkids.org/