Kayla AriailYasmeen Pitts

NUTRITION

In Georgia, there are only 40.7% of schools that require their students to take 2 or more health education courses.

About 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 are obese.

Strategies for parents: Make sure your child gets physical activity every day Serve water instead of sugar drinks to your family Serve healthier foods at dinner. Give plenty of fruits

and vegetable and less foods that are high in fats and sugars

Limit your kids to 1-2 hours of media per day

Strategies for communities:Put salad bars in schoolsCreate and maintain safe neighborhoods and create improved ways to parks and playgrounds for kids to have physical activity

Expand programs that bring local fruits and vegetables to schools

Dairy 2-3 servings

Proteins 2-3 servings

Vegetables 3-5 servings

Fruits 2-4 servings

Grains 6-11 servings Make at least half of those grains whole grains

FOOD PYRAMID

Calories: 40 calories is low 100 calories is moderate 400 or more calories is high

Eating too many calories is l inked to being overweight and obesity

Limit intake on Total Fat, Cholesterol, and Sodium

Get enough Vitamin A and C, Calcium, and Iron

Percent Daily Value: 5% or less is low for nutrients 20% or more is high for

nutrients Each nutrients on the %DV

scale is out of 100% so you are able to see which is giving more nutrients

NUTRITION FACTS LABELS

"How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label ." U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA, 31 Oct 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011. <http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/NFLPM/ucm274593.htm

"Strategies and Solutions." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC, 21 Apr 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011. <http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/solutions.html>.

"Georgia Secondary Schools." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC, 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011. <http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/profi les/pdf/facts/ga_selected_profi les.pdf>.

"My Plate." United States Department of Agriculture. United States Department of Agriculture, 30 Sep 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011. <http://www.choosemyplate.gov/>.

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