Nutrition & Wellness - Biology 50 » Healthy Eating http://nutrition.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:34:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Healthier Alternatives for Children – From Eat This Not That for Kids http://nutrition.edublogs.org/2009/09/21/healthier-food-alternatives-for-children/ http://nutrition.edublogs.org/2009/09/21/healthier-food-alternatives-for-children/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:02:54 +0000 Dr.Dyer http://nutrition.edublogs.org/?p=177 Matt Lauer of the Today Show interviews David Zinczenko of Eat This Not That to show parents how to help children make healthier choices when it come to meal and snack time.

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Eat This Not That! for Kids is one of the books I have gotten for my daughters written to teach you how to be the leanest family on the block.

My daughters enjoy going through the book and discovering that many of the foods we are eating are in the “eat this” category and not in the “not that” category. They keep searching for more healthy options from the “eat this” list to add to what we purchase at the store, or health options for eating out.
Eat This Not That! for Kids is available on Amazon.

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The presentation has gotten a lot of views and downloads, but not a lot of votes for the contest.

Be Healthy 4 Life

This presentation was developed as a patient and student education resource for younger students, high school students, college students and adult patients. In the presentation the common steps that people should follow to life a healthy life are included.

More Information:
Dyer K. Be Healthy 4 Life. Squidoo.com

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Michelle Obama shared her thoughts on the garden:

We want to use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it is to eat fresh food, and how you can take that food and make it part of a healthy diet.

Michelle Obama

This video shows twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on a produce and herb garden on the White House grounds.

Michael Pollen, author of Omnivores Dilemma and advocate for agricultural reform had this to say about the garden.

A garden like this is one of those small gestures that is powerfully symbolic…it teaches important habits of mind — helping people to reconnect with their food, eat more healthily on a budget and recognize that we’re less dependent on the industrial food chain, and cheap fossil fuel, than we assume.

Sources:

Barrett K, Hartman B. March 20, 2009. Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden: Obama’s Shovel-Ready Project Nurtures the Sustainable Food Movement Amid Some Criticism. Abc News.

Stanglin D. March 20, 2009. First lady breaks ground on White House veggie garden. USA Today.

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