Making Healthy Choices

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Making Healthy Choices

• By Justin

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Today you are going to learn about

• Choosing healthy foods while eating out
• How to choose healthy convenience foods
• How to make healthy snacks

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Choosing healthy food while eating out
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Choosing healthy food while eating out

• Fast food meals are high in calories, sodium fat
  and lack vitamins and minerals.
• Restaurant meals include too much fat salt,
  sugar, and portions always larger than normal.

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Choosing healthy food while eating out

• Look on the websites for nutritional food
• Easier avoid less nutrition's, higher calories
• Ranch dressing at McDonald's is 170 calories and
  a large cola has 310 calories

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Choosing healthy food while eating out

• Soda is highly calories not nutritious for kids
  instead have milk or water
• Avoid chicken nuggets and fried nuggets are sorry
  imposter of real chicken
• Avoid buffets, dont be a afraid of special
  order, watch of portion size, share, and order
  sauce and dressing on the side
• Fried food, large portion beef, and desserts are
  high in fat

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Choosing healthy convenience snacks

• Convenience foods are prepared foods that are
  often high in fat and sodium (salt).
• Some examples of convenience foods are frozen TV
  dinners and lunchables.
• Preservatives are used to keep these foods from
  spoiling.
• All the fat, sugar and salts found in these
  convenience foods are not nutritious.

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Choosing healthy convenience snacks

• You can choose healthy convenience foods by
  looking at the food label and reading the
  nutrition facts.
• Food labels tell you the amount of calories,
  serving size, carbohydrates, sodium, protein,
  sugar, vitamins and minerals in the food.
• You should compare foods by looking at their
  labels and choose the one that is healthier for
  you.

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Making healthy snacks

• Do you think snacking means eating candy, chowing
  down chips, or munching marshmallows? A lot of
  people think snacks means food that arent
  nutritious. Snacks can be healthy too! Healthy
  snacks help you be healthy, give you energy and
  make you strong.

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Making healthy snacks

• Kids should refuel their bodies three times a
  day.
• Oranges will give you Vitamin C and tons of
  energy.
• Avoid high sugar, high fat snacks because they
  wont keep you satisfied.
• Some great snack choices are fruit, yogurt and
  vegetables.
• Some super snack recipes are tiny pizzas and ants
  on a log.

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The End
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References

• Your Health textbook
• 1999 Harcourt Brace publishers
• New York, Pages 169 and 166
• Donze Black, Jessica. When Snack Attacks
  Strike. http//kidshealth.org 4/30/07
• Kemp, Gine and Segal, Robert. Healthy Fast
  Food Healthy Restaurant Eating.
  http//www.helpguide.org/life/fast_foodnutition.ht
  m 4/30/07