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Healthy Food at school

(In Chile)

Do you know how is the eating habits in your country? Do you know what type of food eat the child's at school? Well here I show you the statistics from the obesity in Chile.

Healthy foods at school is a problem today in Chile. According to Ocde Chile is the 6th country with more infant obesity around the ages of 5 and 17 in the world! This is because the kids today are in they house playing video games and they don't play much at the parks or playing football or play any games outdoor. Another thing why the children are obese is for poor eating habits, more of the kids do not eat fruit and vegetables they prefer the junk food cause it is more “delicious” but this type of food is the responsible of this obesity. The last but not least thing is that in the schools of the country don't practice so much sport and sold so much junk food is sold.

In my opinion the parents need to control their children and demand the school to do more exercise and remove the junk food from the kiosk and vending machines, but always the child has to do his part, they can play outside and less time playing videogames or in the computer, they also eat fruits and snack and vegetable, at lunch eat junk food sometimes like 1 or 2 pieces per week,it is more than enough. So..... what are you looking at this, go and play at the park with your friends!

Source: La tercera newspaper of Chile.

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Healthy food in schools:

¿Do you know that a healthy eating can prevent the obesity, diabetes and type 2 heart disease?

“You already know the importance of eating healthy, you know good nutrition and daily physical activity helps school aged children stay healthy.”

“In 2006, school food guidelines were developed as a part of Healthy Student Healthy School to create a supportive environment for healthy eating”.

The school food Guidelines include a detailed list of food and beverages that can be sold and served in your school.

Food allergies; some schools may have food restrictions if there is a student with a life-threatening food allergy. The health nurse can also provide advice on maintaining an “allergy aware” environment.

In Canada the Canada´s Food Guide encourages people to choose foods lower fat, sugar and salt, using this guide you can create healthy menus for breakfast, lunch,dinner and snack time.

Canada´s Food Guide recommends limiting foods and beverages that are high in calories,fat,sugar or salt, because these foods provide fewer of the nutrients needed for growth and development and can fill a child's stomach so they do not have room for the nutritious foods they needed.

Serving size; a food guide serving is a reference amount of food, it helps you understand how much food is recommended every day from each of the four food groups (the number of servings needed each day depends on age,body size,activity level and gender) in some cases a food guide serving may be close to what you eat, like an apple, you may serve yourself more than one food guide serving. Using the school food guidelines is a great way to provide healthy choices in schools, for more information about why foods have to be in the different categories of serving more or serving moderately if you like this information click here.

Foods not included; candies,gum,instant noodles,energy drinks,etc. These foods are not found in Canada's food guide and are generally low in nutrients and may be high in fat,sugar,salt,caffeine and calories.

Energy drinks: Do you know what are energy drinks ? Energy drinks are beverages that contain high amounts of caffeine, it may be listed as caffeine,guarana.or yerba mate on the label.Why energy drinks not be sold in schools? Because student who drinks them may have trouble concentrating in class.

healthy choices for sports: vegetables,fruit,wraps,natural juices, etc.These are some snacks to consider for school events.

Snacks: snack are an important part of what the child eats in a day and should be as nourishing as the foods offered for schools breakfast and lunch.Many of the extra calories in the snacks come from added fat.

All these information and more are taken from here