It's All About Nutrition!

Eating Healthy As We Grow Older

In the below video Brenda Walsh, an outpatient clinical dietician discusses ways of eating healthy as we grow older.

Making sure to have 3 servings of a fortified dairy product daily and 2 servings of a fatty fish such as salmon every week will supply the required amount of calcium and vitamin D.

Although balanced supplements such as Boost and Ensure can be beneficial they should not be used as a meal replacement.

Brenda also discusses the importance of variety in your diet specifically in relation to vegetables. The more colors of vegetables you consume the more likely you are of getting the proper balance of vitamins and minerals you need.

How to Provide Healthy School Lunches

Many caregivers struggle to provide children with healthy school lunches.

Good news is that there are some things you can do to at least try and make that perfect nutritious lunch.

The video below discusses some ideas you can use to create those healthy school lunches including adding basics such as calcium, fruit, whole grains and lean protein.

Healthy Kids Snacks for After School

Providing healthy kids snacks for after school time can be a real challenge for parents. Many children head straight for the refrigerator or cabinets soon after they return from school. One way to help prevent kids from eating unhealthy snacks is to prepare and plan healthy kids snacks for after school and make sure it is well known what is aceptable to eat and what is not.

The below video gives some helpful tips for dealing with after school snacking.

Articles About Nutrition and Health

I was reading some health articles about nutrition and health on the MSN website and found a couple I thought you might be interested in.

One of the articles is titled Avoiding Mercury in Fish and answers the following questions…

What is mercury?

Do you need to avoid the mercury found in fish?

How should you change your eating habits to reduce your exposure to mercury in fish?

Should a woman who is not planning a pregnancy be concerned?

You will also find some links to additional related resources

You can read the full article HERE

The other article is titled New Facts About Fish and answers the following questions…

I’m worried about mercury contamination. Should I skip fish altogether?

Which fish is healthier: farm-raised or wild?

What are some easy ways to eat more fish?

What’s safest for our oceans — and for you, when it comes to mercury and PCBs?

You can read the full article HERE

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Food Additives to Avoid

I just read an article about what food additives to avoid and thought the information was valuable enough to pass on to you. It was written by Jean Weiss for MSN Health & Fitness.

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Whoever coined the term food additives had it all wrong. Including something new in a food doesn’t always add up to more, at least when it comes to your health. Studies that test the safety of additives are based on animal trials. It is difficult to deduce whether the results of an animal study equate to human health, though many of these studies show that some additives could be cancer-causing. Read the full article here