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| California's Child Obesity and Overweight Rate Down by 1% |
California's Child Obesity and Overweight Rate Down by 1%The rate of overweight and obese children increased in many California counties from 2005 to 2010, but the state's overall rate of overweight and obese children fell slightly, according to a study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.
Researchers based the study on data collected in the California Physical Fitness Test given to students attending public
Between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of overweight and obese children in the fifth, seventh and ninth grades fell by about 1% in California, the study found. Even so, the study found that 38% of children in those grades were overweight or obese.
One of the ways to create healthy eating habits for your kids is by packing nutritious school lunches that aren’t only good for your children, but they taste good too! However, making healthy lunches everyday can be difficult. Below are some helpful hints for lunches your kids will want to eat
Try some of these ideas:• Pack lunches the night before to save time in the morning.
• Use leftovers! When cooking dinner, make extra food to pack in your child’s lunchbox for the following day.
• Get help making lunches from the kids! Even your littlest ones can help by putting carrots into a container or filling a water bottle.
• Be sure to have fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains foods. These foods are high in fiber and a variety of vitamins and minerals that not only provide good nutrition for your children, but they even help lower the risk of diseases such as diabetes.
• Make healthy snacks, such as a trail mix with cereals, nuts (for older, non-allergic children), pretzels dried fruit or raisins, and a few chocolate morsels.
What to Pack?Here are some healthy lunch-packing suggestions your children will love:
• Wraps made with whole-wheat tortillas, and lean cold cuts or low fat cream cheese and veggie slices. Even the classic peanut butter and jelly is healthier in a wheat wrap.
• Healthy Hotdogs – wrap a string-cheese mozzarella stick with 1 or 2 slices of lean ham or turkey then place in a whole-wheat hotdog bun – garnish with ketchup and mustard!
• Healthy Pizza – spread tomato or pizza sauce on a tortilla, and sprinkle with reduced-fat shredded cheese. Add chopped turkey pepperoni or ham and veggies. Roll like a burrito, and cut in half!
• Single portion-sized cups of unsweetened applesauce or fruit without added sugar.
• Baked chips or pretzels instead of high-fat potato chips or cheese snacks.
• Drinks made from water and a splash of cranberry, peach, grape or other fruit juices are healthier than sodas. Drinking only pure sugar juices can increase the risk of becoming overweight.
• Limit sweets. In addition to the higher risk of obesity, a diet high in sugar has been linked to diabetes and heart disease.
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