Current Event News for Childhood Obesity Prevention
Current changes to Kids Eating Out Menue
Current Event News for Childhood Obesity Prevention
America’s First Lady Michelle Obama, continues her fight to childhood obesity prevention. Working on her message she introduced the food pyramid for kids when she introduced food guide pyramid and in an effort to reduce unhealthy eating out. Now on Sept15, 2011 she worked a similar deal with Red Lobster, Olive Garden Restaurant and some other food restaurants chains.
These restaurant will go on a reformed healthy food plan to completely change their recipes to low sodium recipes, and healthy low fat recipes gradually starting from now for kids and adults both. These chains will provide healthier options for children.
According to the statistics eating out has become an every day activity and 50 % of the total money spent on food is spent in restaurants and therefore, this change will change the situation for extra fats and sodium intake to 50 % less. There will be similar reduction digested in the food calories of eating out and therefore, less overweight children and least obesity can result easily.
The best strategy of this action is amazing. No one is changing their eating habit, and activity trends. Business for restaurants stays the same, only calories fats and sodium, the three factors that were spoiling the health of the nation will be reduced. I am impressed with this change and I feel that first lady have not only done something remarkable for the children but for the nation as a whole.
Michele Obama explained this at one of the Olive Gardens in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Here are the basic strategies that were presented for Childhood Obesity yesterday:
1. Participate in this National Challenge
First lady requested every food restaurant to fight childhood Obesity, as it is national call and every child will benefit with this.
2. Parents to speak up for healthy options
When children and parent are eating out speak up about healthy choices and encourage the restaurants for switching to a better choice.
3. Substitute all sugary drinks to 100% fruit juice for kids
Really a great idea. I appreciate her solid thinking for health and nutrition for kids. This will reduce Diabetes 2 and Obesity both.
4. Offer a side vegetable with every kids meal
Those restaurants that serve entrée for the kids have to make sure there is one vegetable on the side. Red Lobster, and few other restaurants are doing it right now.
5. 1% milk to be served automatically with meals
One percent milk is to be the drink with all the planned kids meals provided automatically. Children growing up need it and it will avoid extra load of sugar.
6. Promote healthy kids menu on the top.
Kids menus will promote healthy menus on the top, so healthy selection is automatically made by the child or the parent. This is actually a health food plan that will keep the temptation to the bottom.
7. Don’t add carbonated soft drinks in kids menu
Carbonated soft drinks will not be displayed in kids menu.
8. The total calories for kids menu and how many from fat
A kid meal should not have more than 600 total calories out of which 30 % can be total fats calories. Saturated fats and unsaturated fats are not to be used on equal basis, only 10 % saturated fat is to be used out of every 30 % if a recipe requires. Low sodium recipes is the key to cooking for healthy meals. Sodium is not to exceed more than 600mg.
Parents, Please promote these restaurants that are coming with healthier menus for children. As this is going to help our children.
I Personally admire First Lady’s focus to find such a health plan and as you see this is the beginning. I am over whelmed with all these healthy changes for kids meal ideas. Children will change their eating habit to most healthy food.
Please add your opinions in your comments and let me know how you feel about it.
To the future of our healthy nation.
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Hi Fran,
I think this is a good initiative to fight childhood obesity. If obesity is dealt with during childhood, maybe our nation will have the high obesity rate.
Hi Evelyn
I feel the same Evelyn. I have lived with children on a professional basis for lots and lots of years, and the last 15 years when I had my day care were very educative to learn about children. So, I do feel and connect with children. Now this year when I saw the first lady following the same issue, I studied every step and felt how she has smart thinking, I fell for her theories. The more I look into our health system, the more depressed I get. But Now I am hoping for our coming generations to be health smart. You are an example too. Take good care of yourself.
Fran A
Fran A
This is a good thoughts by First Lady Michelle Obama, obesity is one big problem in our human raise.
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Hi Vilma:
Thanks for reading the post and writing a comment. Fran A
This i a good initiative fighting childhood obesity.Some people are feeling overweight but child obesity are increasing thank for thank you for sharing this informative article.
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Appreciate your comment. Fran A
Really a very good article, also your blog’s design looks awesome, keep it up blogging.
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Thanks for reading the post and writing a comment. Fran A
Oh, I remember the 4 food groups from back in the day, but I thought we transitioned to the food pyramid.
Good suggestion about the cutting out sugar drinks. I have read that sugar lowers your immune system.
-Kayla
Hi Kayla:
Thanks for reading the post and writing a comment. You seems to have optimal health, as you are aware of benefits of maintaining healthy weight. Keep up.
Fran A
I think it’s sad that we have to count calories even for childrens’ meals, but it is definitely something we should start looking at. I’ve seen more and more kids dealing with obesity lately and I don’t have any of my own but I’ll definitely pass this info along!
Hi Rose
Thanks for such an awesome comment. I thank you for passing this information to others.
Make it great for yourself….Fran A
Fran – these are all great tips, thank you. Don’t you think kids AND adults alike could benefit from doing all of this, though?
Hi Lizzy:
Humans are alike. Once I am adressing the kids mothers get interested and read this information to enforce fot the kids and of course the family. Thanks for pointing this out
Fran A
Good news indeed! Having a kid menu is a very brilliant plan from the first lady. Also, this does not only benefit the kids but also the adults as well. A lot of adults are suffering from illnesses and diseases caused by obesity. Going back to kids, I believe this can make a great impact to the reduction of child obesity cases here and around the world (if this will spread).
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Tim
I loved First lady’s approach. This is easy to folow by every family and mother and fathers. It is easy to understand and I like how she is changing eating out, food
“Offer a side vegetable with every kids meal” – Vegetable is very important part of a kid’s meal so it’s important for parents to add some healthy veggies in their meal. But the only problem if parents can force their children to eat the veggies. So all moms’ techniques are valuable, like for example, mashing of potatoes then add it to ground beef or pork in order to make a burger patty. Stuffs like that…. Creativity of parents is needed.
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I agree with you Maria, vegetable is very important with every meal, but also as a snack too, now even stores are selling veges snack packs. Where I live they sell carrots in snack size pouch and it has only 15 calories total in the package, where as it has a lot of bite to make one feel the feeling to eat. Thanks for visiting and hope to see you again. Fran A
Hi Maria:
I did visit your site yesterday and today, but I am not sure if you got my comments. In case you did not please see your spam folder and bring my comment with the rest of your comments. Or may be your blog is set up this way. Let me know with. thanks. Fran A
Same here. Some snacks here are made out of vegetables so its pretty healthy to kids. Like what I’ve said, it’s just a matter of creativity for moms, parents. I’ll check your comment in my blog. Thanks for visiting my blog!
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Maria:
Visiting your blog was a pleasure as I love reading new topics and information, as it widens my vision and knowledge, provided conversation topics and keep me away from gossip. I will keep visiting your blog now on a constant basie to know more about coaching so I may pass it to my social circle.
You are right about snakes that consists of vegetables, and raw veges are just excellent so many vitamins and no fats. I like giving full size peeled carrots to toddlers, they can suck and chew on itand will eventually start like it as cooked and raw carrots when it is the right time. Thanks for reading the post and writing a comment.
Hi Maria
I did leave two comments today on your blog, One post was CNA in UK and the other was COST OF CNA. I hope you get to see those. Fran A
First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort for fighting childhood obesity is so inspiring. I love her because she has really a big heart.
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Great content! I really am very interested to know more about childhood obesity.. I niece are very fat and I want her to loss weight.. Thanks for this info!
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all researchers agree that prevention could be the key strategy for controlling the current epidemic of obesity.
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Thanks Olivia for your input, and I agree with you 100%. Fran A
I definetly recommend your information! Thanks
Trevor thank you, You have added mor joy to me new year Eve’s Joy. Have a goal oriented and successful year.
I live in upstate NY and there are so many kids that are “chubby”. But these are the same kids that I see crying because they can’t go to mcdonalds for a second time in the day!!
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Christopher your observation is right about MCdonalds attraction for these so called cubby kids. It is the promotion of the product and their food obcession together. We as a society have to change this image. Our grocery stores and fast food need to change if we want to change our high cost of medical insurance and affordability by everyone. Fran A
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