4 steps to healthier eating - New Food Pyramid

Trading poor eating habits for healthy ones is easier if it's done in
steps, notes Sue Kamien, a public health nutritionist with Outagamie
County. Here are some beginning steps she suggests:

# Make half your fiber come from whole grains. If kids balk at eating
whole grain bread with their sandwiches, use white for the top half and
whole grain bread for the bottom half.

# Read labels so you're sure of what you're getting. Look for whole
grain to be the first ingredient in your bread.

# Skim milk is recommended for everyone over 2 years of age. If
you're drinking whole milk now, go down gradually, to two percent,
one percent and then skim milk.

# An easy way to make sure you're eating enough fruits and vegetables
is to consider how the food groups look on your plate. Half your plate
should be fruits and vegetables, and two-thirds of the other half
should be grains. The remaining portion is for protein food.

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"Healthyeating" wrote in
ups.com:

# Skim milk is recommended for everyone over 2 years of age. If
you're drinking whole milk now, go down gradually, to two percent,
one percent and then skim milk.

That may be good advice for adults but I would debate thet recommmendation
applies to everyoone above 2 years of age.

Plus have you noticed, as you go down in fat, you go up in sugar? So you
trade fat for sugar. Just something I've seen in two different brands of
non-fat milks ("Lehigh" and "TJ's Non-fat").

Andy

"Healthyeating" wrote in
ups.com:

# An easy way to make sure you're eating enough fruits and vegetables
is to consider how the food groups look on your plate. Half your plate
should be fruits and vegetables, and two-thirds of the other half
should be grains. The remaining portion is for protein food.


That sounds nice and such but vegetables while tasty are not calorie dense.
You have to eat A LOT of veggies to meet an 2000 caloric daily intake. You
get good nutrients from veggies but depending on how you prepare them, the
nutrients can slip right out of sight, i.e. steamed vs. boiled is better.
More nutrients in scrubbed, not peeled carrots. (Grandma always said you
have to eat a pound of dirt before you die. [took her 104 years]).

Andy

Oops...meant to post this site for reference:

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weekl...w_fat_milk.htm





Beverly wrote:
Andy wrote:
"Healthyeating" wrote in
ups.com:

# Skim milk is recommended for everyone over 2 years of age. If
you're drinking whole milk now, go down gradually, to two percent,
one percent and then skim milk.

That may be good advice for adults but I would debate thet recommmendation
applies to everyoone above 2 years of age.

Plus have you noticed, as you go down in fat, you go up in sugar? So you
trade fat for sugar. Just something I've seen in two different brands of
non-fat milks ("Lehigh" and "TJ's Non-fat").

Andy

You probably need to make this determination based on the child's
particular needs but the American Academy of Pediatrics does recommend
changing to lower fat milk beginning at age 2.

My kid's were switched to 1% milk around this time. None of them will
drink skim except the one who still lives at home with me - she doesn't
have a choice since it's all I buy

Beverly

"Beverly" wrote in
ups.com:

Oops...meant to post this site for reference:

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weekl...w_fat_milk.htm


Beverly,

I see your point and in a perfect world that would be sound advice. But
where are the milky-milk boxes for your child's lunch box.

Who here taught me, an apple is more nutrious than apple sauce??

Not to present an argument, you understand.

I only recall the halloween kids as infants that walk up my hill from
school 12 years later are now fat and I don't know how that happened.

It's just soda and lazy parents, I guess.

Having no children, I'm only guessing.

All the best,

Andy


Beverly wrote:
Andy wrote:
"Healthyeating" wrote in
ups.com:

# Skim milk is recommended for everyone over 2 years of age. If
you're drinking whole milk now, go down gradually, to two
percent, one percent and then skim milk.

That may be good advice for adults but I would debate thet
recommmendation applies to everyoone above 2 years of age.

Plus have you noticed, as you go down in fat, you go up in sugar?
So you trade fat for sugar. Just something I've seen in two
different brands of non-fat milks ("Lehigh" and "TJ's Non-fat").

Andy

You probably need to make this determination based on the child's
particular needs but the American Academy of Pediatrics does
recommend changing to lower fat milk beginning at age 2.

My kid's were switched to 1% milk around this time. None of them
will drink skim except the one who still lives at home with me - she
doesn't have a choice since it's all I buy

Beverly

In article . com,
Healthyeating wrote:

Trading poor eating habits for healthy ones is easier if it's done in
steps, notes Sue Kamien, a public health nutritionist with Outagamie
County. Here are some beginning steps she suggests:

# Make half your fiber come from whole grains.

That won't work for me. I am restricted from eating any grains.

Diva
celiac disease six years