Tweens & Teens
Ways To Be Food Smart!
| To keep you healthy make smart food choices and have a positive relationship with food. Here are steps to take: |
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- Make healthy food choices. If you have trouble finding healthy foods around your home, have a talk with your parents and ask that there be things like fruits and vegetables to choose as a snack. Help to make them easy to select by cleaning them and getting them ready to eat so you can grab them when in a hurry.
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- Don’t restrict yourself from eating any one particular food. There is no such thing as “good” food and “bad” food. Moderation and variety in the kinds of foods you eat are the keys to a good healthy diet.
- Set goals for yourself to ensure that you eat healthy foods. For example: I will eat at least two fruit or vegetable snacks per day. When you reach your goal, don’t reward yourself with food. Find some other reward that makes you feel good.
- Try to encourage your family to eat at least one meal together a week. Even more often, if possible.
- Use your own self control and watch your portion sizes. If you don’t know what a portion size of a specific food is for you, do some research and find out. More information
- If you really want to learn to make smarter food choices, remember it is a gradual change. But when you are food smart you are learning ways to keep yourself healthy for a lifetime.
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Healthy Tip:
Losing weight and keeping it off is a lifetime commitment. Fad diets can rob you of iron, calcium and other essential nutrients. Weight loss pills and other quick fixes can pose a risk. A weight loss using these means is often short-lived. You need to permanently change your habits to lose weight and to keep the weight from returning. |
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