2. Lauren Creel Audience: Elementary school students who are growing and need to know the importance of nutrition and what it includes

3.  Vegetables  Grains  Fruits  Oils, Fats, and sweets  Milk and other calcium-rich foods  Meats, beans, fish, and nuts

4.  Staying active is key!  Little things such as playing in the park with friends can help keep you in shape.  In order to be fit and healthy, its important to combine exercise with proper nutrition.

5.  Vegetables include:  Any vegetable or 100% vegetable juice counts as a member of the vegetable group.  Vegetables may be raw or cooked; fresh, frozen, canned, or dried/dehydrated; and may be whole, cut-up, or mashed.

6. *Dark Green Vegetables Collard greens, spinach, and romaine lettuce * Orange vegetables Pumpkin Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, and pumpkin * Dry Beans and Peas White beans, soy beans, spilt peas *Starchy vegetables Corn, green beans, and potatoes *Other vegetables Eggplants, mushrooms, beets, cabbage, onions, okra, zucchini, wax beans, and iceberg lettuce

7.  Grains are food made from wheat, oats, and rice.

8. White BreadWheat Bread!

9.  Any fruit or 100 % fruit juice counts as part of the fruit group.  Fruits may be fresh, canned, frozen, or dried, and may be whole, cut-up, or pureed.

10.  Apple  Apricot  Banana  Blackberry  Blueberry  Kiwi  Red Grapefruit  Muskmelon  Cherry  Purple Grape The Top Ten Healthiest Fruits to Promote Optimum Health…

11.  Milk Group includes:  Food that retain their calcium content  Choosing fat-free and low-fat can make a difference!  There are different kinds of milk including soy milk, skim milk, 1% milk, 2% milk, and whole milk

12.  Foods made from milk that retain their calcium content are part of the Most milk group choices should be fat-free or low-fat part group.  Foods made from milk that have little to no calcium, such as cream cheese, cream, and butter, are not.

13.  All Milk* types of milk: fat-free (skim) low fat (1%) reduced fat (2%) whole milk  flavored milks: chocolate strawberry  lactose reduced milks lactose free milks  Milk-based desserts* Puddings made with milk ice milk frozen yogurt ice cream  Cheese* Hard natural cheeses: cheddar mozzarella Swiss parmesan  soft cheeses: ricotta cottage cheese  processed cheeses: American  Yogurt* All yogurt Fat-free low fat reduced fat whole milk yogurt Got Milk ?

14.  All Foods made from:  meat, poultry, fish, dry beans or peas, eggs, nuts, and seeds are considered part of this group.  Most meat choices should be lean and low-fat.

15.  Meats  beef ham lamb pork veal  Pork lamb  Poultry chicken duck goose turkey ground chicken and turkey  Eggs chicken eggs duck eggs  Dry beans and peas: black beans black-eyed peas chickpeas (garbanzo beans) falafel kidney beans lentils lima beans (mature) navy beans pinto beans soy beans split peas white beans

16.  Oils are fats that are liquid at room temperature, like the vegetable oils used in cooking. Oils come from many different plants and from fish.  A few plant oils, however, including coconut oil and palm kernel oil, are high in saturated fats and for nutritional purposes should be considered to be solid fats.  Solid fats come from many animal foods and can be made from vegetable oils through a process called hydrogenation.  Some oils are used mainly as flavorings, such as walnut oil and sesame oil.

17.  Some common oils are:  canola oil corn oil cottonseed oil olive oil safflower oil soybean oil sunflower oil  A number of foods are naturally high in oils, like:  nuts olives some fish avocados  Some common solid fats are:  butter beef fat (tallow, suet) chicken fat pork fat (lard) stick margarine shortening

18.  Physical activity- movement of the body that uses energy  Benefits of physical activity may include:  Improves self-esteem and feelings of well- being  Increases fitness level  Helps build and maintain bones, muscles, and joints  Helps manage weight

19.  Walking, running, bike riding, jump rope, hopscotch, soccer, basketball, football, dodge ball, yoga, pilates, etc.

20. Vegetables: 3-5 Grains: 6-11 Fruits: 2-5 Milk and other Calcium Rich Foods: 2-3 Oil, Fats, Sweets: use sparingly Meat, Beans, Nuts: 2-3

21.  Follow the food pyramid as best you can  Try to eat as many servings as directed each day  Each group provides several different options  Exercise combined with proper nutrition leads to a healthy lifestyle  Exercising can be fun and should be done every day  The littlest things such as taking the stairs, or walking rather than driving can make a difference