1. Kayla Ariail Yasmeen Pitts NUTRITION

2.  In Georgia, there are only 40.7% of schools that require their students to take 2 or more health education courses.  About 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 are obese.  Strategies for parents:  Make sure your child gets physical activity every day  Serve water instead of sugar drinks to your family  Serve healthier foods at dinner. Give plenty of fruits and vegetable and less foods that are high in fats and sugars  Limit your kids to 1-2 hours of media per day

3.  Strategies for communities:  Put salad bars in schools  Create and maintain safe neighborhoods and create improved ways to parks and playgrounds for kids to have physical activity  Expand programs that bring local fruits and vegetables to schools

4.  Dairy  2-3 servings  Proteins  2-3 servings  Vegetables  3-5 servings  Fruits  2-4 servings  Grains  6-11 servings  Make at least half of those grains whole grains

5. FOOD PYRAMID

6.  Calories:  40 calories is low  100 calories is moderate  400 or more calories is high  Eating too many calories is linked to being overweight and obesity  Limit intake on Total Fat, Cholesterol, and Sodium  Get enough Vitamin A and C, Calcium, and Iron  Percent Daily Value:  5% or less is low for nutrients  20% or more is high for nutrients  Each nutrients on the %DV scale is out of 100% so you are able to see which is giving more nutrients NUTRITION FACTS LABELS

7.  "How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label." U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA, 31 Oct 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011. <http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/NFLPM/uc m274593.htm  "Strategies and Solutions." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC, 21 Apr 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011..  "Georgia Secondary Schools." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC, 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011..  "My Plate." United States Department of Agriculture. United States Department of Agriculture, 30 Sep 2011. Web. 6 Nov 2011.. REFERENCES