Nutritional Tips

Research shows that if you eat together as a family, it helps children eat less junk food and more fruits and vegetables.

Replace white stuff with the brown stuff…brown rice, whole wheat bread (without corn syrup as an ingredient), whole wheat pasta.

Read the ingredient labels on food packages and choose foods with “whole” in the grain or flour name of the first 3 ingredients.

Add a green vegetable to dinner every night.

Snack right by eating an apple, banana, or strawberries at snack time

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Celebrating Success: Healthier Beverages in Schools PDF Print E-mail

Recently, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation announced the final results of an independent third-party study to analyze the affect of the Alliance School Beverage Guidelines.  The results are promising.

  • There has been an 88 percent decrease in total beverage calories shipped to schools between the first half of the 2004-05 school year and the first half of the 2009-10 school year.
  • At the beginning of the 2009-10 school year, 98.8% of all measured schools and school districts were in compliance with the Alliance School Beverage Guidelines.
  • Shipment volumes of full-calorie carbonated soft drinks to schools were 95 percent lower in the first half of the 2009-10 school year than they were in the first half of the 2004-05 school year, before the Guidelines went into effect.
  • In 2004 high school students drank on average one 12 ounce can of full calorie carbonated soft drink at school per week. The current high school shipment levels mean that the average high school student now consumes the equivalent of one can and a half of full calorie carbonated soft drink at school per year.

This announcement is just one step forward to building a healthier generation. There is no single cause to the childhood obesity epidemic and no single solution. That is why the Alliance works across the board – with schools, healthcare, industry, families, communities, and kids, themselves - to make physical activity and healthy eating easy for kids to access.

For more information on the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, visit www.HealthierGeneration.org