Healthy Eating Week Presentation By The School Council

1. Healthy Eating Week Presentation By The School Council

2. This Week is National Healthy Eating WeekWhy Eat Well? To provide the nutrients that your body needs to make new cells, clean out toxins and to just function every day! To maintain fitness and a healthy weight. To Avoid, Prevent or Control Disease and Illness Such as diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure Like Science? Love food. Click the link to see how molecular science can be used in the kitchen to jazz up your food. http://www.youtube.com/user/MoleculeRflavors?v=JRpEpQPULNI ALMOST A THIRD OF UK PRIMARY PUPILS THINK CHEESE IS MADE FROM PLANTS AND A QUARTER THINK FISH FINGERS COME FROM CHICKEN OR PIGS, SUGGESTS A SURVEY. Do you know where your food comes from?

3. be active! be active!Are you fit and doing activities? • You could do some of these every day: • skipping • rounders • tennis • netball • football • throwing and catching • hula hooping • running • swimming Remember to do activities every day to keep fit! Don’t do activities because you have to, do it for fun!

4. EAT CARBAHYDRATES Pasta, Potatoes, Rice Bread are all carbohydrates and you need them to give you energy. They also provide nutrients to the friendly bacteria in your body. There are two types of carbs. - simple and complex. Natural complex carbs. are in starchy foods such as bananas, beans and wholemeal pasta. Simple carbs. Are known as Sugars! These are found in Jellies, Pizza, sweets. Simple carbohydrates (sugar) cause tooth decay! So make sure you choose more complex carbohydrates than simple!

5. DAIRY DAIRY Milk gives you strong bones. 99% of calcium is stored in your bones. Some dairy can be really yummy like: chocolate (but not too much), Frubes, macaroni cheese, Hot chocolate How Much Calcium Do We need? Kids ages 1-3 need 500 mg of calcium a day, or about two 8-oz. glasses of milk Kids ages 4-8 need 800 mg of calcium a day, or about three 8-oz. glasses of milk Teens ages 9-18 need 1,300 mg of calcium a day, or about four 8-oz. glasses of milk Adults ages 19-50 need 1,000 mg of calcium a day, or at least three 8-oz. glasses of milk Adults over the age of 50 need 1,200 mg of calcium a day, or four 8-oz. glasses of milk Calcium helps the muscles of your heart contract causing your heart to pump blood round your body.

6. s Drinking prevents you from de hydrating. If you do not drink you will become ill. There are two types of bottled water, spring water and mineral water. Spring water is collected directly from the spring and mineral water emerges from under the ground where it has flowed over rocks and is therefore high in mineral content DRINK UP ! A 780 million people lack access to improved drinking water supplies and 2.5 billion people — half of the developing world — lack access to adequate sanitation.

7. Make sure you have a healthy break fast every day! It is necessary to include one of your 5-a-day.You may often see this on food products. Breakfast is crucial because without breakfast, people can get irritable, restless, and tired. Breakfast is truly the most important meal of the day! Eat Breakfast! Most cereals (weetabix) have a sign on the back reading slow release energy; this means the cereal gives energy through out the day not straight away. Unlike sweet products After eight hours without food, breaking-the-fast is important to get your body and brain functioning properly in the morning

8. FRUIT AND VEG by Joel Nugent • Fruit and veg are very healthy. They help ward off infections. They also have lots of minerals! Here’s a fruity fact: all fruit have seeds! They are also part of the five - a- day. Also many fruit and veg can be made into crumble! And a falling apple gave sir Isaac Newton his theory of Gravity! Here is a recipe for rhubarb crumble10 sticks of rhubarb • 4 tbsp water • 8 tbsp caster sugar • 110g/4oz butter, softened • 110g/4oz demerara sugar • 180-200g/6-7oz flour • To serve • double cream • Preparation method • Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. • Cut the rhubarb into 7½cm/3in long sticks and place on an oven tray, sprinkle with the water and caster sugar and roast in the oven for 10 minutes. • Once cooked, remove from the oven • Fill an ovenproof dish about 4cm/1½in deep with the rhubarb. • Rub the butter into the flour and sugar to make the crumble topping. Sprinkle over the rhubarb and bake in the oven for 35-45 minutes, or until the crumble topping is crisp and golden-brown and the rhubarb filling has softened and is bubbling. • Remove and allow to cool slightly before serving with double cream

9. Get Cooking! • Reasons to cook your own food: • You know exactly what is in your food. • It is more fun! • Cooking is an important life skill. • You can impress your friends by saying “I cooked that!”

10. HEATH FOR LIFE Why we need to eat healthy • It helps to improve their concentration, learning and behaviour. • Promotes proper physical growth and development. • Builds up our strength. • Promotes resistance to infection. • Gives plenty of energy. healthy eating week!!!!!!!!