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L.E.A.P. For your health. L.E.A.P. to your Health. Learn about your health Exercise for your health Act for a healthy life Plan ahead for your health. Learn about your health. Nutrition Food safety. Nutrition. The food pyramid. Learn about your health. Nutrition
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L.E.A.P. For your health
L.E.A.P. to your Health • Learn about your health • Exercise for your health • Act for a healthy life • Plan ahead for your health
Learn about your health • Nutrition • Food safety
Nutrition The food pyramid.
Learn about your health • Nutrition • Eat together with your family as much as possible. • Buy many different types of foods, especially fruits, vegetables, breads and cereals. • Set special times for meals and snacks. • Try not to have too many foods with sugar and fat. • Try not to use too much salt in your food. • Drink a lot of water or milk
Website • http://147.208.9.133/Default.asp
Food Safety Keep our food safe by choice and cleanliness.
Food Safety • Food safety is important because it helps keep us from getting sick from the food we eat. • Some diseases that can come from our food are: • bacteria, such as E. coli, • foodborne illnesses, such as salmonella • We need to be careful with the foods.
Food safety • In the grocery store. • When we cook. • In the kitchen.
Website • http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/foodborne/index.html • http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fdkitchn.html
Exercise for your health • Exercise can help you become healthy and stay healthy.
There are two kinds of exercise • Aerobic exercise • Anaerobic exercise
How does aerobic exercise make us healthy? • Aerobic exercise burns fat. • Aerobic exercise makes a healthy heart. • Aerobic exercise makes healthy lungs.
How do you feel when you do this type of exercise? • Aerobic exercise makes you breathe faster. • Aerobic exercise makes your heart beat faster and harder. • You should be able to sing a song or talk to your friend while you exercise.
How long should you do aerobic exercise? • At least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three or more times per week. • You do not need to exercise for 30 minutes at one time. • You can exercise in groups of 30 minutes; such as three 10 minute groups.
What kinds of exercises and activities are aerobic? • walking (fast) • basketball • bicycling • cross-country skiing • hockey • skating • jogging • karate • soccer • swimming • tennis
The good things about aerobic exercise. • The body burns more fat all the time - even when you are resting! • The heart becomes stronger. • The lungs become stronger.
The difficult things about aerobic exercise. • You do not have time. • You may not have a friend to help you exercise. • You do not have a place to exercise.
Anaerobic exercise • It is very different from aerobic exercise but just as important.
How does anaerobic exercise make us healthy? • Anaerobic exercise makes muscles bigger. • Bigger muscles make us stronger. • Bigger muscles burn more calories. • Using more calories helps to keep us thin.
How do you feel when you do anaerobic exercise? • Anaerobic exercise makes you breathe faster. • Anaerobic exercise makes your heart beat faster and harder. • You cannot sing a song or talk to your friend while you exercise and you may feel like you cannot breathe.
How long should you do aerobic exercise? • At least two to three times per week.
What kinds of exercises and activities are anaerobic? • Push ups • Sit ups • Weight lifting • Volleyball • Downhill skiing • Anything that makes you breathe fast for less than five minute.
When should you stop exercising? • Exercise should stop immediately if you or feel these things: • Pain • Dizzy • Sick to your stomach • Very, very tired
Website • http://www.ymca.net
Act for a healthy life • The stress in our lives makes us unhealthy.
Website • http://www.imt.net/~randolfi/StressLinks.html#situational
Plan ahead for your health • Emergencies at your house or work. • Immunizations for your family. • Finding a doctor.
Emergencies Be prepared for any problem.
Emergency information form • Pocket emergency plan
Immunizations You can prevent illnesses.
Immunizations • Immunizations protect children from deadly diseases and save many lives. • All children that go to public schools in the United States must have immunizations.
Website • http://www.cdc.gov/ • http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/default.htm