Health and Nutrition
Ms. Weikman
The current fifth grade elementary health program is developed in response to the growing numbers of youth, 10-13 years of age, who are becoming involved in high risk behaviors including alcohol and tobacco initiation, drug use, unhealthy eating patterns and violence. Through this program the students will be empowered by having comprehensive information as well as proactive strategies to prevent initiation into risky behaviors. Each lesson contains relevant information that will increase the students’ knowledge on the subject matter combined with a skills-based task that encourages students to practice employing relevant techniques. Having an Elementary Health Specialist to coordinate efforts in using this program throughout the district will enhance quality assurance and systematic delivery to students.
Health and Nutrition
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- Make half your grains whole. Choose whole-grain foods, such as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, brown rice, and low fat popcorn.
- Vary your veggies. Go dark green and orange with your vegetables – eat spinach, broccoli, carrots, and sweet potatoes.
- Focus on fruits. Eat them at meals, and at snack time, too. Choose fresh, frozen, canned, or dried, and go easy on the fruit juice.
- Get your calcium-rich foods. To build strong bones serve low fat and fat-free milk and other milk products several times a day.
- Go lean with protein. Eat lean or low fat meat, chicken, turkey, and fish. Also, change your tune with more dry beans and peas. Add chick peas, nuts, or seeds to a salad; pinto beans to a burrito; or kidney beans to soup.
- Change your oil. We all need oil. Get yours from fish, nuts, and liquid oils such as corn, soybean, canola, and olive oil.
- Don’t sugarcoat it. Choose foods and beverages that do not have sugar and caloric sweeteners as one of the first ingredients. Added sugars contribute calories with few, if any, nutrients.