Grab a Healthy Snack

As a growing kid, you need healthy snacks to get you through the day. Regular and nutritious snacks help keep your mind alert and your energy levels up.

When you get hungry between meals, nutritious snacks give you the extra energy and nutrients you need.

Healthy Kids Activities

Think a vegetable can’t teach you anything? Well think again! Try these cool experiments and activities and see what you learn!
 

Colourful celery experiment
Place a celery stalk in a clear container. Fill it up three-quarters full with brightly coloured water (just add some food colouring). Look at what happens over the next few days. You should see the celery drinking the water.

Try the experiment with other plants – maybe one with a white flower. What do you predict will happen?

Plants draw the water up their stem and send it on to their leaves and petals. Carefully cut the stem. Can you see the coloured water inside?

4 Simple Tips for Raising Healthy Kids

In a land of go-gurts, happy meals, lunchables, and clever junk food marketing geared toward kids, raising a healthy child is becoming increasingly difficult. We are never more than five feet away from a food message and 90% of those messages are not about health food. So what’s a parent to do? KISS (Keep it Super Simple) those problems away! Here are four super simple tips to keep your child healthy while maintaining your sanity.

5 Tips for Choosing a Children’s Multivitamin

These days, a walk down the vitamin aisle is enough to give you a headache – luckily, there’s a vitamin for that. The same goes for children’s multivitamins, as there are many brands vying for attention on the shelf.  If parents choose to implement a multivitamin in their child’s diet, Ilyse Schapiro, MS, RD, CDN has five tips to make the multivitamin options a little less confusing. As always, a talk with your child’s pediatrician is advised before starting any new regimen.

1) Get a supplement that says multivitamin and mineral to get the best key nutrients. Our Mary Hartley, RD suggested, “Don’t forget about minerals! Look at the zinc and iron content. For instance, Flintstones Complete has 12 mg of zinc whereas Centrum Junior Complete has only 3 mg.”

Children in China More Likely to get Diabetes than Children in America

Teenagers in China are four times as likely to get diabetes than those from the United States. This was discovered by a study led by Barry Popkin, Ph.D., W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The researchers used data from the longest ongoing study of its kind in China, China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). They analyzed data from over 29,000 people that were followed from 1989 to 2011 in 300 different communities in China.

Skin Care Tips

Many beauty products on the market have some harmful chemicals in them; some of your favorite beauty products may contain any of these things:

• Mineral Oil, Paraffin & Petrolatum, Parabens
• Phenol carbolic acid
• Propylene glycol
• Acrylamide
• Sodium laurel or lauryl sulfate (SLS), also known as sodium laureth sulfate (SLES)
• Toluene
• Dioxane

General Tips

• Drink plenty of water, stay off the alcohol and out of the sun.
• Clean your face with a gentle cleanser when you wake up and before you go to bed.
• Use tea tree oil on your skin for scars and the occasional breakouts
• Do not touch your skin too much throughout the day
• Wash your hands frequently in case you do touch your face
• Olive oil works real well on your face. Also use massage oils on your hands and legs. You will see an immediate difference.
• Exfoliate your skin at least once a week. It will work wonders on removing dead, flaky skin.
• Eat healthy foods that are good for your skin. (eg. fruits, vegetables, etc)
• Don't eat a lot of junk food or else you will get more pimples
• Don't pop your pimples unless you have a tool made especially for extracting black heads.
• Masks are easy to make or you can find them in stores and they're great to make your skin glow.
• Find a skincare regimen that works for your skin type. Don't use skincare made for dry skin if you have oily skin.
• Never sleep in makeup.
• Always moisturize. As said before, drink lots of water.

25 Tips for Healthy Lifestyle

1. Brush twice a day.
2. Dress right for the weather.
3. Visit the dentist regularly.
4. Get plenty of rest.
5. Make sure your hair is dry before going outside.
6. Eat right.
7. Get outside in the sun every once in a while.
8. Always wear a seatbelt.
9. Control your drinking of alcoholic beverages.
10. Smile. It will make you feel better.
11. Do not over indulge yourself.
12. Bathe regularly.
13. Read to exercise the brain.
14. Surround yourself with friends.
15. Stay away from too much caffeine.
16. Use the bathroom regularly.
17. Get plenty of exercise.
18. Have your eyes checked regularly.
19. Eat plenty of vegetables.
20. Believe that people will like you for who you are.
21. Forgive and forget.
22. Take plenty of vacations.
23. Celebrate all special occasions.
24. Pick up a hobby.
25. Love your neighbor as yourself.