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I Am Dr. Cathy Hooper Here For You To Help Kids Learn About Nutrition!

A study published in a leading medical heart journal showed that fat laden foods in childhood diets will produce fatty deposits in the blood vessels of all American youngsters by the end of their teen years.

In an effort to help introduce and foster more nutritious eating habits in very young children, the Pear Bureau Northwest and USA Pears created PearBear as the conduit to better diets, and having a lot of fun at the same time.

PearBear is based on the real black-brown bears native to the American West, which are sometimes found in the orchards where pears are grown. A kind, child-friendly, pear-loving character, PearBear roams the forests and fields with his friends, the other animals that share them. Their adventures develop through humorous stories with enough sophistication that even adults will enjoy reading them.

PearBear’s favorite food is, of course, pears. But he delivers, through posters and stories, other messages by example, such as: wash fruits and vegetables before eating them, sharing, care for others, don’t litter, don’t quarrel with your friends… lessons for us all!

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Pyramid shows the frequency of eating from each food groups

The Food Guide Pyramid was designed as an easy way to show the groups of foods that make up a good diet. It also tells you that you need to eat a variety of foods from all five groups and how much of the foods from the different groups you should eat to stay healthy.

Its pyramid shape (rather than a circle or square) helps explain which foods you should eat more or less of. The foods that make up the pyramid’s base (the widest part) should provide the bulk (the biggest part) of your diet. As you go up the pyramid, the amounts of different foods you need get smaller.

To help you build a healthy diet, the Food Guide Pyramid gives the number of servings you should eat from each part of the pyramid every day. It usually lists a range of numbers, like six to 11 servings or two to four servings.

Most kids need to eat at least the smaller number of servings to get the nutrients (say: noo-tree-ents) they need. Nutrients are the things in foods that your body needs to stay healthy and grow. And many kids will need more than the small number, especially those who are into sports and use lots of energy.

Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta Group
This group forms the bottom of the pyramid, so the foods in this group should make up the biggest part of what you eat all day. That’s because bread, cereal, rice, and pasta are all great sources of carbohydrate, the nutrient that the body uses as its major energy source. So if you want lots of power, be sure to hit the bottom of the pyramid!

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Guide to Good Eating During Pregnancy

Eat a variety of foods. by:http://www.nutripro.net/good-eating-during-pregnancy/
Choose foods with a lot of fiber—fruits, vegetables, dry beans, whole grain breads and cereals, and other whole grain products.
Exercise in moderation on a regular basis (ask your doctor).
Drink plenty of fluids (64 ounces per day or eight, 8-ounce glasses)
Eat 3 to 5 meals and snacks per day.
Pregnancy increases the need for calories and most nutrients. Starting with the second trimester, you need to increase your normal calorie level by 300 calories to provide the extra energy your body needs. Remember, this is not a lot of food. 300 calories is equal to a small snack, such as a half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of 1% milk.

The amount of suggested weight gain depends upon your weight before pregnancy (ask your doctor).
Visit the new food guide pyramid online at http://www.nutripro.net/ for more information.

Vegetable Group—2.5 cups

Count as 1 cup: 1 cup cooked vegetables; 2 cups raw leafy vegetables; 1 cup (8 ounces) 100% juice. Include one serving of a dark green leafy vegetable every day.

Grain Group—6 ounce equivalents (or the amount of a food that has a similar nutrition value to 6 ounces of a grain)

Count as 1 ounce equivalent: 1 slice 100% whole grain bread; 1 cup whole grain, ready-to-eat cereal; ½ cup cooked cereal, rice, or pasta, ½ “mini” bagel, 1 small tortilla, 6 inches in diameter; 1 pancake, 4½ inches in diameter.

Oils and Solid Fats—use sparingly

Common portions: 1 tablespoon corn, safflower, or cottonseed oil; 1 tablespoon margarine; 1 tablespoon mayonnaise; 1 ounce nuts; and 4 large olives.

Most cakes, pies, cookies, soft drinks, sugar, honey, candy, jams, jellies, gravies, butter, and sour cream have either an oil or solid fat and may be loaded with simple sugars. Eat them in moderation; save them to eat only if you need extra calories after eating the basic needed foods.

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Nutritional Needs

Pregnancy is the most nutritionally demanding time of a woman’s life. Your body needs enough nutrients every day to support the growth of your baby and the maintenance of your own body. All the nourishment this developing baby needs comes from you, either through the foods you eat or the supplements you take.

Pregnant women need more essential nutrients than other women. From the beginning of the second trimester until delivery, your body needs an additional 300 calories each day to support the growth of your baby. It is important to eat the right foods every day since tissues and organs develop during certain weeks of your pregnancy. Your own health

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Black Tea, the “Western” tea, is fermented, and is made by withering to reduce moisture content, followed by rolling, cutting, fermenting, drying, grading, tasting and blending.

Most experts now feel that the health benefits of green and black tea are about equal.

It’s the polyphenols which are currently exciting interest as far as health is concerned. These contain gallic acid, flavonoids, catechins (richer in green tea), flavonols such as quercetin, and condensed tannins (the oflavins and theorubigens). The health benefits of polyphenols may lie in their strong antioxidant properties. 82% of antioxidants in the U.S. diet come from polyphenols, of which 25% are from tea. Incidentally, 80% of tea drunk in the U.S.A. is iced!

Apart from its antioxidant effect, tea is an enzyme inducer, detoxifier and chelator, and has an effect on blood clotting.

The two main areas in which tea is being researched are the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer; so much so that green tea tablets (containing 150 mg tea extract, equivalent to 1 cup of tea) are being trialled in Japan and the U.S. At the recent International Symposium on Tea and Health in Sydney, which I attended, one of the most exciting prospects announced was the possibility that tea may inhibit metastasis (spreading) of malignant melanoma cells.

Metabolism is affected by tea, and this may be protective against breast cancer. Tea reduces the many mutagenic compounds (heterocyclic amines) formed when frying meat or fish. In this respect, decaffeinated tea may be even more effective. Other cancers which may be inhibited or delayed include oesophageal, stomach, colon, liver, lung, pancreas, bladder and skin. Japanese researchers have produced the first evidence that cancer onset in patients who have habitually consumed over 10 cups of green tea daily is 7.3 years later (in females) and 3.2 years later (in males) than among those consuming less than three cups per day. Of course, all very hot fluids add to the risk of cancer of the oesophagus – so let it cool a little.

The benefits of tea seem to be affected by genetic makeup: some people are better helped than others – for example, in blood clotting. Future research will no doubt tell who benefits most.

It was thought, until very recently, that the addition of milk may negate some of tea’s health advantages. However, we now think the trial which revealed this may have been an aberration due to the occupation of those trialled – mostly Welsh miners. The consensus at the recent international seminar was that milk made no difference to tea’s health properties.

Tea may help cardiovascular disease by lowering serum cholesterol but increasing HDL (the ‘good’ cholesterol). Catechins may lower cholesterol absorption. The antioxidant effect may prevent oxidation, which LDL (the ‘bad’ cholesterol) needs to block our arteries. Salicylates and folic acid (folates) may also have a protective effect. Tea extract increases beta carotene (a strong antioxidant, and Vitamin A precursor in the plasma). Tea also inhibits platelet aggregation, thus protecting against stroke and coronary artery disease [CHD], and it may act against inflammation.

We should not forget the ‘immediate’ effects of tea, which are not all good. Caffeine is the main culprit (see our earlier newsletter), although less pronounced than in coffee. Tea does increase skin temperature more than coffee, independent of caffeine – possibly due to its flavonoids – and this causes no harm. Alertness, and cognitive and psychomotor performance, are all increased for about 40 minutes after drinking tea. But high levels of caffeine may cause nervousness, irritability, and delayed sleep onset. Tea also acts as a diuretic. Its absorption ‘half’ life is about eight minutes, and its elimination half life is 3 ½ hours. Tea may help stress but this may only be due to ‘sitting down in a comfortable chair and taking time to enjoy a nice cuppa’!

It should also be noted that tea interferes with iron absorption. Thus children and menstruating women in particular should be careful to drink it only between meals, when it will not have this effect.

Mention should be made of herbal teas which, of course, are not really a tea product in the sense described. Many can be toxic: e.g., kava plant tea, comfrey, sassafras and ragwort teas. Others may be beneficial and enjoyable, although insufficient research has been done at this point.

In summary, it seems that tea – like most plant foods – is beneficial to health, that it should be started early in life, and that the optimum intake may be 4 to 10 cups per day, depending on the cup size and the drawing time.

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