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Is there a secret to living a long, vibrant life?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File healthy_talk/1431ht4d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Patricia Bragg, ND, PhD
- Book Title Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
- Guest Website Bragg
- Guest Twitter Account @patriciabragg
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Guest Bio
Dr. Patricia Bragg, an icon in the health food industry, is CEO of Bragg Live Foods and recently founded the non-profit Bragg Health Institute and the non-profit youth focused organization Bragg Health Kids.
Patricia lives and works on her organic farm in Goleta, CA, not far from where her father, Paul Bragg, started the first health food store in in 1912 – and the first store of its kind in the country. Bragg products are known for their health benefits, and were around long before healthy and organic products became popular and trendy.
The brand and Patricia have a lot of ties to Hollywood and Los Angeles, being on the forefront of the health food movement over the years. Patricia travels the world as a health crusader, spreading the Bragg family motto: "You are what you eat, drink, breathe, think, say, and do!"
Patricia has authored 10 books about healthy living and frequently consults with celebrities and athletes about the secrets to living well.
In addition, the Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar was recently proven in a study to reduce the symptoms of Diabetes.
Patricia inspires you to Renew, Rejuvenate and Revitalize your life with The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle books and crusades worldwide. Millions have benefited from these life-changing events with a longer, healthier and happier life. -
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- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes Waiver on file
- Host Mike Smith, MD
A man's hormones affect his virility, libido, physique and mental state. What happens when they become unbalanced?
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File healthy_talk/1431ht4c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jeffry S. Life, MD, PhD, FAAFP
- Book Title The Life Plan Diet
- Guest Website Dr. Life
- Guest Twitter Account @Drjlife
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Guest Bio
Dr. Jeffry S. Life, MD, PhD, FAAFP is the recipient of the first-ever Alan P. Mintz, MD Award for Medical Excellence in Age Management Medicine.
The doctor takes a progressive, straightforward approach to help patients enjoy healthy and active life-long aging with physical and sexual energy.
He focuses on proactive, cutting-edge medicine and lifestyle interventions—rather than the traditional reactionary approach to disease.
Dr. Life is currently located in Los Angeles, California. He has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Esquire magazine, as well as on The Doctors, Dr. Phil and Fox & Friends. -
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- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Mike Smith, MD
If you're trying to improve your emotional, physical or mental health, it's never too late to make improvements.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File healthy_talk/1431ht4b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jeffry S. Life, MD, PhD, FAAFP
- Book Title The Life Plan Diet
- Guest Website Dr. Life
- Guest Twitter Account @Drjlife
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Guest Bio
Jeffry S. Life, MD, PhD, FAAFP, is the recipient of the first-ever Alan P. Mintz, MD Award for Medical Excellence in Age Management Medicine.
He takes a progressive, straightforward approach to helping patients enjoy healthy and active life-long aging with physical and sexual energy.
Dr. Life focuses on proactive, cutting-edge medicine and lifestyle interventions—rather than the traditional reactionary approach to disease.
Dr. Life is currently located in Los Angeles, California. He has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Esquire magazine, as well as on The Doctors, Dr. Phil and Fox & Friends. -
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- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Mike Smith, MD
You may have heard the importance of incorporating CoQ10 into your diet, but what benefits result from doing so?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File healthy_talk/1431ht4a.mp3
- Organization Life Extension
- Guest Website Healthy Talk MD
- Guest Bio
- Transcription
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Internal Notes NO GUEST
- Host Mike Smith, MD
Kids who eat with their families have healthier eating habits, tend to be at a healthier weight, do better in school and are closer with their families.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File eat_right/1433nd1c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Marisa Moore, MBA, RDN, LD
- Organization Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Guest Bio
Marisa Moore is a registered dietitian nutritionist who owns a nutrition consulting practice that provides services including writing, recipe development, nutrient analysis and educational workshops to improve health outcomes in wellness, weight management, heart health and disease prevention. She is the nutrition consultant for Spelman College, a food and nutrition blogger for the Huffington Post and a contributing editor for Food & Nutrition Magazine.
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Melanie Cole (Host): Family meals are especially important for kids. Research shows that kids who eat with their families have healthier eating habits, tend to be at a healthier weight, do better in school, and are closer with their families. My guest today is Marisa Moore. She's a registered dietitian nutritionist who owns a nutrition- consulting practice that provides services including writing recipe development, nutrition analysis, and more. Welcome to the show, Marisa. Tell us a little bit about why family meals are so important for families.
Marisa Moore (Guest): Hi! Thanks so much for having me on. You said it best. I think family meals are so important because they really do benefit everyone in the family, especially the children. There’s some really strong evidence to show that children who have meals with their families on a regular basis, they tend to have a better vocabulary. They end up eating better in general—more fruits and vegetables, more calcium, more fiber. There’s some interesting research to even show that teenagers in particular who spend more time with their family having dinner, they are less likely to use drugs, alcohol, or smoke.
Melanie: Wow! That’s quite a statement, and some great statistics and really great reasons to have family meals together. People get busy though, Marisa, and they say, “Okay, I’m just going to throw something in the microwave, give it to the kids, and finish the laundry.” There are so many things that keep us busy. How do we fit those family meals into our schedule?
Marisa: We are all very busy. But for the reasons I just mentioned, it’s really important to try to squeeze in a family meal now and then. The first thing that I like to recommend to people is to, one, try not to overschedule yourself. We all want to do so many different things, but find out what your kids are most passionate about instead of doing too many things after school, and maybe you will free up a little bit of time. One of the other things is just unplugging a little bit during the afternoon, and that is turning off the TV, maybe telling the kids they can’t use the phone for a little bit, and just allowing everybody some time to kind of connect with one another so that you might free up a little time that you didn’t think was there. Now, when it comes to actually put the meal on the table, I think preparation is probably the most important thing that you could do. If you have kids who are computer savvy, you can let them find recipes for you, and they can also help with the preparation. They can help with clean up, they can help with setting the table. But if they’re old enough, they can even start to cut up vegetables and make it so much easier for you to get the meal on the table.
Melanie: Well, it’s great to serve salads, and they’re one of the things that are kind of a pain to prepare. And so, cutting up vegetables, having the kids wash lettuce, do things like that really can help speed that process along, and kids do like to be involved, and I think when they are involved, they’re more invested in the results. So, when we’re looking at those kinds of family meals, you say preparation. Now, during the busy week, maybe we get home from work at 5:00 or 5:30 so we don’t have time to maybe prepare a whole healthy meal. What do you advise for the busy times?
Marisa: Well, I tell people don’t be afraid of shortcuts. That rotisserie chicken in the supermarket will be great using it to make tacos at home or just adding a couple of sides to it. You can use things like that, those little shortcuts: precut vegetables, vegetables that are already washed and prepped for you. You can use those little shortcut frozen vegetables, especially. Those little shortcuts can make a difference in you getting a meal on the table really quickly, also choosing meals that are very quick and easy to prepare. Thirty-minute meals are very popular, and there are lots of them out there. One of my most favorite and probably the easiest thing to do is to take fish that you’ve unthawed just overnight, add either some barbecue sauce or a homemade marinade, and broil it. You put it in the oven and you broil it for just 10 to 15 minutes, and you have your protein already ready to go. The other one is to maybe do foil packets, where you put your protein in there with some vegetables, set it then forget it, come back, and you have packets ready to go that are also very easy to clean up. Because if you’re like me, cooking is fun but the cleanup is not so much fun, so the idea is to try to think of things that you can maybe put on the table really quickly but also clean up. Now, the other thing that I like to make sure that families know that they can do is try to cook once and eat twice. What I mean by that is maybe on Sunday have a little extra time and you decide to make a pot roast or something like that. Go ahead and put some extra meat in the slow cooker however you’re going to make it and then use the extra for tacos later in the week, or you can add it to soup or stew if you’re doing a chicken dish. Think about ways that you can kind of use those things over during the week when you won’t have as much time.
Melanie: That’s great advice, and I also love that you’re suggesting that everybody get involved and that everybody help in the choosing of recipe, using their online abilities to find a recipe and turning it into even a little competition if you take the kids to the produce department with you and say, “Okay, pick a vegetable that you’ve never tried, and let’s look up recipes and see who comes up with the most interesting-looking recipes.” Now, when we talk about family meals, let’s talk a little bit, Marisa, about what you do with the family meals. Because I’ve seen all too many families sitting there at a meal with the kids looking down at their cellphones, even the parents doing it as well, texting and being busy doing other things. Give us your best advice about the family meal itself.
Marisa: That’s an excellent point. You have to take a little time to unplug to get all those benefits. It’s a great time for you to sit with the family and figure out what happened during their day. It’s a good time to sort of bond—and you don’t have to use that word, of course. But, it’s a good time to find out what happened in your child’s day and share with them what happened with yours, and it’s just a great time to connect with the family. So maybe do a no-technology rule at the table because often, whenever we are distracted by TV or cellphones, we end up maybe eating too much or we maybe eat too fast, and we really miss out on those benefits of having a family meal. There are ways to keep the family engaged at the table too. Like I have an idea I’m doing some maybe a theme night. You could do taco Tuesdays or Friday night pizza. It’s a great way to get the kids involved and get them engaged and they’ll be excited about what’s going to happen. If you have a family vacation that’s coming up, maybe come up with some recipes that are kind of like the area you’re going to. Let’s say you’re going to the Grand Canyon, then maybe you come up for the first four weeks leading up to vacation, you come up with recipes that have sort of a Southwestern twist. That gives your kids an opportunity to sort of research the area and get used to what the food might be there. But then, it also gives them something to kind of talk about over the table. So if you’re struggling for ideas, think about themes, think about what’s going on in your kids’ life, and figure out a way to connect food with whatever is going on in your family’s life.
Melanie: I love that idea. And really, making theme nights, you can make it fun for the kids, even decorate and put some music on. Having a little music in the background of a meal is always preferable to using your telephones or having the television on. Give us a few of your favorite healthy meals for families. We only have a couple of minutes left, but give us a few of your favorites.
Marisa: Probably my favorite thing to do is stir-fry, because with stir-fry, it’s a one-pot meal. Yes, it might take a little bit of prep, but you can always use frozen vegetables. But it gives you an opportunity to have everything in one place. You choose your protein, and then you can try out a bunch of different vegetables, see which ones you like a little more than others. You could try out different sauces, and they don’t always have to be Asian theme. You could certainly do a stir-fry that’s maybe Indian or they could be Southwestern or Latin fusion. You can try lots of different things. Stir-fries are probably my very favorite because it puts everything together. It gives you an opportunity to get plenty of fruits and vegetables in. Then, the one that I mentioned a little bit earlier is really my go-to sort of healthy dish where you just take some foil packets, put either chicken or fish or your favorite protein along with your favorite vegetables in there, cook it for 20 minutes, and it’s done. That’s the easiest one to use in it. It’s so easy to clean up. That’s probably one of the favorite ones. And then the other one would just be salad. You start with your favorite salad green, add on protein, and that protein can be beans or any other vegetable-based protein, so you could even do nachos. A lot of times we think, “Oh, nachos are not healthy,” but they absolutely can be if you do wholegrain chip, some beans, fresh salsa with tomatoes, maybe corn or your favorite vegetables. Those are ways that you can get some healthy things on the menu or on the table very easily, easy clean up, and everybody’s going to love it.
Melanie: Thank you so much, Marisa Moore. Great ideas for family dinners. The research is there. It shows that people who eat family dinners together enjoy each other’s company, do better in school, just really all around healthier eaters. This is Melanie Cole and you’re listening to Eat Right Radio. For more information, you can go to eatright.org. That’s eatright.org. Thanks so much for listening. - Length (mins) 10
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Food, nutrition and eating skills are among the most important things you can share with your children.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File eat_right/1433nd1b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Wesley Delbridge, RD
- Organization Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Guest Bio
Wesley Delbridge is a registered dietitian and the food and nutrition supervisor for the Chandler Unified School District Food and Nutrition Department, where he oversees a team of more than 300 employees who focus on promoting school nutrition, creating and serving healthy food and decreasing childhood obesity, serving more than 45,000 students. He also is a professor of food science at local colleges and universities in Arizona.
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Melanie Cole (Host): Food nutrition and eating skills are among the most important things you can share with children. Healthy eating fuels busy, successful lives and provides the nutrients your kids need to fuel up to play, perform well in school, and grow into healthy adults. My guest is Wesley Delbridge. He’s a registered dietician and a food and nutrition supervisor for the Chandler Unified School District, Food and Nutrition Department. Welcome to the show, Wesley. So, raising healthy eaters in this age of junk food and picky eaters—my kids have so many friends that are picky eaters—how do we get our kids to eat healthy, nutritious food while still making it fun for them to eat and enjoy food?
Wesley Delbridge (Guest): Hi, Melanie. It’s a pleasure to be part of your show, first of all. I think this is such a great topic for all of us that are interested in health and nutrition. The biggest thing that I can tell parents right off the bat is don't stress, because stressing and adding tension to the situation doesn't help it. Raising a healthy eater is a marathon; it’s not a sprint. So these small, little choices, these small, little pieces of advice that I can give you will help you over time create a healthy eater. It won’t happen in a day. It won’t happen in a week. But these little bits of advice are things you can use over time. The first thing that I would recommend is that you allow choices within the boundaries. One of the things that we use at our school district is to allow kids to make healthy decisions within the boundaries that you give them. So you can say, “You’re going to have this vegetable or this vegetable, but you choose,” or “It is snack time, you can have this yogurt or you can have this cheese stick, you choose.” Kids like to feel like they're in control and that they’ve made a part of the decision-making process in what they're eating. So that would probably be the first thing that I would recommend to parents.
Melanie: The autonomy – I love that you start with that because I think the autonomy is so important. If you give a child a choice between a banana and a Hershey bar, of course they're going to pick that. But you're giving them a choice between two vegetables or two dairy products or two something-healthy. That way, they still feel that they've got some control and yet they're picking from both things that are really good choices. Okay, go on with your second tip.
Wesley: The second tip is to create a hands-on experience. Everything should be from the beginning of the food process all the way till the eating process, they should be involved and they should be being educated. Help your kids by letting them grocery shop with you, helping them create dinner lists for the week or snack lists. You can even bring them in and help you prepare certain things, depending on their age and what they can do, and to cook the meals, and use those opportunities as learning tips to create questions and answers and help them feel like they're a part of the dinner or snack or meal-making process. This gives them the buy-in that they want. Kids are very hands-on. They want to see the results of what they're doing. They just don't want to be told what to do. So, being hands-on is probably the highest thing, and all the studies show that kids that are part of the preparation of food increases their fruit and vegetable consumption overall. The other thing that I think people need to look out for—and I think I was raised by this—is being part of the “clean plate club.” We always encourage our kids to clean your plate and don't leave the table until you’ve eaten everything on your plate. I think that this can be a little discouraging to kids and it can actually have a negative consequence. I think we should encourage them to eat until they have full tummies. Kids are better at listening to their body signals than adults. It takes a stomach 10 to 20 minutes to tell the brain, “Hey, I’m full. That’s enough.” What we found is that with the studies that we’ve seen is that 85 percent of the parents try to get kids to eat more than they actually want to eat. So it's a fine line between encouraging choices and encouraging trying foods but also not forcing them to eat more than they're listening to their bodies and actually what they need to eat.
Melanie: And, Wesley, I do like also that you say make them a part of the food process. As you and I discussed a little off the air, my kids start help planting the seeds, planting my vegetables, they have to weed the garden—they don't love that part—but then they get to pick everything. They eat those cherry tomatoes as fast as they come out. Then helping with the process of cooking, preparing, getting it all ready. Now, as someone who works in the schools, do you see that when you're offering vegetables in the school lunches, that the kids are throwing these out in favor of the mac and cheese, or is there a way parents can encourage their children at school to make those healthy choices and actually put them on their plate and eat them instead of trading them away?
Wesley: That’s a fantastic question, Melanie. We’ve had our challenges with getting kids to try fruits and vegetables. As you know, it's a new regulation. They actually have to choose a fruit or vegetable on their tray, and so we’ve tried some different techniques to get them excited about that. One of them is creating online menus with pictures and calling them fun names. Instead of just calling them carrots, we call them “X-ray carrotinis” because then they ask the questions, “Well, why are they called X-ray carrotinis?” “Because they have vitamin A, and that helps you see better.” So you're already helping the child with the benefit process. The other thing that we’ve seen that’s helped a lot is creating full-functioning school gardens so that kids can actually see these fruits and vegetables grow in their school environment, and then they're on their tray. They have more buy-in. Maybe they were a part of the growing process, the watering process, or the fundraising for the school garden. But again, we’ve brought them into the hands-on environment. Also, adding the nutrition education on top of it, being in the classroom, being in the lunchroom, encouraging certain fruits and vegetables for that week or that month. August is also Kids Eat Right month, but it's also National Peach Month. So this month, we’re featuring five different types of peaches up there and supporting that with the education and with the hands-on experience of where they come from.
Melanie: Kids don't always like vegetables as much as they like fruits, Wesley, and they don't always like the vegetables cooked. So do you agree with adding ranch dressing to dip it in or cheese sauce on the broccoli? How can we get them to eat them raw or in the healthiest way possible instead of just always choosing the fruits over the vegetables?
Wesley: That’s an excellent point. Increasing the variety is huge with kids. They’ll have up to 25 percent more consumption when you offer a variety. And you can try different techniques. I’m not going to eat boiled Brussels sprouts, but I’ll try them if they're roasted. So it's the same vegetable, but trying different techniques, trying different seasonings. And you brought up ranch dressing, mac and cheese. In-house, we’ve created our own ranch dressing that’s made with non-fat yogurt, non-fat dry milk powder, and low-sodium ranch seasoning, and we make that in-house and we put it in one-ounce portion cups with the vegetables of the day, and that has doubled our vegetable consumption. So not only is it a good source of protein, it's low in fat. We’ve limited the portion size. They don't have the pour tabs where they can just pour it all over everything. So we’ve added that as a benefit, but it does what we’ve seen as those little benefits, those little sauces, as long as you can make them healthy, they will increase vegetable consumption, especially in its raw state.
Melanie: Now, healthy eating for kids does not only include vegetables and fruits. You mentioned yogurt and cheese. What about meats and fishes, getting our kids to eat fish and try fish and do all the different things, the chickens and things? How do we get them to eat the real healthier choices? Instead of a cheeseburger, maybe try a piece of chicken or a piece of fish?
Wesley: That’s an excellent question. One of the things we’ve done is rather than talk about the word “nutrition,” talk about the word “food.” What we do in the Chandler District, and what I’ve seen a lot of parents do, is actually call it “fuel.” So we say, “Food is the fuel for your bodies, and this is how we need to fuel your bodies. And your body feels good when it's getting the food that it needs as fuel.” And I think it also comes down to exposure. They may not like a certain type of fish on the first try. Most studies show that kids take 12 to 14 times of exposure before they even try it. So, just constantly exposing them to, “Hey, try a bite of this fish, it’s cod, and this is a little story behind it, and this is where it comes from,” or maybe “Try this grilled salmon with your asparagus,” and add different seasonings to it. If they don't like it right away, that’s okay. Again, going back to my first point: don't stress; it might take them 15 to 20 different times. And then also, talking about how we have courtesy bites and our taste buds change, so just constantly encouraging them to grow and change with their taste buds and always trying new things.
Melanie: Great information. You’re listening to Eat Right Radio. For more information, you can go to eatright.org. This is Melanie Cole. Thanks so much for listening. - Length (mins) 10
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Physical activity is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle for your child.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File eat_right/1433nd1a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Angela Lemond, RDN, CSP, LD
- Organization Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Guest Bio
Angela Lemond is a registered dietitian nutritionist who works in private practice, assisting children, adults and families with nutrition for disease prevention as well as food therapy to treat medical conditions. On her blog, LemondNutrition.com/blog, she writes about challenges of raising healthy children and offers tips and resources on how to make living well easier.
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Melanie Cole (Host): Physical activity is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle for your children. But how do we get our children to engage in that healthy lifestyle and do some physical activity, even when they’re not in school and they don’t have gym and recess? My guest is Angela Lamond. She’s a registered dietician-nutritionist who works in private practice, assisting children, adults and families with nutrition for disease prevention. Welcome to the show, Angela. Let’s talk about getting kids active. In this day and age of video games and in the summer and then they’re back to school, and schools are cutting gym and recess in favor of academics, what do we do to get our kids more active and be feeding them healthier at the same time, really giving them the whole picture?
Angela Lamond (Guest): Thanks for having me, by the way. It is such a great topic. As dieticians, we’re always talking about the energy and with food, right? But the other half of the equation really does have to be discussed. As a mom, I understand. I don’t always know what goes on in the home, because a lot of the popular things that kids are doing, there’s a lot of social circles around video games and gaming and those kind of things. I’m in the middle of this, as well, in my own family. So, things that I know have worked for me and will work for our patients here are really just – the first thing that we have to discuss is being a good role model and this is really difficult to talk about. As parents, it’s very humbling, but we really should be looking at the things that we’re modeling first, because if we make being physically active a priority in our own life, that ends up becoming more of a teaching tool than anything we could tell them to do. So modeling those behaviors is so key. If you’re being active, if things that you like to do whenever you have free time involves being active, then chances are the child is going to follow in that same path. So the environment is so key to that piece. I think that is the case, and then also really setting some guidelines around how much tech time should be in the house. There’s a lot of studies coming out now showing about the negative effects of sedentary activities, separate from the amount of activity a person has. The damaging effects that sitting has is really starting to be connected to some bad health effects. So really minimizing that by setting some guidelines in the home is really critical to minimizing a sedentary activity. If they’re not doing that, then they’re going to be active. Those are the two big ones that I say that’s for sure.
Melanie: Well, Angela, I think that’s such a great way to put energy out and we don’t think of it as that. Everyone hears about that energy and then the role modeling. Because parents have to get involved in it with their children and even making it a competition, putting a pedometer on everybody and saying, “Whoever gets the most steps…” This will give a kid a competition and they’re going to run up and down all day to win.
Lamond: Exactly. And we have seen that firsthand. We’ve done that with kids here and it’s fun. You make being active a fun thing, a little competitive. And one way to do that is – you always have the one person in the family that’s a lot more active than any one person. So the key with the pedometer challenges is doing a percentage of increase which, I think, makes it a level playing field for everybody, because sometimes you see that happening. But, really, making it fun is key. Not necessarily calling it exercise. This is another thing. In our adult mentality, we talk about making sure we get our workout and those kinds of things, but I think the way to be really long-lasting, especially with younger kids, is really not even calling it exercise. It’s just, “Let’s go out and have fun. Let’s spend some time together.” That is so important to kids and families. It’s really nurturing. So what’s a better way to do that, to spend time with your kids and being active? You’re doing two things that are very, very important: spending time with them and making sure that their heart and their muscles are being stimulated. That’s something that we all need to do every day. It doesn’t matter what shape or size we are.
Melanie: So it’s really a family affair, right, Angela? Now speak about – you’re a registered dietician-nutritionist and you know all about that energy in and the energy out. So if we are going to keep our kids that much more physically active, do we need to change their diet in any way?
Lamond: Well, the approach with healthy eating is going to be a lot more generalized when it comes to kids. The younger kids, you definitely want to have, what I call, the “always foods” in the house. I like to do the 80/20 rule. So 80 percent of the foods that are in your home are going to be those always foods that are obvious – fresh fruits and vegetables, low fat dairy, cheeses, yogurts, whole grains, lean meat, all of those kinds of things. If we have, what I call, nature’s fast food ready to grab and go, those are going to be the things that they eat. So we want to kind of try to avoid saying things like diet or diet foods or, you know, “This is too high in carbs.” We’re starting to see a lot of that kind of leaking from the parents, well-intentioned, but those are things we want to kind of – we want them to feel comfortable around food, being empowered to make healthy choices. Really, talking about what those always foods do for them, instead of talking about dieting or any negative connotations around that. We don’t generally have them food log or start a diet, those kind of things. Really even out naturally for children, because they’re also growing, and that’s not the luxury that adults have. We’re done growing, right? So some kids really just need to maintain their weight for a while, while their body adjusts in the height.
Melanie: Now, Angela, what do you think? Schools are cutting recess and gym in favor of academics, which we know we need to keep up with other countries. But kids can’t think clearly without getting their beans out. They have to run around to get that blood flow to the brain in the first place. What do you suggest to parents whose schools are cutting some of their recess time and even gym classes, only once a week maybe, in getting them active those other times when they’re not in school?
Lamond: Well, first of all, I am an advocate to make your voice be heard. So if you’re not happy with something that’s going on in our school district, to join the PTA, to really get onboard where there’s a lot of volunteer organizations to help make changes. And those things are being done. I can tell you there’s a lot of people that are trying to get physical activity back into the schools, so know that. But in the meantime, what I would suggest, I mean, really what’s going to have to happen is you’re going to make up for that sedentary activities. So it’s almost even more important to have those fun activities after school. They’ve done so many studies. They’ve actually hooked kids up to these little EET machines where they’ve been active for 30 to 60 minutes and then they put these little tabs on them that can read their brain activity. And it’s amazing! It’s like their brains light up like a Christmas tree as far as how stimulated their minds are following physical activity. So maybe, after school, you will get your afternoon snack and then they would have an hour of active play before they even sit down and start their homework. We’re pushing a lot of academics, which I highly advocate for, but don’t underestimate the impact that pushing your kids to be active have on the academics itself.
Melanie: Absolutely. In just the last minute or so, Angela, give your best advice for children today, the challenges of parents in keeping their children really, really healthy and active.
Lamond: Well, I believe that you can’t tell your child to do something that you’re not doing yourself. As a mom, I say this every day, that is a very humbling position, being the parents in this day and age. Start with yourself. Start making sure that you’re modeling the healthy eating and the physical activity recommendations that are out there, for a child that should be a very minimum of 60 minutes a day and for adults it really is going on good 45 minutes to an hour of moderate physical activity, each and every day. Make sure you’re starting that, and part of that, I think, doing it is the best you can do for your children and then they will us follow us through with it when you do it as well.
Melanie: Absolutely great information. You’re listening to Eat Right Radio with our friends from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. It’s such great information, so share these shows with your friends. This is Melanie Cole for Eat Right Radio. Thanks for listening. - Length (mins) 10
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