The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national non-profit founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation to combat childhood obesity, have tips for parents on packing a healthy school lunch for their child.
American kids consume 35-50 percent of their daily calories while in school; that is why schools are such an important part of the fight against childhood obesity. Along with these ideas to make sure your child heads out with a healthy school lunch, the Alliance offers more tips and tools online to get your family eating right.
In January of 2011, the Alliance announced groundbreaking voluntary agreements [1] with school meal manufacturers and distributors to make healthier school meal options less expensive and easier to identify.
Here are five tips for packing a healthy school lunch:
When packing a school lunch for your child try to include:
Source: Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works to address one of the nation's leading public health threats - childhood obesity. The goal of the Alliance is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015, and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. Founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and William J. Clinton Foundation, the Alliance works to positively affect the places that can make a difference to a child's health: homes, schools, doctor's offices and communities.
Posted February 25, 2011
Links:
[1] http://www.HealthierGeneration.org.
[2] https://www.momsteam.com/node/2959
[3] https://www.momsteam.com/node/2975
[4] https://www.momsteam.com/node/3020
[5] https://www.momsteam.com/nutrition/fruits-vegetables-following-colors-rainbow-to-better-health
[6] https://www.momsteam.com/nutrition/adding-fresh-vegetables-family-diet-is-easy
[7] https://www.momsteam.com/nutrition/family-health-more-fruits-vegetables-regular-exercise