Nutrition for Kids

For some, I may only need to say two words: cafeteria lunch. Did your stomach turn? School lunches get a bad rap, but sometimes they deserve it. One of the most beautiful aspects of food, one that may be lost in over-processing, is flavor, hence the desire to over-sweeten and salt processed foods- or douse them with ketchup. At least, if ketchup doesn't qualify as a vegetable, it is high in lycopene. Wait, if tomatoes are berries, aren’t they fruit, and just what is lycopene? There's so much to know. While it important to be informed, what with our busy lives, sometimes we just have to trust the experts, or legislators, school dieticians, and major corporations, as the case may be. But despite all of this, nutrition for kids is an important when the kids are just about to play online games the whole day in.

I remember, as a youngster in the seventies, how we would disdainfully refer to our cafeteria hamburgers as "soybean burgers." Now, I pay extra for those. What gives? Recently, I’ve seen my children's school district asterisk the note that their burgers are made of turkey meat, which is often leaner than beef. Is that what disgusts children these days? As parents, we have to make the best decisions available to us; no doubt, we'll fall short of perfection (and it never hurts to send a lunch).

In general we can say that a gesudne diet and adequate exercise are good for children. Today, many children eat fast food, which you can also find information on our side) and half the day sitting in front of the computer and the neglect of Bigpoint browser games and play the daily movement.

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