Health Talk with Mrs Kumar

We just had a health talk from Ella Kumar.  She taught us some things about making sensible choices for ourselves and our family.

Some of the things we learnt were:

• Only children under 2 should be drinking dark blue milk.  The rest of the family should drink light blue as it has less fat and the same amount of calcium.
• Fizzy drinks and packet drinks contain mostly sugar.  We should not add sugar to our diet because it is already hidden in things like bread.
• Raro packet juice contains 18 teaspoons of pure sugar.
• Salt makes you thirsty and makes you hold onto water.  It dehydrates your body.
• Sugar also rots your teeth so drinking through a straw can help.
• Powerade is only meant for top athletes who need to replace sugar and energy quickly - children our age do not need it after one cross country run.

The photos below show some key information about what we learnt.

DISCUSSION - write in the comments one simple change that you and your family are going to make.