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.