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02/02/2015
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With the start of school, students face the temptation of fried snacks, chips and candy sold in the canteens of some schools. There are schools that prohibit the sale of food, but where it is still allowed guidance for parents is that the snacks prepared at home can be output to maintain a healthy diet of children and adolescents.
The nutritionist and professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of Brasilia Raquel Botelho gives tips to parents on foods that should be avoided and which is recommended for lunch. In the list of what must be avoided are foods high in sugar, fat and sodium, as sandwich cookies, candy, soft drinks and industrialized snacks. "These chips are very rich in sodium, and children are consuming too much sodium and getting early hypertensive. Let these foods for a time of celebration, weekend. "
Common item in children's lunchboxes, the box juices are also not a good option as they may have more sugar than soft drinks. They may be substituted for coconut water and fruit juices.
Fruits are good alternatives to take to school. In addition to the fruit, it is interesting to include foods that ensure energy such as natural sandwiches, bread and toast with low fat cheese, jam or curd.
With the rush of everyday life, the common is that parents do not have time to prepare snacks, and the most practical is to resort to industrial. In this case, the nutritionists says it is important to look for natural products, juices and jellies sugar, whole grain crackers and stay tuned to the labels to check the amount of sugar and fat.
Parents who keep account in the cafeteria, or buy tickets monthly can be informed of what is sold to guide children in consumption and even combine what will be provided to the student.
To help break the resistance to the consumption of healthy foods, nutritionist Raquel Botelho suggests that parents negotiate with their children one day a week to take whatever they want to school or buy lunch in the cafeteria. "If the other days the child will have a healthier diet, she will see that some things are not worth it or will pass to dislike, because we adapted our taste."
Another tip is to not put too much food in the lunch box of the children. Parents should send only the portion needed to not mess up the next meal, it is lunch or dinner.
The lawyer Claudia Miziara enrolled son of 6 years in a new school in the Federal District this year and was surprised with the rules for food. In the cafeteria selling only foods with wholegrain products, brown sugar and natural juices, parents can not send home anything that escape this line. "I had concern with healthy snacks, because the previous school canteen selling snacks and sweets, and classmates also well led products and ended up sharing with my son," he said.
Claudia approved the method, although considered to be more difficult. "I liked it, although it is easier to send a cookie package and a box of juice. Now, do early fruit juice, cakes do, and when to be complicated'll buy school snack. Seeing classmates eat well, my son will end up getting used easier and I think in the future we will reap good fruit. "
Motivated by concern for the health and childhood obesity, municipalities and state governments have passed laws prohibiting the sale of food in schools that do good for health. An example is Minas Gerais, where the public schools does not allow the sale in schools of fried food in general, salted with follhada pasta, chocolates, candies, filled cookies, soft drinks, sauces like ketchup and mayonnaise and processed snacks.
A project that the National Congress since 2005, proposes that such ban will become national in basic education schools. The bill 406/2005 aims to "control the marketing of food in elementary schools and the development of the school feeding program menus". For the text, would be prohibited from sale of beverages of low nutritional value and foods with high amounts of sugar, saturated fats, trans fats and sodium.
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Source: Agency Brazil
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