Healthy Living Facts and Tips:

Eat Healthy!

• Start your day with breakfast.
• Have cut up fruits and vegetables at home and easily accessible for a healthy after-school snack.
• Cook a healthy meal with your kids.
• Try to eat more dark green leafy vegetables, like spinach, that have cancer fighting phytochemicals.
• Drink at least eight 8-oz glasses of water each day.
• Replace refined grains with whole grains, like whole wheat bread, pasta and whole grain cereals.
• Enjoy more fruits and vegetables and save money at the same time! Try to buy them in season.

Get Moving!

• Play outside with your children.
• Dance with your kids to fun, crazy music.
• Limit TV to one hour a day and replace that time with arts and crafts.
• Take a nature walk and make a collage or wreathe from the things you find.
• Ride your bikes.
• Fly a kite.