Cut Back on Your Kids Sweets; Salt and Sodium; Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
Cut Back on Your Kids Sweet Treats
Limit the amount of foods and beverages with added sugars your kids
eat and drink. If you don't buy them, your kids won't get them very
often. Sweet treats and sugary drinks have a lot of calories but few
nutrients. Most added sugars come from sodas, sports drinks, energy
drinks, juice drinks, cakes, cookies, ice cream, candy, and other
desserts. Cut back on sweet treats tip sheet. Listen to this topic
Salt and Sodium
It's clear that Americans have a taste for salt, but salt plays a
role in high blood pressure. Everyone, including kids, should
reduce their sodium intake to less than 2.300 milligrams of sodium a
day (about 1 teaspoon of salt). Adults age 51 and older, African
Americans of any age, and individuals with high blood pressure,
diabetes, or chronic kidney disease should further reduce their
sodium intake to 1,500 mg a day. Salt and sodium tip sheet. Listen to this topic
Saturated
Fat and Heart Disease
Health
experts including the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart
Association recommend a diet low in saturated fat. Recent media reports have
caused some confusion about the relationship between fat and heart
disease. The best advice continues to be to reduce your risk of heart
disease eat a low fat diet avoiding most saturated fat, maintain a healthy
weight, stay physically active, and of course, if you smoke, quit.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter/HealthyEating/Saturated-Fats_UCM_301110_Article.jsp- for information about reducing saturated fat
http://www.heart.org/ - for information about heart disease
http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/basics/fat/saturatedfat.html - for information about reducing saturated fat
Last updated November 15, 2023