GO Foods Are Cool

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GO Foods Are Cool!

• A New Way To Shop and Eat for Your Health

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What is We Can?
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• Is a national program designed for families and
  communities to help children maintain a healthy
  weight. The program focuses on three important
  behaviors improved food choices, increased
  physical activity and reduced screen time.

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Go, Slow, and Whoa!A way make food choices
What????
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Okay, think of it this way
WHOA!
SLOW..
GO!!
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Go Foods

• These are foods that are good to
• eat almost anytime. (everything in moderation)
• They are the healthiest ones!
• They have high nutrition density in relation to
  the calories they provide
• Examples Fresh fruits and vegetables, whole
  grains, lean meats

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SLOW Foods

• These are sometimes foods.
• They arent off-limits, but they shouldnt be
  eaten every day or in excess at one setting.
• At most, eat them several times a week.
• Examples White refined flour breads, 2 milk,
  sports drinks

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Whoa Foods!

• These foods should make you say exactly that
  Whoa! Should I eat that?
• Whoa foods are the least healthy and the most
  likely to cause weight problems, especially if a
  person eats them all of the time.
• Thats why Whoa foods are once-in-a-while
  foods.
• Examples French fries, doughnuts, regular soda

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How do you decide which foods are GO, SLOW, or
WHOA Foods?
Read the Labels
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• Nutrient Dense

Calorie Dense
When you read a label check for calories in
relation to nutrients. Check FATS, SUGARS,
SODIUM, FIBER, PROTEIN, CARBOHYDRATES, VITAMINS
and MINERALS Seek NUTRIENT RICH food.make sure
that most of the calories you are eating are
coming from GOOD NUTRIENTS and not fats and sugars
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Be Careful with Serving Sizes!
46 of calories are FAT for 10 fries
196 calories for one whole bagel
20 316 cal. /144 from fat 30 474 cal./216
from fat
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Lets Play a Game to Test Your Skills

• Ill show a food with its label
• You will decide whether the food is a GO, SLOW,
  or WHOA food
• You will hold up the color coded stick indicating
  a category for the food item
• WHOA Red
• SLOW Yellow
• GO Green

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PRIZES

• Random GO Food slides have been selected. When
  these slides come onto the screen we will
  randomly select a student to win a prize!

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Are You Ready??
Are You Set??
Then Lets GO!!
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Health Tip

• There are often healthy substitutions that can be
  made when cooking that may make a WHOA food not
  so whoaful
• For example, you can often substitute apple sauce
  for oil in muffins or chocolate cake!
• Learn more from the University of Maines
  Cooperative Extension programming

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Health Tip

• There are ways to make those last WHOA foods more
  like SLOW foods, but how?
• Plan ahead write a shopping list before your
  head to the store
• Shop with GO, SLOW, and WHOA in mind

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• Cook at home you can control the ingredients
  and save !
• Use lean ground beef, low-fat hotdogs, or try
  veggie burgers and dogs!
• Watch the condiments! skip the mayo, try a
  seasoned mustard. Use low-fat cheeses or go
  cheese free

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• Use whole grains breads, rolls, buns, and pizza
  crusts
• Bake your fries in the oven
• Never fry!
• Load your pizzas with healthy
• toppings fruits and veggies are
• best!
• Try healthy item alternatives all together

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The WHOAS of soda

• Caffeinated sodas are NOT thirst quenchers
  (Caffeine is a diuretic)
• Sodas are extremely low in nutrition density
  empty calories from sugars simple
  carbohydrates
• Caffeine is an addictive stimulant
• High sugar content in sodas lead to weight gain
  and deteriorated dental health
• Children, teens, young adults drinking too many
  sodas are NOT drinking enough water and milk
  implications for health bone development

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Shopping and menu planning

• Think GO, SLOW, and WHOA!
• Plan Ahead
• Make small changes
• Consider nutrition density
• Moderation is the key

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Remember

• GO Foods Are Cool!