Back To School Beverage Tip

This clip taken from a well written article on tips for school lunch, beverage and snack options. A simple, common sense approach to keeping our kids healthy.

clipped from www.garnernews.net Another tip Leroy shares is, “Water is essential.  Water should be the beverage of choice in lunchboxes - and I mean water without flavoring or flavor packets.  Flavored waters can add as many calories as juice boxes - and the calorie free flavored waters contain artificial sugars.  Parents should not pack Gatorade or other sports drinks in lunches - kids don’t spend their lunch time on a treadmill and don’t need to replace the minerals and carbohydrates lost during exercise while sitting in a cafeteria.”