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Each announcement begins with, “Here’s your Daily Scoop of good nutrition news!”Each announcement ends with, “Remember, nutritious food plus exercise equals better grades!”
Harvests of the Month, SPRING: Berries & Spinach Cool Bean of the Month w/ cultural connection : Introduction to Cool BeansSPRING Environmental Connection: Sustainable & Earth Friendly Eating
Welcome to the SPRING start/introduction issue of The Daily Scoop - good nutrition news, delivered daily to your students. The Daily Scoop features Harvest of the Month, Cool Bean of the Month, and national health campaigns, such as National Nutrition Month!
The Daily Scoop, month One/Spring Start Daily School Announcements to Encourage Eating Lean & Green
Spring Intro, WEEK 1 - Eating a Rainbow of colorful foods
1st day of the month. Fruits & vegetables have special nutrients that boost brain power - for tackling tricky math problems and writing spectacular sentences. That’s why it’s so important to eat at least five servings of colorful fruits & vegetables a day.
Five servings a day are good, more than five is great!
2. Colorful fruits and vegetables that grow from the earth are packed with nutrients. Nutrients are things like vitamins and minerals that keep your body and mind functioning at their best. Will your lunch be a rainbow of colors today?
3. Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing all the different foods are that grow from the earth? …creamy bananas, crunchy almonds and sweet juicy berries. Natural and colorful food that grows from the earth is the key for strong bodies and smart minds.
4. The best fuel for a strong body and sharp mind is fruits and vegetables - in all the colors of the rainbow. Each different color in a fruit or a vegetable represents a different nutrient; a nutrient that your body and brain absolutely needs. Will your lunch be a rainbow of colors?
1st Friday. In addition to eating fruits and vegetables in all the colors of the rainbow, daily exercise is another key factor for a strong body and sharp mind. So, let’s move today and all weekend long by walking, biking, or any fun activity that gets your body moving!
Spring Intro, WEEK 2 - Harvest of the Month
1. When you pick a berry from the vine, or pull up a carrot from the garden - that’s called harvesting. Fruits and vegetables are the most nutritious when they are eaten fresh and ripe, just after they’re picked; just after they’re harvested.
2. Every season there are new and delicious plants to harvest. A spring fruit harvest can be sweet & tart berries… and a spring vegetable harvest is spinach, delicious raw or cooked. Both berries and spinach are good sources of Vitamin C, important for growth. Vitamin C only comes from plant-foods.
3. The local Farmers Market is a great place to buy fruits and vegetables, harvested fresh from local farms, for the most nutrition. And when we buy from our local farmers, the food is fresh and nutritious. We’re also supporting our local farmers; our neighbors.
4. Although the brain is just 2 percent of your body, the brain uses 25% of all the nutrients you eat - for thinking and learning. Fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans are all great brain food because they’re natural foods, harvested from the earth.
Friday. Nutrients from food are key for a healthy and successful life. Another key for a healthy and successful life is sleep. Eight hours of sleep is very, very important for re-charging your body and your brain - for a positively powerful day!
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The Daily Scoop, SPRING Start, page 2
Each announcement begins with, “Here’s your Daily Scoop of good nutrition news!”Each announcement ends with, “Remember, nutritious food, plus exercise, equals better grades!”
Spring Intro, WEEK 4 - Eating in Season
1. Foods that grow in the spring season are different from foods that grow in the winter season. Let’s get the week off to a healthy start by trying a new spring harvest - like spinach, delicious in soups and salads, or even added to your fruit smoothy!
2. Some foods grow better in the cool seasons, and others grow better in warmer seasons. Examples of colorful harvests for the coming spring season are red strawberries, orange carrots, and green spinach - all packed with vitamin C to help heal cuts and protect against infections.
3. Plant foods - and only plant foods - have super special nutrients called phyto-nutrients. Like the name suggests, phytonutrients help fight diseases. Phytonutrients work best in plants that are harvested fresh and in season - like berries and spinach in the springtime.
4. Finding fruits and vegetables that are in season is easy and fun at the local farmers market. And choosing locally grown food is good for the environment too, because the food doesn’t have to travel from far away in gas guzzling trucks.
Friday. You moved your body at recess and PE this week, so let’s keep the momentum going and let’s move this weekend - maybe a game of frisbee or catch. You can run and throw farther at your community park.
Spring Intro, WEEK 3 - Cool Beans
1. Get the week off to a healthy start by eating lots of nourishing and natural plant-foods - like fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans. Natural plant-foods give you extra energy - for extra fun at recess and PE!
2. Fruits and vegetables are foods harvested from plants. Nuts and beans are also harvested from plants, and they’re an excellent source of protein, important for every cell in your body - all 100 TRILLION of them!! Cool Beans.
3. Beans are rich in protein, but beans are cool for another very important reason. They use far less land and energy to grow than animal protein, so when you choose beans for protein, you’re helping to conserve energy and help cool the planet. Cool beans!
4. Beans came to America from faraway places... like India, China, and Mexico. Bean burritos from Mexico are delicious and packed with protein for strong muscles, especially with creamy avocados added, in season through spring. Cool Beans.
Friday. Spring is in the air, with longer and warmer days on the way. So let’s enjoy the sunshine and let’s move today and all weekend long - with a bike ride, walk in the park, or whatever activity you enjoy that gets your body moving and active in the fresh air!
Copyright 2014 Lean and Green Kids. The Daily Scoop was created to help your school meet district Wellness Policy nutrition education goals. Visit leanandgreenkids.org for more information.
Plants are Powerful Food for better grades and mood!
Cool Beans,
the lean & green
PROTEIN
Daily Scoop connection, Intro issue. Colorful plant-foods, nuts and beans for plant-protein.
Daily Scoop Nutrition Trivia 1. How many visits from a bee to pollinate one melon?
2. Nuts and beans. Plant or animal protein?
3. Special nutrient only in plant-foods?
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dia,
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frijo
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redo
ndo
lleno
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lent
eja.
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utas
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ras
tiene
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go im
porta
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to n
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to n
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olo
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lant
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n Fi
to n
utrie
ntes
, y
¡ver
dura
s co
n ho
jas
com
o br
ócol
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ale
tiene
n lo
más
!
Es
pera
mos
que
esa
s pun
tas y
rece
ta in
spira
n un
a co
nver
saci
ón d
e nu
trici
ón e
n su
hog
ar. ¡
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ense
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ndo
tiene
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salu
d, g
rand
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osas
so
n po
sibl
es! T
raíd
o a
uste
d po
r lea
nand
gree
nkid
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g.
