

Healthier Candy Choices – Payday® CandyThe Payday® candy bar is one of the healthier candy choices. It is still candy. Payday® is not a health food and yet it is very similar or even better in ingredients than most protein or power bars. The Payday® is a good choice candy bar when you are looking for healthier Halloween choices without taking all of the fun out of Halloween. Payday® is high in proteinJust like most power bars Payday® includes a healthy dose of protein. Payday® is a peanut and caramel candy bar. It is delicious and nutritious. Peanuts are not really a nut, but a legume. Legumes are edible seeds enclosed in pods like black beans and soybeans. Peanuts contain protein and amino acids, the building blocks for muscle. I actually use Payday® as a protein bar for may post workout snack sometimes. Peanuts are natural sources of vitamin E and B vitamins. The B vitamins found in peanuts are important to energy production in your body. Milk, soy powder and egg whites also add to the protein in a Payday®. Payday® is high in carbohydratesCarbohydrates are important for energy production and also muscle building. The sugar in a Payday® is corn syrup. This is not the healthiest choice of sugars and yet it is not the worst choice either. Corn syrup is far better than the high fructose corn syrup that is in most candies. The carbohydrates in Payday® are great for a post work out snack and a better choice for your kids on Halloween. Payday® is low in chemicalsThe Payday® candy bar has low in artificial flavors, chemicals or colors and relatively low in “unknown” additives. The Payday® has only carrageenan, (a plant based color), mono and diglycerides, (made from coconuts). Although I do not advocate those ingredients as being good choices, the Payday® is a pretty “clean” candy or protein bar compared to the competition. Teach your children good candy choicesLife is about choices. Halloween can be a terrific opportunity to give your kids the gift of healthy for the future. Halloween can be fun and healthy too! Teach your children how to have fun on Halloween and make better choices that will impact their lives into the future. Learn more about good family food choices when you just click here. Popularity: 31% [?]
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All Schools Have Wellness GuidelinesThe state of Pennsylvania, like most other states, has wellness policies for schools. One of the policies in PA is that all of the schools are required to have wellness committees that plan, organize and provide wellness education for students, staff and parents. It amazes me how many schools can not afford to have Debbie Banana come to assist them in that process. Other school districts, some in that appear to be less privileged districts seem to find the funds necessary to give the students the information they need to live healthier into adulthood. I would think that wellness education of children would be a priority everywhere. Wellness is not a choice!The health and wellness of students is not a choice that should be taken lightly. For a child who is not healthy, a good education in math or science is basically useless. I don’t understand why faculty and parents put off health in favor of other parts of education. I am really impressed with several of the school districts that I am working with such as Coudersport Elementary and York City Schools, who choose to find the funds to invest in the most important part of their children’s education, health. Educated Kids Make Good Choices
Kids Love SnacksDebbie Banana loves snacks and so do the kids. Debbie Banana teaches the kids to eat 5 fruits and vegetables a day. She also teaches choices. Life is all about making little choices that will affect you all your life. Kids love snacks. Snacks, even chips and tortillas can be good-for-you choices. Debbie Banana talks about the difference between good chips and bad chips. Some chips or tortillas are full of sugar and chemicals and some are not. There are good chips and there are bad chips. Life is about choices! We can choose healthy snacks, fruits or vegetables or we can choose good chips. As I typed this article a young boy named Cole came up and sat next to me. Cole appears to be about 6 or 7. He said that he likes fruit and now that he knows fruits and vegetables will help him to live a better life and grow up healthy so he can be an astronaut he has decide that he is going to try to eat more vegetables. He said the banana thing was really funny and everyone was laughing there heads off. (I hadn’t noticed!) Kids Learn More When They Have Fun!Debbie Banana And The Mad Scientist is not your typical boring school assembly. Kids have fun, laugh and get involved. Everyone buys, learns and invests in life based on their emotions. When an assembly engages the kids the way this one does, they have fun in school and become emotionally involved. This creates an immediate impact in their lives now and for the future. My mission is to change the way kids eat now and into the future. I made good progress toward that goal today. Let’s see if I can do the same tonight with the parents in half the time!!? Principles Prioritize Students’ HealthyCongratulations to Coudersport Elementary School principle, Sherry Cowburn for putting a priority on the wellness of their students! There is nothing more important for the future of kids than their health. When more schools and school principles see the importance of wellness education, we will begin to reverse the epidemic in childhood disease and obesity. Mrs. Cowburn, Coudersport Elementary School and the staff are ahead of the majority of schools in Pennsylvania. Congratulations Coudersport! Click HERE for more info on Debbie Banana. Popularity: 10% [?] |
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