What are the most nutritious foods?

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Child Nutrition and Cooking

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Stanford University

Child Nutrition and Cooking

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Eating patterns that begin in childhood affect health and well-being across the lifespan. The culture of eating has changed significantly in recent decades, especially in parts of the world where processed foods dominate our dietary intake. This course examines contemporary child nutrition and the impact of the individual decisions made by each family. The health risks associated with obesity in childhood are also discussed. Participants will learn what constitutes a healthy diet for children and adults and how to prepare simple, delicious foods aimed at inspiring a lifelong celebration of easy home-cooked meals. This course will help prepare participants to be the leading health providers, teachers and parents of the present and future.The text and other material in this course may include the opinion of the specific instructor and are not statements of advice, endorsement, opinion, or information of Stanford University.

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From Supermarket to Dinner Table to School

Tricks for navigating the supermarket and shop for vegetables. Why the family meal is about more than just food; how to pack a quick, healthy lunch for a child and why this is so important; how to shop for fruits and vegetables (and teach children to love them); making over our children's favorite foods, and more healthy treats.

Navigating a supermarket3:46

Shopping for vegetables2:58

What are the most nutritious foods? 3:37

Packing a lunchbox2:41

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Maya Adam, MD
Lecturer
Stanford School of Medicine

So when we look at different types of food and different levels of processing of

foods, we can start on one hand looking at highly processed junk foods.

So I'll just draw this little red box and write here processed junk foods.

These are things like potato chips and you know, candy

bars, and they would probably be the lowest nutritional content.

If we then look at the next best foods for our

bodies and our growing children's bodies, we see that if we look

at things like processed canned foods or processed flours,

these ones will provide us with a little bit more, in terms of nutritional content.

but, you know, not, not perfectly ideal, when you see what

the next category has to offer. So, if we move along to the next bar we

see that we get even more nutrition when we are looking

at foods like unprocessed or less processed types of.

Sorry, I'm just going to write unprocessed,

before I make a spelling mistake.

So, we are looking at unprocessed grains in this block and things like root

vegetables, like beets and carrots, also allium

vegetables, those are things like onions and garlic.

Those things also offer us substantially more nutritional

value than processed junk food or processed canned food.

The tallest category,

the one that gives us the most nutritional bang for our buck, if you will,

are the very famous and very important things

like fruits and vegetables. So, these are obviously unprocessed.

fresh, we're talking about fresh fruits and fresh vegetables.

And these guys really give our bodies the

most nutritional value for, for weight or

the most nutrient density, the highest nutrient density.

So what that means is that the foods on this side are low in nutrient

density, are low in nutrition, and they're also foods that

don't spoil very quickly, so they last for a really long time.

And this is one of the reasons why they're

so profitable for processed food manufactuers to make and sell.

And then on the other end, if we look up at

the top here we see that these foods are very high.

In their nutrient density, or their nutritional value to us.

And at the same time they are going to spoil quickly because other sort of pests

are going to compete for these foods.

So what that means is, if we have something that we call a spoil rate,

or the rate at which a food is going to go off if we leave it in our homes, then

the spoil rate is going to go up with increasing nutrient density.

So, if at all possible, we should choose foods that spoil quickly.

Because that usually means that they're going to be better for us.

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