April 5, 2011

Child Nutrition Basics

Although most kids get too much fat in their diets, there is one age group of kids for which you shouldn’t limit fat intake — infants and toddlers under age two years. These children are still growing and need more fat in their diet than older kids. That doesn’t mean that you have to go out of your way to give your 18 month old French fries or have to avoid naturally low-fat foods, including most fruits and vegetables, but they shouldn’t drink low-fat milk, eat commercially made fat-free foods, or be put on a low fat diet.
As you learn to avoid high-fat foods for all other children, it is just as important to learn to choose low-fat foods as part of your family’s healthy diet.
It is often easy to choose low-fat foods, many clues are on the food label when a food is low, including nutrition claims that the food is:
• fat free (less than 0.5g of fat per serving)
• low fat (less than 3g of fat per serving)
• lean (less than 10g of fat per serving and 4.5g of saturated fat)
• extra lean (less than 5g of fat per serving and 2g of saturated fat)
Nutrition claims that are less helpful when choosing low-fat foods include the terms reduced, less, and light, since they only mean that the food has fewer calories or grams of fat than the regular version of the food.
For example, consider these chips:
• DORITOS Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips = 8g of fat and 140 calories per serving
• DORITOS Reduced Fat Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips = 5g of fat and 120 calories per
• DORITOS Light Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips = 2g of fat and 100 calories per serving
If you thought that the reduced fat chips were low fat, you would have been mistaken. They are not a bad choice, since they are not high in fat, but you can find “potato chips” with even less fat. These include BAKED! LAY’S Original Potato Crisps, with only 1.5g of fat, and TOSTITOS Light Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips, which as only 1g of fat per serving.

Low-Fat Foods
Unfortunately, just because something is low in fat doesn’t meant that it is low in calories. So while you want to avoid high-fat foods, you also want to avoid foods that are high in sugar and calories. For example, most of the foods that rank at the top of the list for being low in fat in the United States Department of Agriculture National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference include candy, soda, and fruit drinks.
Healthy low-fat foods, in addition to those that are labeled low fat or fat free, include:
• Lettuce
• Carrots
• Tomatoes
• Strawberries
• Spinach
• Egg whites
• Baked potatoes
• Grapes
• Angel food cake*
• Oatmeal cookies*
• Breakfast cereals (most brands)
• Watermelon
• Air-popped popcorn (without added butter)*
• Light tuna fish (canned in water)
• Grean peas
• Wheat bread
• Pancakes
• Beans
• Rice
• Pretzels*
• Vegetable soup
• Chicken soup with rice
• Milk – 1% reduced fat and skim milk
In addition to the fruits and vegetables listed above, keep in mind that most raw fruits and vegetables, except for avocados and olives, are naturally low in fat.
What’s missing from the list of low-fat foods? Hot dogs, cheese burgers, French fries, milk shakes, chicken nuggets, tacos, and many other high-fat kid’s favorites.
Hidden Fats
Many low-fat foods become high fat foods when parents unknowingly add high fat or hidden fat ingredients to them, including:
• oils, which are 100% fat and should only be used in limited amounts, with an emphasis on monounsaturated and polyunsaturated oils
• butter and margarine
• cheese
• mayonnaise (1 tablespoon = 10g of fat and 90 calories)
• ranch dressing (2 tablespoons = 15g of fat and 140 calories)
• nuts
Other foods made with hydrogenated vegetable oils, palm kernel oil, or coconut oil, are likely also high in fat.
*These are a few examples of low-fat snacks and most should be eaten in moderation only.

Source: http://pediatrics.about.com/od/nutrition/a/low_fat_foods.htm

The best hotels outside Manila in Pampanga and Subic are listed here including a beach resort which is a semi-private establishment located in the central business district near shopping, business, entertainment, airport and other conveniences of Philippines Clark Freeport Zone.   The beach resorts, leisure parks and vacation hotels in Clark Pampanga offer a unique ambience that supports a laidback relaxing lifestyle.  Many visitors travel north to Clark Pampanga from Manila to unwind and relax in these resorts.

This Pampanga resort hotel is different from other hotels in Clark Philippines or hotel in Angeles City.  This Clark Hotel has large outdoor space for children to play and adults to enjoy some peace and quiet in the picnic grounds near the lake.    Guests like the Hotel’s café breakfast garden which serves the best breakfast in Pampanga.  Clearwater Resort has nice ambience and wide space, much better than the other hotels in Angeles City and Manila Philippines.

Traffic along the North Expressway NLEX from Manila to Clark is always light and the new Subic Tarlac Clark Expressway ScTex takes visitors straight into Clark Freeport without going through any towns and cities along the way.

Many guests like staying at Clearwater Family Inn Hotel Room in the picnic grounds of this resort in Clark Pampanga.  Some like the trees in the resort camping grounds.  One can stay in other hotels in Angeles City but it is not often one finds amenities and ambience like Clark, not like Clearwater Resort in Angeles City Philippines.

Those who are lucky enough to get a room at this lake resort in Clark Philippines will be able to enjoy the magical sunrise across the lake of Clearwater Resort at dawn.  This is the only hotel in Clark Pampanga that guests can really enjoy viewing sunrise.

For information as well as assistance with reservations in hotels and resorts in Pampanga, Clark Philippines, <a href=”http://www.hotelclarkphilippines.com/?page_id=8″>click here to contact HotelClarkPhilippines now</a>

Or call us at

Hotel Clark Philippines

Creekside Road corner of Centennial Road,

Central Business District, Clark Freeport Zone,

Pampanga, Philippines 2023

Tel: (045)599-5949 0917-520-4403  0922-870-5177

Manila Sales Office

3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,

Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605

(632) 637-5019   0917-520-4393  Rea or Chay

<a href=”http://www.hotelclarkphilippines.com/”>http://www.HotelClarkPhilippines.com</a>

Email:   Info@ClarkPhilippines.com

Getting to this hotel in Clark Philippines

After entering Clark Freeport from Subic, Manila, Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along Clark’s main highway MA Roxas, passing Clark’s largest wine shop called Clark Wine Center on your right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, you will hit a major intersection.  Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road.  YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on your right just 200m down.   Traffic in Clark Philippines is light so it should be quite easy for get to this hotel in Clark Philippines.

To inquire with the beach resort hotel in Clark Pampanga visit <a href=”http://www.clearwaterphilippines.com/”>http://www.ClearwaterPhililippines.com</a>

YATS Leisure Philippines is a HK-based developer and operator of clubs, resorts and high-class restaurants and wine outlets  <a href=”http://www.yatsleisure.com/”>http://www.YatsLeisure.com</a>