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Check out these heart healthy foods for children


Nepalnews
2023 Mar 04, 14:13,
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Heart-healthy foods follow three rules: reducing sugar and saturated fat intake and pushing more for fiber-enriched nutrients. The level of cholesterol is increasing among kids for a sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy food habits and lack of physical exercise. Alarmed by that, nutritionists suggest that, the goal of making heart-healthy food is it will attract kids as well as it's healthy to eat.

Use cookie cutters to make healthy sandwiches in fun shapes. (To make heart-healthy sandwiches, use whole-grain bread, lean lunchmeat and vegetables. Avoid regular mayonnaise, salami, bologna, liverwurst and pepperoni, which are all high in saturated fat.)

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Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Google

Dip raw vegetables, like baby carrots, in hummus or salsa.

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Photo: ANI

Make smoothies. Blend low-fat milk with frozen fruit and a banana. Add low-fat yogurt for extra thickness.

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Photo: ANI

Put some grapes in the freezer — they taste just like popsicles.

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Photo: ANI

Spread peanut butter on apple or pear slices. Add two raisin eyes to make a smiling face.

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