As a new year begins, we once again take the time to reflect on where we’ve been in the past year and start to think about how we want to improve ourselves in the year to come.

At Woodhaven, nutrition is always at the top of our list when we think of things we need to work on – not because we are unhealthy – but because we know that to maintain our health, we need to watch what we eat and make wise choices. 2011 was a great year for a lot of us here, even the little changes we made to our diet really added up to a lot of pounds lost!

As 2012 commences, many of us plan to continue our commitment to making healthy choices.

To help reinforce what we learned in 2011 and keep us on track for 2012, Aktion Club invited Paula V., a dietitian from Hy-Vee to talk to us about nutrition.

Here are a few of the tips and tricks she shared with us:

1. 4 oz. of meat is the size of a deck of playing cards
2. 1 cup is about the size of a baseball
3. 1/2 cup is the size of a tennis ball
4. Fruits & Vegetables should take up about 1/2 of your plate
5. Proteins should be 1/4 of your plate
6. Whole grains and other starchy foods should only take up 1/4 of your plate
7. When cooking at home, use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate

For more tips and other information about healthy eating, check out Choose My Plate.

For more snapshots from the Aktion Club meeting, click on the photo below to see the slideshow
(or use the navigation buttons below).

Steve

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