Did You Know?
Numerous studies have demonstrated that children who eat healthy, home-cooked family dinners on a regular basis are more likely to maintain healthy weights and get better grades, and are less likely to smoke, be depressed, or develop an eating disorder.
We, at Dinner Diva, compost our kitchen scraps - fruits, veggies, egg shells and more to decrease the amount that ends up at the landfill.
On average, preteens are exposed to 7,600 commercials a year for fast food, candy and cereal.
Ohio ranks 15th in the nation for the percentage of obese adults, with 26% of adults meeting the criteria for obesity in a 2007 study.
14.2% of the children in Ohio are considered obese.
The cost of treating diabetes and its complications, largely linked to obesity, is estimated to be $174 billion a year - about the same as the cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terrorism, combined. There are about 1 million new cases of diabetes diagnosed each year in the US
A 10 piece of McDonald's Chicken Selects® Premium Breast Strips contain 9g of trans fats (Worldwide healthy organizations recommend we consume only "trace amounts" of trans fats)
One container of ranch dressing to go with the strips contains 22g of fat, or 1/3 of what most adults should consume in a day.
A medium sized Oreo milk shake from Burger King has about 960 calories and 720mg of sodium - about half the amount of calories and a third of the total sodium most adults need in a day.
Many cereals contain more sodium per serving than potato chips.