Keep Health in Mind When scheduling School Day Menu

As parents get ready for their children's revisit to school, they want to remember that healthy meals and snacks are essential for learning.
"Parents can make the school day easier for their children by provided that nutritious and yummy breakfasts, lunches and snacks that promote optimal learning. Everyone is in a charge in the morning, but it only takes a few minutes on Sunday to plan healthy meals to fuel your child's week," Karin Richards,Exercise Science and Wellness Management program, director of the and director of Health Sciences at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, said in a university news release.
Richards offered the following advice for parents as they plan breakfast, lunch and snacks for their school-age children:

It contains at least three types of foods into each meal, making sure to include some type of protein and complex carbohydrates, such as whole wheat bagels or pasta. The complex carbohydrates will provide energy while the protein will satisfy your child's appetite for a longer period of time.

Bring your child to the market with you and let him or her select one fruit or vegetable each week. Encourage kids to try new and interesting produce such as kiwi, papaya and edamame.

Check portion size. Three to four ounces of meat is plenty. Adjust the amount based on your child's age and action level.
Add more vegetables into your child's diet, still if you have to sneak them in. For example, try zucchini bread, veggies with low-fat dip, or shred carrots into tomato sauce and soups.

For beverages, suggest low-fat milk or water. If you child prefers juice, make sure it's 100 percent juice.

Lower Blood Pressure May be Help Sicker Kidney Patients

Standard goal may not be low enough for those with protein in their urine, study finds, Aggressive treatment to lower high blood pressure may help protect kidney function and prevent the need for dialysis in some black patients with chronic kidney disease.
That's the decision of a study published Sept. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"This is not a solution. We have a lot more to figure out. But our proof suggests that we have a way to at least delay or possibly even prevent end-stage kidney disease in some patients," study leader Dr. Lawrence J. Appel, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said in a Hopkins news release.
The study of 1,094 black patients with chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure found that forceful treatment to lower high blood pressure to about 130/80 provided the most benefit to sicker kidney disease patients those with protein in their urine.
In this group of patients, there was about a 25 percent decrease in end-stage kidney disease compared to those who achieved a blood pressure goal of 140/90, which is the standard of doctors when treating patients with high blood pressure.
Among patients who weren't as sick those with little or no protein in their urine efforts to lower blood pressure had little effect on kidney disease succession.
Appel said, "This has always been a hot topic: Is a lower blood pressure target better at preserving kidney function than the standard goal? The answer is a trained yes, notably in people who have some protein in their urine".
The results suggest that doctors should check for protein in the urine before they decide the blood pressure goal for blacks with kidney disease, he added.