Making Healthier Food Choices



The *We Can!* stands for Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition, which is a campaign developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The campaign is a national education program designed for parents and caregivers to help plan and prepare healthy meals and snacks. To read PDF files, get here.

Making Healthier Food Choices As a parent, you want to give your family the best you can. Serving healthier foods in the appropriate portions per food group and calorie level is one of the best ways to ensure that your children are getting proper nutrition without eating too many calories. These simple tips can help you plan and prepare meals and snacks to help your family to get the most nutrition out of the calories consumed. More>> [PDF, 196KB]

Making Healthier Food Choices. We Can! Parent Tips. NIH/NHLBI. n.d. English.

Last Reviewed: November 2008