Home and Recreation

We spend most hours of the day in settings such as work, kindergarten, and school, however – home and family play an important role in choosing flavors and habits for the children and us.

The healthy change in the family begins first of all with the food products that are purchased and are available at home, continues with making sandwiches for school, fruit box for the public park or a walk – and also whether as a family we spend time in front of screens –or walking and playing with a ball. We gathered here for you everything that is important, useful, interesting and worth knowing in order to make your home and your family more active and healthier.

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Drink Healthy: Home and Recreation

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Switching to Drinking Water

It is not easy to change habits. In this article we answer frequently asked questions to help you or your child make the change.

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Tap Water – Clearly Healthy, Especially in the Summer

Drinking tap water in Israel is safe. It is crucial to drink more, especially when temperatures rise. How the water reaches our tap, why it is recommended to drink it, and more.

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The End of the "Uncomfortable" Era

Hosts stop feeling uncomfortable and start serving water: the Ministry of Health and Efsharibari campaign review the habits and norms of drinking sweetened beverages

The Nutritional Rainbow

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The Nutritional Rainbow Diet for Healthy Nutrition

Eating Efsharibari according to the Ministry of Health's national nutritional recommendations

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Efsharibari is All About Family Meals

One family meal a day can reduce the risk of obesity in adolescents

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Even When Not Getting Out of Home - It is Possible to Eat Healthy

Even if we are at home because of fear of coronavirus infection, it is possible to keep us well with a healthy and effective diet.

Eat Healthy: Home and Recreation

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Buy Healthier and Cheaper? It's Efsharibari

If you take into account all aspects and consequences, it turns out that buying healthy food isn't only more expensive – it is even more economical

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New Government Dietary Guidelines

Eat natural, colorful food, with familiar, favorite flavors and smells – and mainly eat healthier food. Everything you need to know about the Ministry of Health’s dietary guidelines and their health

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Why Fruit and Vegetables Should Be Part of Our Daily Diet?

Why is it important and particularly beneficial to include fruit and vegetables in our daily diet and how can we persuade children to like vegetables?

Be Active: Home and Recreation

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Counting Steps for Our Health

The daily goal of 10,000 steps became popular, but is it evidence-based? How many steps a day are recommended? This article reviews a number of studies and the conclusion is surprising!

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Staying in Motion: Games From Olden Days

Play, be active and stay healthy: 60 ideas for being active with the kids, at school, at home or in the garden

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Staying Active: Children and Adolescents

Not only after school or special activities: everything that’s important to know about active lives for children and adolescents and how to turn physical activity into family quality time

Well Being: Home and Recreation

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5 Things you should know Home and Recreation

Harmful exposure: increasingly video content intended for children and adolescents is interlaced with the subliminal or disclosed advertisements of unhealthy food products; these have a significant effect on the consumption and nutritional habits of the young viewers.
The parents involvement in the eating habits of the entire family and mainly of young children helps them develop healthier eating habits also in their adult life.
Several studies have found that one family meal a day may reduce the teenagers risk of obesity later in life.
Sleep deprivation at any age may harm physical and mental health, and may also slow down and diminish the metabolic processes in the body, which leads to increased appetite, weight gain, and an increased risk for heart and cardiovascular disease.
Want the children to eat healthier? Don't try so hard! The children justifiably assume that you would not have to invest so much effort in convincing, if the food were tasty.