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A big part of being healthy has to do with diet and exercise.

Here are some tips from the Ministry of Education on how to help your child maintain an active lifestyle. All Students: ■ Insist that your children eat breakfast every day, as it provides fuel for the brain to learn and helps them maintain a healthy weight. ■ Keep nutritious foods, like cut-up vegetables and fruit,

cheese sticks, low-fat yogurt and butter-free popcorn on hand to make healthy snacking easy. ■ If your child has anaphylaxis, coordinate with the school principal on an updated emergency plan that best meets your child’s needs. ■ Schedule regular dental and any necessary medical checkups. ■ Encourage your children to choose milk or water at meals instead of sugary drinks, energy drinks with excessive caffeine or pop.

■ Get children active through sports, or go for nightly family walks or bike rides. ■ Develop good hand-washing habits as frequent hand-washing reduces the spread of bacterial, cold and fl u viruses.

Primary Students: ■ Include a variety of fruits and vegetables in your children’s snacks and lunches every day. ■ Include your child when packing lunches so they can learn to make healthy choices early on.

■ Help your children learn about and understand Canada’s Food Guide which encourages a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. ■ Take family walks with your children and, if possible, walk them to school. ■ Join or co-ordinate a Walking school bus or bicycle train to help your children get to school safely with adult supervision. ■ Set up a regular teeth-brushing routine and ensure your children are brushing and fl ossing correctly. ■ Introduce your children to

active games they can play on their own, like hopscotch or jumping rope. When more children are around, introduce tag, soccer or baseball.

I n t e r m e d i a t e / M i d d l e Students: ■ Whenever possible, encourage your children to walk, ride, rollerblade or skateboard to school instead of driving them. ■ Suggest that your children take the dog for a walk before and after school. ■ Limit your children’s screen time. Explain to your children that it’s important to sit less and move more in order to stay at a healthy weight.

■ Continue to encourage healthy eating habits. Use Canada’s Food Guide to plan healthy meals and snacks, as they have different nutritional needs from children and adults. ■ Teach your children to avoid less-nutritious foods, foods high in sugar, fat and sodium, andhelp them learn to replace these foods with more nutritious snacks instead.

Secondary Students: ■ Encourage your teenagers to get involved in intramural or after-school sports. ■ Suggest your teenagers take a class at the local community centre or encourage them to participate in a hiking group. ■ Place your older children in charge of some of the family’smeals so they learn how to prepare healthy foods.

Help kids make healthy choices

AS families across the country gear up for back to school, parents are required to understand the rules at certain peanut-aware schools or daycares before sending snacks or lunches with their children.

To make things easier this year, President’s Choice and No Name brand have clearly marked their peanut-free products.

Here are some other tips the company has on being peanut aware.

Read labels and ingredient lists and teach your kids how to read them, too — every single time.

Understand what peanut-free means — that the product or food in question doesn’t contain peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil, traces or any derivative of peanut at all. Note that it does not necessarily mean it’s tree-nut free, so parents need to readingredient lists to be sure.

Empower kids to ask questions about food origins. Kids with peanut sensitivities shouldn’t eat foods if they don’t know where,how or with what they were made. Parents and kids should be aware of the dangers of cross-contamination — using a knife to spread jam on a piece of bread that might have been used earlier in a peanut butter jar could result in an allergic reaction.

When shopping for school lunches and snacks, avoid buying from bulk food bins. Even if there’s an ingredient list available, you’ll have no idea if it’s been in contact with a peanut productsince scoops inevitably get moved from bin to bin.

The best store-bought “baked” snacks for a peanut-free environment are cookies, crackers and cereals that are properlylabelled and pre-packaged; in a traditional bakery setting, cross-contamination is very possible

There are many snack choices that are nutritious, kid-friendly and don’t contain peanuts, including fruits, vegetables and dairy products.

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FOR plenty of kids, the best part of back to school is stocking up on new school stuff.

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IF you have a research paper to write for school and think you’ll use the Internet to fi nd all of your background information, librarians have two words for you: “Be careful!”

The librarians at the West Vancouver Memorial Library warn there’s a lot of junk out there. They say relying solely on Google to gather your research materials can be problematic. Not only will you run up against broken links, outdated content and inaccurate information disguised as authoritative sources, but by stopping at Google search results researchers are only skimming the surface of all of the resources available to them.

Here are 10 key online databases (available through your library) that can help students make sure that they are being as effective as possible right from the start.■ Literature Criticism Online. A gold mine of reviews and criticism of novels, plays, poetry and other works by over 3,000 contemporary authors.■ Shakespeare for Students. Plot summaries, characters, themes, historical context, criticism and more.

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DO you have fond memories of riding your bike to school as a kid? Chances are, you do.

Thirty years ago, half of all children biked or walked to school regularly. Today, it’s just 13 percent. But biking is making a comeback.

Your children should have these items on each ride to ensure a safe trip to school. ■ Helmet. A properly fi tting bike helmet has been shown to reduce the risk of head injury by up to 85 percent. Bring your kids to your local bike shop with you sothey can pick them out — they’ll be morelikely to wear them if they helped choose them. ■ Lights. Front and rear lights will make your child more visible to motorists. Teach your kid to store the lights in his or her backpack during the day — they’re easy to yank off, and you’ll want to make sure you won’t have to replace them. ■ Bike lock. To be sure your child’s bike will still be at the rack at the end of the school day, buy a lock. Read Bicycling’s lock reviews to decide what to buy. ■ Bell. A quick ding of a bell alerts pedestrians that a cyclist is coming their way on a shared-use path.

Worried about your kid riding to school alone? Arrange a group ride with other children in your neighborhood. Parents can take turns leading the group.

Even kids who live too far from school to bike should learn the rules of the road. Teach your children how to signal and how to anticipate possible bike-car collisions.

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CYCLING is making a comeback as a means of transport to school. To ensure a safe trip, provide your child with the right equipment and go over the rules of the road.

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WITH the fi rst days of college and university quickly approaching, students have a lot to think about: ways to tighten their budgets; effi cient means of getting around campus; and balancing a heavy course load while still maintaining a social life.

During these busy times, it’s easy for students to overlook simple safety precautions to save a buck when moving away from home for the fi rst time or setting up their dorm rooms.

CSA International, a leading testing and certifi cation organization, is sharing the following tips with students to help them avoid accidents and injuries and help ensure a safe and enjoyable school year:■ Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless and lethal gas, also known as the “silent killer.” Make sure that at least one carbon-monoxide alarm is installed near your bedroom.■ Install smoke alarms outside all sleeping areas and test them monthly .■ Space heaters are designed to heat a dormitory room, not to dry clothes, heat food or warm your bed. Always

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Jennifer Lutherjluther@nsnews.com

A large knot formed in my throat; I felt like a boa constrictor trying to swallow a baby hippo.

I’ve been to YVR many times, but now that I’m moving away, I feel like I’m walking to the gallows instead of boarding a fl ight to San Francisco. My parents, faces determinedly set in smiles, are slightly yellow in the indoor lighting.

Once we touch down in the city by the bay, I feel like an alien. Technically, I am an alien — a non-resident of the United States. At the time, I didn’t think this part of California would ever feel like home.

After arriving on campus, my parents and I spent days shopping and accumulating all of the necessary “stuff”: sheets, drawer organizers, hangers, a laundry basket . . . but before I knew it, they were gone.

Like millions of little birds before me, I struggled to fl ap my wings outside of the nest. It took more than a few tumbles before I progressed to awkward fl ight.

The fi rst thing I realized early on at school was that there were no rules. Well, yes, there were rules (those things I had at home), but really, when you’re on your own you make the rules. It’s very strange. There were no parents there to tell me, “It’s 4 a.m. and you have to get up early for a test tomorrow.”

Being self-disciplined is harder when you’re in a strange environment. I didn’t know anyone in the Bay Area at fi rst, so if someone walked into my room at midnight and said, “Hey, we’re going to go jump in the fountains around campus, come with us,” the answer had to be yes. Beggars looking for friends can’t always

be choosey.The more I started making an effort

to get to know people in my classes, in my dorm, and in the dining hall, the more friendships I collected and the less homesick I felt. The more I invested in other people, the more they wanted to get to know me. I will never stop relishing the wide-eyed look I got when I told my new American friends that grizzly bears regularly steal pears from my neighbour’s tree.

I never stopped missing beautiful B.C. Even in my fourth year, I still tacked up posters of Vancouver on my wall, and pointed out North Vancouver on my map

of Canada to anyone unlucky enough to glance at it above my fl oor fan.

But other aspects of my life away from

Flying solo at Stanford U

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ABOVE: Jennifer Luther and her fi eld hockey teammate Nora Soza cheerin the stands for the Stanford Cardinal football team. Below: Luther andher mom Shelley set up her new dorm room.

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our rainy city were exciting enough to slay the ghosts of Vancouver past. My new friends and I made regular pilgrimages to San Francisco, exploring the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, catching rides on cable cars, and walking through the (sometimes naked) crowd at the annual Bay to Breakers, a famous run for costume lovers. Getting to know a new place made me feel alive in a way that I could never feel walking the same streets at home — and I guarantee no one in Vancouver was tailgating at a football game

in December sunshine.That being said, no one can

ever replace the friends and family who have known me for my whole life. Although I was constantly running up my phone bills and swearing over broken-up iChat connections, I knew that I was being tested — I would either sink, weighed down by missing home, or swim.

Most days I just tried to keep my head above water, but it made me learn how to breathe in the chaos, ride the waves, to stretch and reshape.

Leaving home might seem like Mardi Gras at fi rst, or for others, like Eeyore is starting to have a whole

new resonance. Either way, it will only get much, much better while exploring new places, setting some rules (eventually), and meeting new people.

Exploring San Fran an exciting experience

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ABOVE: Splashing around in a fountain at night. At right: Pictures of Vancouver adorn Luther’s wall. Bottom right: Luther celebrates graduation with her friend Kat Swank.

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