Not exact matches
«As the father of two school - age girls, I understand the struggle busy parents often face to find quick,
kid - friendly, organic foods they can feel
good about serving without skimping on the
nutrition their
kids need to thrive.
Then Jenna Pepper, a vegetable and
nutrition enthusiast who blogs over at Food With
Kid Appeal, brought up the point in her excellent article that if we continue to feed them junk food and don't collectively teach our
kids, at home and at school,
about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the
good stuff when given the choice.
If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school
nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching
kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their
best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.
These lessons may not seem like much but these three principles translate everything your
kids need to know
about nutrition into behavior and, in doing so, they lay the foundation for
better eating down the road.
I know that I want every mom that I see at my
kid's school to feel
good about what their
kids are eating for lunch, and I want their
kids to have the proper
nutrition to succeed.
Just think
about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how
well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those
kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for
nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those
kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?
The school meal program is supposed to be
about good nutrition for the
kids; fresh produce is the very definition of
good nutrition.
Schools selling Flaming Hot Cheetos also undermine
nutrition education
about making
good food choices, and that hurts all
kids, not just low income
kids.
Parents can feel
good about this fact because these meals are healthier than ever, which means that
kids get the
good nutrition they need to learn and do their
best in school.
Moderation and rules are not characteristics we often associate with Halloween, but, say child health experts, the holiday can be a
good time to teach your
kids important lessons
about nutrition and dental care.
Dina's the author of It's Not
About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids a Lifetime of Healthy Eating, a thought - provoking book which encourages parents to worry less about nutrition and more about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's
About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your
Kids a Lifetime of Healthy Eating, a thought - provoking book which encourages parents to worry less
about nutrition and more about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's
about nutrition and more
about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's
about instilling
good eating habits — a philosophy that's
well reflected in today's post.
Some aren't
well educated
about nutrition; others opt for highly processed packaged food because they're busy; still others just give their
kids whatever they want to avoid a fight.
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Nutrition Explorations http://www.nutritionexplorations.org The National Dairy Council provides terrific teacher resources, student games, and family information to help
kids learn
about the importance of
good nutrition.
About Blog Teaching moms how
good nutrition, a nontoxic life and following God helps you to raise
kids with disabilities, allergies, autism and medical issues.
About Blog Teaching moms how
good nutrition, a nontoxic life and following God helps you to raise
kids with disabilities, allergies, autism and medical issues.