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How Can Schools Help Shape Healthy Eaters?
Helping kids make healthy food choices can be a challenge given today’s environment. Learn how innate taste preferences, food likes and dislikes, and parent-child dynamics shape the eating habits of the school-age child. Find out how kids’ food choices, meals, and nutrition intake stack up against recommendations. Explore case studies and action plans for school food service that can help children to become healthier eaters and learn to make healthy choices in school and at home.
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Rise and Shine! New Reasons to Get Up and Eat School Breakfast
Breakfast has long been touted as the most important meal of the day. Unfortunately, more and more kids–as well as adults–are skipping breakfast and missing out on its benefits. In addition to the well known studies demonstrating breakfast improves nutrient intakes and academic performance, new research studies show that breakfast also plays a role in weight management. Come get the skinny on breakfast research and learn about ways to help increase participation in your school.
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Whole Grain: Get the Whole Grain Story
Experts agree...whole grains are an important part of a healthy diet. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines and My Pyramid include specific recommendations for whole grains and, the re-authorized Child Nutrition Act includes guidance to increase whole grain foods served in the National School Lunch Program. Yet despite expert recommendations that we eat more whole grains, most Americans–including children–are missing out.
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Nourishing Children’s Lives Through School Meals
Hear about exciting, new research on how school meals play an important role in nourishing the lives of children. Learn how: The school breakfast and lunch programs impact nutrient and caloric intakes Reasons why students participate or not in the school breakfast program Ways to grow your school breakfast program And much more!
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