1/21/2014 A healthy life starts with you. Why Focus on Healthy - - PDF document
1/21/2014 A healthy life starts with you. Why Focus on Healthy Habits in Child Care? 2 Where Children Spend Time Community/ Family 8% After School 13% Sleep 46% Child Care/School 29% Parents 4% 3 3 1 1/21/2014 Role of Early
A healthy life starts with you.
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Sleep 46% Parents 4% Child Care/School 29% After School 13% Community/ Family 8%
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Osteoporosis for Mom
Moms burn up to 500 calories a day breastfeeding
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Costs less to Breastfeed
$3,650/year!
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Trust children to listen to their bodies – they will eat when they are hungry… …and they know when they have eaten enough
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Allow children to serve themselves the amount they would like Helps develop fine motor skills and social skills Children eat more healthy foods when they have a choice
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Offer new and healthy foods, even if a child doesn’t eat it at first It can take up to 21 times of trying a new food before a child will like it
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the nutrients
Children get the nutrients they need over a series of meals – not at one sitting Include fruits and vegetables at all meals so that there is a greater chance of them getting the nutrients they need
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Helps children grow strong, and the iron found in protein sources helps with cognitive development
are high in fat and salt
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whole grain bread
Watch out for food that has already been fried and frozen
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rice as a side dish
meat for a colorful and tasty mixed dish
cheese or bananas and peanut butter for afternoon snacks
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Start Here Check Calories Get Plenty of These Limit These
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100% Orange Juice Whole Orange
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Chicken Nuggets Grilled Chicken Breast
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because it has fluoride
may be safer too
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New law says water must be available throughout the day
Make it fun by adding lemon slices
Keep it cold to make it taste better
and older)
natural
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likely to eat fruits and vegetables and continue these habits throughout life
efficacy and better bonding with friends and parents
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Math and Science: create a graph of the children’s preferences for a certain food, talk about the different sizes of fruits and vegetables Language: at meals, have children describe the food they are eating using words to tell about the colors and shapes of the food Socialization: making healthy food choices, have a conversation about the different choices and why one is preferable to another
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At our child care setting we celebrate parties by doing __________ instead of bringing sweets. Other ways to celebrate:
when the child was born
candies
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Ashley Henderson, MPH Program Coordinator, Eat Play Grow 323-274-1388 Ashley.Henderson@ccala.net
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