How to Teach Nutrition to Kids

Author: Connie Liakos Evers
Publisher: Twenty Four Carrot Press
ISBN: 9780964797017
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Create a new nutrition culture for kids! Completely revised and updated, this resource promotes positive attitudes about food, fitness and body image. Features hundreds of fun, hands-on nutrition education activities aimed at children ages 6-12.

Nutrition Education

Author: Isobel Contento
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 0763775088
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
The role of nutrition education is to address the numerous personal and environmental influences on food choices and assist individuals in practicing healthy behaviors. Nutrition Education, Second Edition provides students with a simple, straightforward model to easily design effective nutrition education. Using a six-step process, it integrates theory, research, and practice, providing advice on designing, implementing, and evaluating theory-based nutrition education.

IF YOUR CHILD IS OVERWEIGHT

Author: SUSAN M. KOSHAREK
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880913867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children

Author: Joanne Sorte
Publisher: Pearson Education (Us)
ISBN: 9780135023334
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732

Book Description
This book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through 8 years of age. The book is designed to give future teachers practical, applied, easy-to-understand information that will prepare them to serve young children in the family child care, childcare center, preschool and early primary school setting. Students will find the case scenarios woven throughout the chapters engaging and an effective means to transfer the learning of concepts to real life settings. This transfer of learning is reinforced by web video clips available at the MyEducationlab website that bring what students read and learn to life.

Hands-On Nutrition Education

Author: Renée Hoffinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880919944
Category : Food habits
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
This book will guide you from the theoretical underpinnings of hands-on nutrition education (HONE) programs to the tools necessary to turn that theory into practice and customize a program for your target population. Learn practical guidelines for different types of HONE activities, including: Food demonstrations; Grocery store tours; Cooking classes; Development and management of institutional HONE programs. Resources include equipment lists, cooking class materials, resource planning sheets, medical documentation guide, program surveys and evaluations, sample funding proposal and much more.

Nutrition Facts for Kids

Author: Maryse A. Rouffaer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781493511815
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Finally a book with real information about real food for real children of ages 8-12. Maryse Rouffaer, CHHC, gives the children the facts about nutrition. By giving children basic and more advanced knowledge about their nutrition, children will be empowered to make better choices for their short term and long term health, especially when their parents are informed as well.

The Science of Nutrition

Author: Janice Thompson
Publisher: Pearson Educacion
ISBN: 9780321883650
Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 976

Book Description
The Science of Nutrition, Third Edition offers the best combination of text and media to help students master the toughest nutrition concepts in the course, while providing the richest support to save instructors time. This thoroughly current, research-based nutrition text is uniquely organized around the highly regarded applied approach, which organizes vitamins and minerals based on their functions within the body and is easily seen in the organization of the micronutrient (vitamin and mineral) chapters. Rather than requiring rote memorization, the authors present the micronutrients based on their functions (such as fluid and electrolyte balance, antioxidant function, bone health, energy metabolism, and blood health and immunity), so that students can fully understand their effects on the body.

Nutrition

Author: Janice Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781256339212
Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 579

Book Description

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids

Author: Connie Liakos Evers
Publisher: Twenty Four Carrot Press
ISBN: 9780964797000
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Teaching nutrition to children early and often is the key to developing healthy eating habits. The fourth edition of How to Teach Nutrition to Kids includes over 200 cross-curricular activities featuring the MyPlate food guide, children's books, gardening, recipes, food art, label reading, fitness and more. Fun, integrated, and behavior-focused, How to Teach Nutrition to Kids weaves nutrition education with math, science, language arts, social studies, performing arts, physical education, health education and the school cafeteria.Packed with ideas that empower children to evaluate nutrition information, make smart food choices and creatively prepare food, this book is used in schools, hospitals, scouting programs, 4-H, summer camps, and many other youth-focused initiatives.

Eat Like a Champion

Author: Jill Castle
Publisher: AMACOM
ISBN: 0814436234
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
It’s hard keeping up with the nutritional needs for kids, and even harder getting them to actually eat many of these foods. Learn how to get your athlete on the right track. With athletic kids, there’s even more to pay attention to! Most young athletes are not eating properly to compete--too many convenient but empty calories that are doing them more harm than good. As a result, these young athletes are losing energy when they should be increasing it, feeling deterred when they should be motivated, and decreasing muscle mass when they need it more than ever. Fortunately, with the right nutrition, young athletes can increase their energy, bolster their motivation, gain muscle mass, overcome fatigue, and improve their performance. Registered dietitian and childhood nutrition expert Jill Castle has written this must-read resource for every parent of active kids ages eight through eighteen. In Eat Like a Champion, parents will find help in: Tailoring diets for training, competition, and even off-season Finding the best food options, whether at home or on the go Addressing counterproductive or unhealthy patterns Understanding where supplements, sports drinks, and performance-enhancing substances do--and don’t--fit in Complete with charts, recipes, and practical meal and snack ideas that can help athletic youngsters eat to win, Eat Like a Champion just may be the difference-maker in your athlete’s next game!