Nutrition Information
For KIDS
For PARENTS
For TEACHERS
General Nutrition Information
NEW Dietary
Guidelines and the Food Pyramid
For KIDS
Smart
Mouth
This Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Web site
helps kids understand food advertising and encourages them
to make smart decisions about what arehealthy and not healthy
food choices.
5
a Day For Kids
Information, activities, fun links, and recipes that encourage
eating more fruits and vegetables, sponsored by the Produce
for Better Health Foundation, a consumer education foundation
whose mission is to help create a healthier America through
increased consumption of a variety of fruits and vegetables.
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For PARENTS
Packing a Healthy Lunch
10
tips (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
As
Easy as ABC (Children's Nutrition Research Center)
Organic
Lunchbox Challenge
Developed by Stonyfield Farm. Take one step toward improving
your child's nutrition by taking the Organic Lunchbox Challenge.
Switch at least one unhealthy food (chips, cookie) in your
child's lunch to one organic item each day. The switch to
organic foods is one of the simplest things parents can do
to help safeguard their children’s health. Check out the Shopper's
Guide to Pesticides and Organic:
A Choice for Our Children.
Feed Your Brain
Check you this new book by Philippa Norman, M.D., M.P.H.,
a book to help you and your children choose healthy foods.
Dr. Norman is a holistic physician who participates in Green
Earth Institute activities and works with families and schools
to promote nutrition and holistic heath. Also, read Nourishing
Your Child's Brain, a short essay that provides basic
guidelines for choosing foods that will help nourish your
child's brain.
Nourishing
Our Children
Elson M. Haas, M.D., provides ten guidelines for parents to
teach their children good nutritional habits. Published in
Conscious Choice. Dr. Haas is the medical director
of the Preventative Medical Center in Marin, California, and
author of several books, including Staying Healthy With Nutrition:
The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine.
Healthy
Children, Healthy Choices
Tips and guidance from the Center for Disease Control to help
parents improve the nutritional quality of the food they serve
their children.
5 A Day
5 A Day for Better Health is a national program and partnership
that seeks to increase the number of daily servings of fruits
and vegetables Americans eat to five or more. The 5 A Day
program provides easy ways to add more fruits and vegetables
into your daily eating patterns.
Center
for Disease Control - 5 A Day
Produce for
Better Health Foundation
Dole Food
Company
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For TEACHERS
Teacher
Resources
Lesson plans, curricula, and grant resources to encourage
the consumption of whole, unrefined grains, fresh fruits and
vegetables. Developed by Citizens
for Healthy Options in Children's Education.
There's
a Rainbow on My Plate
For elementary school age children. In partnership with Dole
Food Company Inc. and Crayola® brand, Produce for Better Health
Foundation is offering “There’s a Rainbow on My Plate,” a
free nutrition education curriculum that encourages kindergarten
through sixth grade students to develop healthy eating habits.
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General Nutrition Information
The
Nutrition Source
Maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School
of Public Health, this website is designed to get you started
down the path toward the healthiest diet possible. At the
Nutrition Source, we explore the latest science about healthy
eating for adults, answering key questions about what you
should eat.
The American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes
Association, and the American Heart Association have joined
forces to advocate for healthy choices for healthy living.
They have a nice summary
of key nutrition information.
Diet
and Nutrition - American Heart Association
Children's
Nutrition Research Center - Baylor University
The Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) is one of
six federally funded human nutrition research centers in the
nation and the first to conduct scientific investigations
into the role of maternal, infant and child nutrition in optimal
health, development, and growth. Sign up for their free nutrition
newsletter.
Fruits, Vegetables, and Whole Grains
Everyone agrees that Americans should have more fruits,
vegetables, and whole grains in their diets. Whether or not
you want to be vegetarian, the following websites provide
a host of helpful information and vegetarian recipes.
5
a Day, the Color Way: sponsored by the Produce for Better
Health Foundation, a consumer education foundation whose
mission is to help create a healthier America through increased
consumption of a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Dietary Guidelines
and the Food Pyramid
The new Dietary
Guidelines for Americans 2005 was released by the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture
(USDA) on January 12, 2005. These Guidelines will be used
to revise the standards for Federal school food programs but
the timeline for those changes is not available.
NEW The new
Food Pyramid and associated website was unveiled on April
19, 2005 and is available on the USDA website.
The following articles review the Dietary Guidelines and
provide comments by nutrition experts:
New
York Time, January 13, 2005
Boston
Globe, January 13, 2005
NEW For a critique of
the new food pyramid (the image and the implicit messages),
see the following:
Informed
Eating: A Newsletter of Food Politics & Analysis (May
2005)
The following articles (published before the Dietary Guidelines
were released) incorporate the latest scientific findings
about what makes a healthy diet:
What's
the Best Diet for Kids? (Children's Nutrition Research
Center, Baylor College of Medicine, November 2004)
Rebuilding
the Food Pyramid (Scientific American, January 2003)
Food
Pyramids - What You Should Really Eat (Harvard School
of Public Health)
Food
Pyramid - The Shape of a Healthy Diet (The Mayo Clinc)
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