Administration Wellness Corner: March is National Nutrition Month!
By: Melanie Martin
Originally created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Nutrition Month is a nutrition education campaign focusing on the importance of making healthy food choices.
2. Remember it takes 11 tries for kids to like something.
The American Heart Association encourages everyone to reduce your risk for heart disease, stroke and other diseases by eating healthier.
3. Don’t force a child to clean their plate.
So keep serving them broccoli! Let them inspect it, and ask them to take at least one bite.
Teach them to eat only until they are full. The recommended portion for children is one tablespoon per age of the child.
In a recent email, Jacob Pennington with the American Heart Association, shared tips on eating healthier. He also shared something interesting, and that is how to feed picky eaters, especially kids. Does your household have at least one of those? Here are 5 tips for dealing with picky eaters: 1. Prepare one meal that everyone likes. Don’t make special meals for the picky eater.
4. Shop and cook with your kids.
empower them.
Let them pick out produce for dinner and let them do age appropriate cooking tasks like stirring or measuring ingredients. Involving them will
5. Serve kids (and adults) fruits and veggies during snack time when they are at their hungriest, but not too close to dinner. Serving salty chips, cookies or even sugary granola bars and artificially-flavored gummy ‘fruit’ snacks can be a quick option, but not the healthiest solution. PAGE 4
