Feeding Children's Bodies: Fueling Growth
and Promoting Health
Childhood is a time when eating habits and behaviors
are molded. The goal of a good nutrition program in day care is to promote continued
health, growth and development. Feeding Children's Bodies addresses the basic nutrition
needs of preschool children between the ages of one and five and suggests that the day
care provider begin to implement small, but significant changes to enhance the nutrition
program. Begin by identifying problem areas within the existing program. Once a nutritional
concern is identified, it is recommended that you choose a solution to the problem or goal
that you know you can achieve. With that goal in mind, you can map out the specific
changes that can be made to comprehensively improve your nutrition program. Taking a STEP-wise
(Strategies, Teaching children, Educating families and Planning
for change) approach to improving the nutrition program involves not only making changes
in the foods served, but including children, their families, and the day care staff in the
process as well. Each has a role in fueling growth and promoting health in children.
Childhood is a time when eating habits and behaviors
are molded. The goal of a good nutrition program in day care is to promote continued
health, growth and development. Feeding Children's Bodies addresses the basic nutrition
needs of preschool children between the ages of one and five and suggests that the day
care provider begin to implement small, but significant changes to enhance the nutrition
program. Begin by identifying problem areas within the existing program. Once a nutritional
concern is identified, it is recommended that you choose a solution to the problem or goal
that you know you can achieve. With that goal in mind, you can map out the specific
changes that can be made to comprehensively improve your nutrition program. Taking a STEP-wise
(Strategies, Teaching children, Educating families and Planning
for change) approach to improving the nutrition program involves not only making changes
in the foods served, but including children, their families, and the day care staff in the
process as well. Each has a role in fueling growth and promoting health in children.