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Feeding Strategies to Support Children’s Healthy Weight (Insert your name here)

Feeding Strategies to Support Children’s Healthy Weight (Insert your name here). Workshop Presentation. Feeding Strategies to Support Children’s Healthy Weight.

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Feeding Strategies to Support Children’s Healthy Weight (Insert your name here)

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  1. Feeding Strategies to Support Children’s Healthy Weight(Insert your name here) Workshop Presentation

  2. Feeding Strategies to Support Children’s Healthy Weight This presentation is intended for trainers to provide detailed information about supporting children’s healthy growth and preventing overweight. The project was supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA National Research Initiative Grant # 2006-55215-16726

  3. Objectives Learner will be able to: • Describe feeding strategies to support a healthy weight. • Identify specific actions to support children’s healthy weight. • Recognize the adult role in supporting children’s healthy weight.

  4. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Adults should eat with children.

  5. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Children learn to eat what they are offered! • Offer a variety of foods!

  6. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Offer children small portions and but reassure them they can have more if they are hungry!

  7. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Let children determine how much and serve themselves!

  8. Serving Self Reinforces internal cues Self-regulation

  9. Adults’ eyes are bigger than children’s stomachs!

  10. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Regular scheduled meals and snacks!

  11. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Create positive and pleasant mealtimes!

  12. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Physical Environment • eating location • furniture • dishes • utensils

  13. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Emotional Environment • pleasantness • limits • manners

  14. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Auditory Environment • level of sounds in room • level of conversation

  15. What feeding strategies are you using?

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