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Healthy Eating Attitudes

Healthy Eating Attitudes. To provide assistance, support and consultation to child care providers in meeting licensing requirements with regards to nutrition. To provide foods and nutrition education, training, technical assistance and resources for licensed child care providers.

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Healthy Eating Attitudes

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  1. Healthy Eating Attitudes

  2. To provide assistance, support and consultation to child care providers in meeting licensing requirements with regards to nutrition. • To provide foods and nutrition education, training, technical assistance and resources for licensed child care providers. • To provide nutrition training and technical assistance for child care licensing staff. • To collaborate and partner with agencies, projects and programs to promote the goal of quality nutrition services provided by licensed child care providers.

  3. www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/new/hccnp

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  5. What is nutrition?

  6. Nutrition is… • The act or process of nourishing or being nourished • The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and utilizes food substances (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)

  7. What affects what and how preschoolers eat? • Physical growth • Language development • Social being development • Fine motor skills development • Environment

  8. Physical Growth (Berk, 1996)

  9. Language Development • 2 years = 200 words, 6 years = 10,000 words • Learn 5 words a day • Language in social context

  10. Social Being Development • Parenting style • Family style meal • Role modeling

  11. Fine Motor Skills • Spoon = 2-3 years old • Fork = 4-5 years old • Knife = 5-6 years old

  12. Environment • Home – types of foods • Physical surroundings • Media exposure

  13. Is this normal? • Will only eat _____ • Will not eat _____ • Holds food in mouth • Always needs to _____ with food • Any other?

  14. My First Food Memory • What was your first memory of food? • Where were you? • Who were you with? • What were you eating? • Was it a pleasant or negative memory?

  15. Environment Role modeling When to eat Menu What to eat How much to eat Whose responsibility is it? Teacher Preschooler

  16. What will they eat? • Variety/Choice • Size • Texture • Attractiveness • Finger foods

  17. Positive Eating Attitude • Positive Environment • Role Model • Appropriate Foods

  18. Hawaii Child Care Nutrition Program 1955 East-West Road, #306 Honolulu, Hawaii 96816 ATTN: Angela Miyamoto www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/new/hccnp

  19. References Berk, L.E. (1996). Infants, Children, and Adolescents (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Kleinman, R.E. (Ed.). (2004). Pediatric Nutrition Handbook (5th ed.). American Academy of Pediatrics. Mish, F.C. (Ed.). (1984). Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc. Satter, E. (2000). Child of Mine: Feeding with love and good sense. Boulder: Bull Publishing Company.

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