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Nutrition Building Blocks

Nutrition Building Blocks. MVPA TIME. MIX/STIR. SHAKE. POUND. ROLL. Nourish Yourselves!. Describe strategies to build healthy nutrition preferences in children and adults Empower adults to “choose” healthy foods and portions Explore attitudes, cultures and beliefs about food

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Nutrition Building Blocks

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  1. Nutrition Building Blocks

  2. MVPA TIME MIX/STIR SHAKE POUND ROLL

  3. Nourish Yourselves! • Describe strategies to build healthy nutrition preferences in children and adults • Empower adults to “choose” healthy foods and portions • Explore attitudes, cultures and beliefs about food • Share creative ways to enjoy healthy foods

  4. Is this child being “fed” or “nourished”?

  5. NUTRITIONAL AWARENESS (Healthy eating and drinking) Food and Drink Choices Food and Drink Sources Food and Drink Characteristics Food and Drink Skills Mealtime Behavior

  6. Nutritional Awareness (Nutritional Awareness) “I am learning ABOUT healthy eating and drinking” Food & Drink Choices Healthy Not So Healthy Variety Meals Snacks Culture Food & Drink Sources Animals Soil Trees Plants Mealtime Behaviors Table setting Chewing Enjoying Pacing Portions Manners Food & Drink Characteristics Color Shapes Smell Texture Tastes Sizes Flavors Temperatures Crave Your F.A.V. Food & Drink Skills Scrubbing Scooping Dipping Mixing Stirring Spreading Pouring Utensil Use Peeling Tearing Storing Kneading Breaking Washing Mashing Slicing Rolling Measuring Squeezing Snapping

  7. Associations between nutrition and... • Learning readiness • Academic achievement • Decreased discipline and emotional problems

  8. Make Peace at Meals “Feeding children should be a shared responsibility… the parent or caregiver is responsible for WHAT, WHEN and WHERE; the child is responsible for HOW MUCH and even WHETHER.” Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense How to Get Your Kid to Eat – But Not Too Much by Ellyn Satter, RD, MSW

  9. Feeding Children Well - Ellyn Satter, RD, MSW • Children will eat • Capable of self-regulation early in life • Generally react negatively to new foods but will usually accept them with time and experience • Parents and caregivers can either support or disrupt this process of self-regulation

  10. Food Preferences and Acceptance of New Foods • Repeated experiences with new foods increases both infants’ and 2-to-5-year-olds’ preferences for those foods • Tasting new foods promotes increased liking and eating; looking or smelling is not enough. - Leann L Birch, PhD, Center for Childhood Obesity Research Pennsylvania State University

  11. Adult Responsibility – Create the Right Start • Offer wholesome choices - plenty of color and a variety of nutritious foods • Provide pleasant, supportive environment for structured meals • Use age-appropriate setting and utensils • Stand aside and trust the child to regulate their energy intake

  12. Be Choosy, Be Nourished • Crave Your F.A.V. (Fruits & Veggies) • Applaud healthy appetites • Crave your colors • Plant and prepare • Let nature nourish you

  13. Farmers Market Friday

  14. Something I Crave means something I like It means I think about it everyday and night Right now all I’m thinking about is my F.A.V. My FAV , That’s Right And I’ll tell you what it means Whoo Hoo, the F is for the fruits and Whoo Hoo, the V is for the vegetables

  15. When I crave my FAV My heart feels better When I crave my FAV My bones get stronger When I crave my FAV My muscles get bigger When I crave my FAV My legs jump higher

  16. Alright, this time I want everybody in the room to Sing out about their F.A.V Their FAV Fruits and vegetables! Okay? Here we go Whoo Hoo, the F is for the fruits and Whoo Hoo, the V is for the vegetables

  17. When I crave my FAV My heart feels better When I crave my FAV My bones get stronger When I crave my FAV My muscles get bigger When I crave my FAV My legs jump higher 2x -repeat

  18. Be Choosy Be Nourished • Shop the Sides • A little from the middle • Drive to the side • Parent power • Shop and show • Learn from labels

  19. Essential Nutrients - Iron • Brain cells need iron for energy and neurotransmitter production • Iron deficiency associated with delays in cognitive and motor development • Do nutritional assessments for all families (not just cultural or religious preferences) • Excessive milk intake (>24 oz/day) • Food insecurity

  20. What strategies work? • How do you educate adults and children to “Shop the Sides”? • How do you role-model healthy choices? • How do you “learn from labels”?

  21. Be Choosy Be Nourished • Drink Less Sugar • Be sugar free • Water your kids • Water your juice • Hydrate for health • Flavor your water The rule of 2 Drink “2-glasses of H20” before 2 o’clock and Drink “2-glasses of H20” after 2 o’clock

  22. Strategies that work? • How do you educate adults and children to “Drink Less Sugar”? • Are you watering your children and families?

  23. Attain a Healthy Weight • BMI growth charts (CDC) • at risk for overweight (85th - 95th percentile) • overweight (95th percentile and above) • Critical periods for long-term effects • “adiposity rebound” (4 to 7 years)

  24. Be Choosy Be Nourished • Think Tiny Tummies • Think small serving sizes (1 T/year of age) • Portion power • Don’t force feed • Keep trying • Balance is better • “New” nutrition • “Satiety”

  25. Family and Cultural Influences • Mother’s nutrition knowledge and health awareness • More important in preschool • Associated with reduced fat and saturated fat, higher fiber • Mother’s likes and dislikes

  26. Other Influences • Exposure to new foods (10 to 15) • Portion Sizes: 4-5 year olds are losing the ability to self-regulate; they eat what you put on their plates • Rigid control backfires

  27. Why do we SUPER SIZE children and ourselves? or

  28. Avoid Portion Distortion How food portion sizes have changed in 20 years From “Portion Distortion” by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion

  29. Larger Portions Add Up 10 pound weight gain per year 100 extra calories per day Maintaining a Healthy Weight is a Balancing Act Calories In = Calories Out

  30. Bagels Past & Present 20 Years Ago Today 140 calories 3-inch diameter 350 calories 6-inch diameter Calorie Difference: 210 calories

  31. Muffins Past & Present 20 Years Ago Today 210 calories 1.5 ounces 500 calories 4 ounces Calorie difference: 290 calories

  32. Popcorn Past & Present 20 Years Ago Today 270 calories5 cups 630 calories11 cups Calorie difference: 360 calories

  33. Coffee Past & Present 20 Years Ago Coffee(with whole milk and sugar) Today Mocha Coffee(with steamed whole milk and mocha syrup) 45 calories 8 ounces 350 calories 16 ounces Calorie difference: 305 calories

  34. Pepperoni Pizza Past & Present 20 Years Ago Today 500 calories 850 calories Calorie difference: 350 calories

  35. Spaghetti and Meatballs Past & Present 20 Years Ago Today 500 calories 1 cup spaghetti with sauce and 3 small meatballs 1,025 calories 2 cups of pasta with sauce and 3 large meatballs Calorie difference: 525 calories

  36. Strategies that work? • How do you teach adults and children about appropriate portion sizes? • How do you partner with your community (e.g. school district) to address Performance Standards and USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Requirements?

  37. Lets make a healthy soup out of yummy colors When I say YELLOW is … You say YUMMY Yellow is – YUMMY! Yellow is – YUMMY! repeat

  38. Now peel your yellow bananas peel your yellow corn peel your yellow apple Choosy’s in the kitchen getting things warm

  39. Now throw it in the pot and stir the soup Stir the soup Stir the soup (repeat 2x times)

  40. When I say GREEN is … You say GREAT! GREEN is – GREAT! GREEN is – GREAT! Repeat

  41. Now chop your green broccoli Chop your green spinach Chop your green pears This will taste so good when we are finished

  42. Now throw it in the pot and stir the soup Stir the soup Stir the soup (repeat 2x times)

  43. When I say REDreally… You say …ROCKS! RED really … ROCKS! RED really … ROCKS! Repeat

  44. Now pick your red cherries pick your red beets pick your red tomatoes The healthy soup is ready to eat

  45. Now throw it in the pot and stir the soup Stir the soup Stir the soup (repeat 4x times)

  46. Be Choosy Be Nourished • Chat ‘n’ Chew • Slow down • Do See Do • Family time • Pleasant please! • Turn it off

  47. Be Choosy Be Nourished • Choosy Snacks • Planned snacking • Edible art • Make it easy

  48. Strategies that work? • How do you make a “healthy” choice the “easy” choice? • What is one thing you want to do to improve nutrition in your own life?

  49. 8 Simple Rules to Build Healthy Food Habits Recognize children’s appetites vary from day to day and meal to meal Time meals and snacks to allow hunger, but not too much Allow food jags to run their course Don’t insist on the “Clean Plate Club”

  50. 8 Simple Rules to Build Healthy Food Habits 5. Present food without comment about food likes and dislikes 6. Don’t use food as a reward (good food v. bad food) 7. Don’t bargain, bribe, lecture, shame, or threaten

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