Dietary Guidelines
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Food Insight: Your Nutrition and Food Safety Resource
Description: The Web site of the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation provides science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers.
Description: This website contains information for child care providers and parents about nutritious food for kids. Included on the site are lesson plans, activity ideas, and training materials. Lessons plans and activity cards come in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese, as well as English.
Description: This Web site was designed to help schools and child care programs meet the goal of having their meal programs reflect the Food Guide Pyramid. It also contains sections on nutrition for parents, educators and students. The resource library contains some materials in Spanish that schools can request.
Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Food Program
Description: This is the Web site for the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Food Program (WIC). It includes information about the program and how to apply.
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Building Strong Families: From Pyramids to Plate 
Description: This Better Kid Care newsletter provides an overview of the new MyPlate icon in healthy eating that is replacing the pyramid concept. It describes how to plan a healthy meal and provides tips on healthy eating.
Choose My Plate (New Nutrition Guidelines)
Description: This Department of Agriculture website provides information on the new nutrition guidelines. There are links and resources for preschoolers, kids, weight loss, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and the general population.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Description: This website contains information on The Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It provides evidence-based nutrition information and advice for people age 2 and older. The guidelines serve as the basis for Federal food and nutrition education programs. Advice is included about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases.
Finding Your Way to a Healthier You: Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Description: Advice about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases.
Access to these brochures and information on how to order/purchase a copy.
Food Labels: A Tool for Making Food Choices
Description: This USDA sharing session provides information on how to use food labels to make healthy food choices for families.
Forming Good Habits in Children to Avoid Obesity
Author: Evers, William
Description: This news brief from Purdue provides information on how to help children develop good habits when it comes to eating. Suggestions, helpful hints, and snack ideas are provided.
Right now your children are forming habits that will last a lifetime. You need to do what you can to encourage good habits and discourage bad ones. Habits are difficult to change. Good habits
need to be formed at a young age. Poor eating habits may result in impaired health or lead to obesity in later life.
Description: Visit this Web page to read the Healthy K.I.D.S. newsletter series. Each issue covers several nutrition and exercise topics related to children. The newsletters are available in English and Spanish.
Description: The International Food Information Council, along with 5 partner
organizations, has launched an educational, interactive web site designed
to teach kids and their families how to stay active and lose weight in
order to live healthier lives.
Licensing Toolkit: User Guide and 3 Action Sheets
Description: The prototype Toolkit is designed to support states' child care licensing personnel and child care providers in promoting children's healthy eating habits and activities.
It focuses on the Caring for Our Children, 3rd edition Standard, "Avoid sugar and concentrated sweets," and consists of a User Guide and three Action Sheets for use by regulators working with: Licensing Agencies, Child Care Providers, or Legislators.
The Toolkit consists of three components: 1) Licensing Agencies’ Action Sheet, 2) Child Care Provider’s Action Sheet, 3) Legislator’s Action Sheet
Description: Congress passed a law that requires every local education agency participating in USDA's school meals program to establish a local wellness policy. This Web site shares information on the new goals for nutrition education, physical activity, and other school-based activities that promote student wellness.
Nibbles for Health: Nutrition Newsletters for Parents of Young Children
Description: Nibbles for Health was developed for child care center staff and parents of young children enrolled in child care centers. This kit offers child care center staff guidance on conducting discussions with parents in three "sharing sessions" and accompanying posters. Also contained in the kit are 41 reproducible newsletters that staff can provide to parents to address many of the challenges they face.
Nutrition for Infants and Toddlers
Description: This website provides information about healthy nutrition for infant and toddlers. Topics include getting started on eathing right, breast feeding basics, formula basics, introducing solid foods, reducing the risk of food allergies, size wize nutrition for toddlers, coping with picky eaters, and feeding vegetarian and vegan infants and toddlers.
Description: This website provides information about healthy nutrition for children and teens. Topics include raising healthy eaters, promoting positive body images, physical activity and kids, eating right to play hard, no more food fights, nutrition for growing bodies, and meal suggestions.
Nutrition for the School-Aged Child
Author: Boeckner, Linda; Schledewitz, Karen
Description: This fact sheet provides information on the nutritional needs of school aged children including portions sizes and offers suggestions for foods and snacks.
Physical Activities and Healthy Snacks for Young Children
Description: Physical Activities and Healthy Snacks for Young Children is a set of cards developed for caregivers that give specific ideas for nearly 50 physical activities and healthy snacks. Each snack card has a coordinated snack menu with serving sizes listed for a CACFP preschool snack. The snack cards include a suggested literacy connection for each recipe. There are corresponding physical activity ideas with directions that include a formation diagram, description to help set up the activity, instructions on how to play, a plan for use and age expectations for the activity.
READ IT: Before you EAT IT poster
Description: This USDA poster provides information on how to use food labels to make healthy food choices for families.
Description: This website provides information about healthy nutrition for reducing childhood obesity. Topics include getting started on eathing right, eating right at school, being active, and meal planning.
Setting the stage: nutrition and physical activity lessons for early childhood settings
Description: This document contains lesson plans with cards for physical activities, nutrition activities, learning center activities and when appropriate, effective use of television to support the overall goals of improved nutrition and physical activities for young children. This activity kit is a companion to the Team Nutrition curriculum for early childhood, Food and Me http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,511/.
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Description: This document contains an adaptation of Changing the Scene, a resource developed by USDA to help improve nutrition environments in schools, to early childhood settings. It includes a self-assessment checklist to help providers identify what they are doing well and areas for improvement. In addition, the resource includes suggested policies and best practices to promote a healthy nutrition and physical activity environment in the early childhood setting.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Description: This fact sheet provides information on the legislation Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. This impacts the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), National School Lunch Program, Summer Food Service Program, and WIC. The provisions for CACFP are focused on the promotion of nutrition and wellness, reducing paperwork, and increasing access to after-school meals for school-age children.
Specific provisions for each program are included.
Tips for Parents: A parent’s guide to children’s weight
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: The University of Georgia's Cooperative Extension Service has provided this revised peice by Don Bower for parents with tips on how help children manage their weight effectively. Whether you concern is that your child is underweight or overweight, this publication provides guidance for families.
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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Description: This fact sheet provides information on the legislation Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. This impacts the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), National School Lunch Program, Summer Food Service Program, and WIC. The provisions for CACFP are focused on the promotion of nutrition and wellness, reducing paperwork, and increasing access to after-school meals for school-age children.
Specific provisions for each program are included.