Healthy Eating Attitudes

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Healthy Eating Attitudes
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• 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.

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What is nutrition?
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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

(Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
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What affects what and how preschoolers eat?

• Physical growth
• Language development
• Social being development
• Fine motor skills development
• Environment

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Physical Growth
(Berk, 1996)
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Language Development

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

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Social Being Development

• Parenting style
• Family style meal
• Role modeling

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Fine Motor Skills

• Spoon 2-3 years old
• Fork 4-5 years old
• Knife 5-6 years old

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Environment

• Home types of foods
• Physical surroundings
• Media exposure

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Is this normal?

• Will only eat _____
• Will not eat _____
• Holds food in mouth
• Always needs to _____ with food
• Any other?

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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?

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Whose responsibility is it?
Teacher
Preschooler

• Environment
• Role modeling
• When to eat
• Menu

• What to eat
• How much to eat

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What will they eat?

• Variety/Choice
• Size
• Texture
• Attractiveness
• Finger foods

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Positive Eating Attitude

• Positive Environment
• Role Model
• Appropriate Foods

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Hawaii Child Care Nutrition Program 1955
East-West Road, 306 Honolulu, Hawaii 96816 ATTN
Angela Miyamoto
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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). Websters 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.