Healthy Choices
Nutrition to Grow On is an innovative middle-school curriculum that offers teachers a direct link between the garden and nutrition education. The curriculum teaches children about nutrition and where their food comes from, by taking them through the steps of planting, maintaining, and harvesting their own vegetable garden.
In response to the childhood obesity epidemic, much research has been conducted on school-based obesity prevention and healthy eating and physical activity promotion and intervention. The Centers for Disease Control's new guidelines in this report synthesize the scientific evidence and best practices during 1995-2009 and combine healthy eating and...
This website offers free resources for LA County health professionals and educators including publications and videos. Choose Health LA was a local initiative of the LA County Department of Public Health to prevent and control chronic disease.
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A nationwide team of AmeriCorps members who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy by partnering with schools to help provide food and nutrition education, lead hands-on activities such as gardening and cooking, and work with school food directors and staff to integrate healthier foods into breakfast, lunch, snack programs, and more....
Our Food Chain promotes healthy eating by using media to educate and inspire parents, children, communities, and policy makers to get involved in their school lunch programs and improve the food options in their homes and in their communities.
Its award-winning hour-long documentary, which can be viewed on its website, is based on innovations in...
Smarter Lunchrooms use easy no-cost and low-cost changes to encourage students to select, eat, and enjoy healthier foods in school without eliminating their abiliy to choose. The Movement's mission is to equip school lunchrooms with evidence-based tools that improve eating behaviors and thus improve the health of children. These interventions can also...
This article includes an assessment of the potential and challenges of the elementary school cafeteria as a setting and resource for nutrition education, with evaluation of the development and implementation of a toolkit for nutrition education by elementary food services staff.
The goal of the project was to take advantage of the potential of...
