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How to Incorporate Healthy Eating in Childcare Settings

Written by Megan Hlavacek | May 7, 2018 5:00:00 AM

Childcare practitioners share ideas and challenges with implementing healthy food at the YMCA Sandusky Childcare Center in Ohio. 3 key pieces of advice...

    1. Start small
    1. Tackle one thing at a time
    1. Keep trying

 

 

Practitioners also share the steps they took to support the important transition to incorporate healthy food into their childcare center.

    • Moving to whole grains
    • Eliminating flavored milks
    • Eating family style
    • Offering a healthy food curriculum
    • Sending home recipes

 

 

Source: The videos are from the Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP) study. BCOP is a collaboration between The Ohio State University SNAP-Ed program; the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University; and the Ohio Department of Health, Creating Healthy Communities Program.