University of Maine Cooperative Extension demonstrates how to make & store your own baby food using fruits or vegetables.
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ACCESS Healthy Kids Program Children’s Fitness
Our Healthy Kids Project (HKP) here at ACCESS aims to promote healthier lifestyles for children, ages 5-10 years old, and their parents through active learning about physical activity, nutrition, environmental health and mental health. The goal of HKP is to try to help make living a healthy life fun and easy while engaging not only children but parents. This is the perfect opportunity for families to learn how daily behaviors impact personal health now and their influence on future health. It is possible to make a large impact by just a small change. Group sessions include height, weight, and blood pressure screening for children, health screenings and referrals, food preparation techniques, how to read nutrition labels, physical activity opportunities, safer household cleansers and a fieldtrip for families who attend regularly. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Hughes, MPH Coordinator, Healthy Kids Project at ehughes@accesscommunity.org
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UNICEF: Food crisis ravages India’s poorest children
GURAVAL VILLAGE, Madhya Pradesh, India, 9 June 2008 — Despite a robust economy with 9 per cent annual growth in recent years, inflation and the food crisis in India now threaten to erode many of the gains made here. In order to address both the complex situation causing high rates of child malnutrition in India, the retail giant IKEA is supporting UNICEF India with an million package of health, nutrition, and water and sanitation programmes over the next five years. In the state of Madhya Pradesh, which has the highest child mortality and child malnutrition rates in the country, government supplementary programmes are under threat. Community workers have complained that they can no longer give severely malnourished children a healthy, balanced diet out of the 2 Rupees per day that they receive from government for each child. www.unicef.org
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Healthy Kids Tool Kit
The Healthy Kids Toolkit is a unique online interactive educational tool created for the Apps for Healthy Kids contest. The Toolkit has been designed to educate parents about how they and their families can live healthier lifestyles through better nutrition and physical activity. It combines healthy eating and exercise behavior resources from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) into one place. By incorporating emerging digital technologies such as avatars and ‘edutainment gaming’ designs, and leveraging them with interactive opportunities for the user to create and share additional content, the Healthy Kids Toolkit delivers a set of creative and informative tactics to bring web content to life. By making web content more engaging, the main messages will hopefully be better retained. The Healthy Kids Toolkit uses contemporary digital communications tools to appeal to new parents who don’t necessarily know healthy nutrition behaviors themselves. It is designed to provide an engaging and interactive opportunity for new parents to rehearse and assess the “important role that he/she plays in the formation of nutrition and physical activity habits in young children. There are countless opportunities every day to positively impact the children’s lives; small changes in the child care provider’s attitudes and …
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Marketing Junk Food to Kids – Marion Nestle
Complete video at: fora.tv NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children. —– Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of Nutrition and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat, gives a talk entitled What to Eat: Personal Responsibility or Social Responsibility. Nestle discusses the US food system including supermarket strategies. She informs and advises the audience at the Chautauqua Institution’s 2008 program about what and how to eat. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an MPH in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.