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Healthy Start for Life provides a course for parents and child care providers presented in a PowerPoint style format. This course can be downloaded and used by parents or caregivers as a self-directed learning session. It can also be downloaded on to a personal computer or printed on transparencies for a presentation to a group of parents or child care providers. The course is presented in four lessons: Topic 1. Feeding preschoolers. Covers the importance of healthy eating, healthy growth and development, four food groups, preschooler serving sizes, nutrient needs, key sources of nutrients, and vitamin supplements.
Topic 2. The Picky Eater. Covers the eating habits, food preferences and feeding issues of preschoolers and how to manage them. The importance of eating well together as a family and strategies to help this happen.
Topic 3. Menu Planning for Preschoolers. Covers how to plan healthy meals and snacks based on the food guide, foods that can cause choking, snacking and dental health, vegetarian preschoolers, foods allergies and food intolerances, and food safety.
Topic 4. Active Preschoolers. Covers the benefits of regular activity for preschoolers, what active living means, the kinds and amounts of activity appropriate for preschoolers, exercises and activities for preschoolers, the importance of families being active together and strategies to help this happen.
HTML: This version allows you to view the presentation online. To view the course in a full screen, click the button on the bottom-right side of the page. To end the show, right click on your mouse and select "end show". Your input is important to us. Please tell us what you think by filling out a short feedback survey.
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