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Position of the American
Dietetic Association:
Benchmarks for Nutrition
in Child Care
By: Miranda Bender and Kaitlin Schreader
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Introduction
• Child care centers need to work with a food and nutrition practitioner to help with nutritional requirement values.
• The American Dietetic Association is concerned about the absence of nutrition in child care centers.
• Children ages between 2 and 5 are most likely to be in a child care center, and stick to the habits learned during this age range.
• The American Dietetics Association recommends that child care centers should reach the recommended nutritional values for children each day.
• Through working with someone with a nutrition background, they want to promote live a healthy life style.
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Nutritional Quality of Foods and Beverages Served
• The ADA recommends “foods and beverages served should be nutritionally adequate and consistent with the dietary guidelines for Americans”.
• A healthy diet should include whole grains, vegetables, low fat dairy products and fruits should be offered everyday to children.
• There should be limitations on foods and beverages high in sodium, energy, and sugar.
• Child care centers need to limit the juice intake to 4-6 oz. because it is offered frequently at home.
• Taking in too much sugar from juice can lead to obesity later in a child’s life.
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Menus, Meal Patterns, and Portion Sizes
• A healthy diet uses portion sizes and meal patterns as tools to set healthy eating habits.
• Programs should include a menu that offers a variety of foods in a healthy way.
• Children should eat every two to three hours to ensure the children reach daily nutritional content.
• Child and adult care food program (CACFP) participation can help with providing information and benefits for going healthy.
• CACFP offers money back for healthy food served for children who are in need.
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Lunch is in the Bag• The Dietary Guidelines for Americans has completed an
experiment called Lunch is in the Bag.
• It was a nutritional experiment geared towards what is in the average preschoolers snacks and lunches ate in the child care program.
• This can also help us see where the Dietary Guidelines for Americans could help us in becoming a little more strict to change dietary habits.
• Even though there are minimal amounts of fruits and vegetables in kid’s lunches, the lunches made from home are most influential when parents make them.
• With children taking more processed foods in their lunches obesity is a high risk.
Swiester, Sara, Margaret Briley, Cindy Roberts-Gray, Deanna Hoelschler, Ronald Harrist, Deanna Staskel, & Fawas Almansour. (2011). Psychological outcomes of lunch is in the bag, a parent program for packing healthful lunches for preschool children. Journal of nutrition, education and behavior. 43 (6). 536-542
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Food Preparation and Services
• Food should be made and given to the children in a safe and germ free environment.
• Eating utensils, chairs and tables should be the proper size according to age of the child.
• Providers should encourage healthy eating and participate in healthy eating to be looked at as a model for children.
• Nutrition labels should be examined for foods containing common allergies, so anaphylaxis is less likely to happen in the hands of a child care provider.
• Some of the most common allergies to pay attention to is milk and peanut products.
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Physical and Social Eating Environment
• It has been proven that children try to mimic adult behaviors, therefore adults should try to eat healthy in front of the children.
• A child can know they are hungry because of the feeling full sensation at age five.
• Serving foods family style can help a child learn when they are full.
• Negative reflections at the dinner table can reflect a child’s eating habits.
• Pressuring a child to eat something they don’t want to, can lead to picky eating in the future.
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Nutrition Training
• Employees should understand the basic principals of childhood nutrition and be able to help get children to have healthy eating habits.
• Employees should have offered training to teach them healthy eating habits in their life.
• Cooks should know how to plan and prepare meals in a safe way.
• Child care providers should help to teach children the basic knowledge of nutrition.
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Nutrition Consultation
• Consultations can help to assist with menu planning.
• Tools and assessments such as my pyramid or my plate, are available to these practitioners so they can help providers teach children how to eat nutritiously.
• Eight states require that child care providers work with food and nutrition practitioners.
• 39 states require menu posting as apart of their regulations.
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Physical Activity and Active Play
• Weight related behaviors start in childhood and become a problem over time.
• Physical activity promotes a healthy weight and cardiovascular fitness.
• Children should get 60 minutes of physical activity everyday.
• Providers should give children their opportunity to get 60 minutes of physical activity.
• Children are more active when their outdoors.
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Working with Families
• Child care centers should have guidelines or policies to show what foods are not allowed.
• A study showed that lunches from home lack nutrition that kids need every day.
• These lunches lacked fruits, vegetables, and dairy products.
• Information for healthy lunches should go home to families so the things above won’t happen anymore.
• Child care provider’s should have the healthy food to replace the unhealthy snacks brought from home.
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Promoting Healthy Eating through Intervention
• The most common way to achieve the benchmarks in this position paper is through interventions.
• One intervention is Hip-Hop to Health junior, that is successful in controlling weight gain, and a decrease in saturated fat intake.
• I am Moving, I am learning promotes healthy eating, enhances families involvement in fitness, and increase physical activity levels.
• Nutrition and Physical Activity Self assessment is another intervention program, and its goals are to improve practices with healthy eating to maintain a healthy weight.
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Promoting Healthy Eating through Policy and
Regulation• Child care is regulated at the state level and each
state has a different set of standards.
• Food and nutrition practitioners can provide expertise to make a change in their state.
• With the help of the CACFP, states can make the regulations more beneficial.
• Enhancing these regulations are justified.
• Researchers examined all aspects of nutrition regulations in child care.
• The study found different outcomes for each state, meaning all 50 states had a variety of regulations.
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Your Roles as a Dietician in a Child Care Environment
• Consultation in programs.
• Have a strong knowledge of up to date guidelines.
• Encourage families to be more involved in child care programs.
• Get involved in interesting research.
• Develop a high quality policy for nutrition.