Eating Lessons and Super Foods for Infants & Young Children

About the Class

Eating Lessons and Super Foods will show you how early feeding experiences shape food preferences and eating behaviors. Discover how lemons provide anticancer fighting properties and how cabbage may help fight off viruses. Understand which foods provide children with the best opportunity for healthy growth and development. Learn family mealtime dos and don’ts that promote healthy eating and recognize the importance of introducing a variety of health enhancing foods to minimize children’s genetic risk factors and optimize their personal biochemistry. Find out how parent’s eating habits influence a child’s eating habits for life and the steps one can take to grow a healthy family.

Objectives of the session

• Identify early feeding experiences that shape food preferences and eating behavior.
• List family mealtime dos and don’ts that promote healthy eating patterns.
• Recognize developmental milestones that signal a child’s readiness for solid foods.
• Distinguish between food refusals that are normal and transitory versus those that require intervention.
• To recognize the importance of introducing a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans in a child’s diet
• To be able to list the benefits of specific phytonutrients, (plant compounds) and their role in wellness and disease prevention
• To be able to state how eating these foods can help your child grow at a healthy weight
• To understand how a parents eating habits, specifically a mother influence and shape their children’s eating habits

Keywords: nutrition, food, eating habits, diet

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