Jul 22, 2010
Two early childhood healthy eating education programs offered by UC Cooperative Extension in Placer and Nevada counties are featured in a San Francisco Examiner blog post about the 25 healthiest foods.
Written by Anne Hart, who bills herself as the "Sacramento Nutrition Examiner," the story detailed "Growing Healthy Food, Minds & Bodies," a UCCE hands-on preschool nutrition program.
The program helps young children make the connection between growing and eating healthy food by, for example, studying grasses we eat and then sprouting them. The children learn about edible seeds and how to plant and grow them.
The second nutrition program featured in the post is "Let's Eat Healthy," which is available for qualifying Placer and Nevada county schools, preschools and other youth organizations and groups. (Schools with at least 50 percent of the students receiving free or reduced-price lunch qualify for this program.) Let's Eat Healthy offers teachers a variety of curricula choices:
Written by Anne Hart, who bills herself as the "Sacramento Nutrition Examiner," the story detailed "Growing Healthy Food, Minds & Bodies," a UCCE hands-on preschool nutrition program.
The program helps young children make the connection between growing and eating healthy food by, for example, studying grasses we eat and then sprouting them. The children learn about edible seeds and how to plant and grow them.
The second nutrition program featured in the post is "Let's Eat Healthy," which is available for qualifying Placer and Nevada county schools, preschools and other youth organizations and groups. (Schools with at least 50 percent of the students receiving free or reduced-price lunch qualify for this program.) Let's Eat Healthy offers teachers a variety of curricula choices:
- Go Glow Grow-Preschool
- Happy Healthy Me...Moving, Munching & Reading Through MyPyramid for 4 to 6 Year Olds
- Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork . . . Promoting School Wellness, Kindergarten Curriculum
- Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork . . . Promoting School Wellness, First Grade Curriculum
- Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork . . . Promoting School Wellness, Second Grade Curriculum
- Reading Across MyPyramid-Elementary School
- Nutrition To Grow On-Upper Elementary
- Eatfit-Middle School
- Jump Start-High School
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