Download or read book Healthy Choices Afterschool written by Georgia Hall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Afterschool written by Afterschool Alliance and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a growing number of school hours devoted to increased instructional time and physical education programs being scaled back in many schools, the afterschool hours are becoming increasingly crucial to ensuring the healthy development of the nation's youth. Additionally, with students spending the majority of their waking hours and consuming the majority of their meals out of school, afterschool and summer learning programs present a unique opportunity to promote healthful eating and living habits. Middle schoolers in particular, who are often fueled by their desire to find a place where they belong and are at risk of making decisions that negatively affect their overall health, can benefit greatly from the lessons on nutrition and the increased opportunities for physical activity that afterschool programs can provide. Middle school programs across the country offer youth a mix of academic and physical enrichment that promotes positive physical, emotional and social development. By offering sports programs, teaching children about healthy food choices, supplying mentors to steer teens and pre-teens away from drugs, smoking and alcohol, and displaying other innovative ways to promote healthy lifestyles among adolescents, afterschool programs are leading the way toward healthier lifestyles for America's middle schoolers. This brief offers examples of ways that afterschool programs can promote healthy living and better prepare a generation of middle schoolers. This brief is the third in a series of four issue briefs examining critical issues facing middle school youth and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues. (Contains 19 endnotes.) [For related reports, see "Afterschool: Providing Multiple Benefits to Middle School Students. MetLife Foundation Afterschool Alert. Issue Brief No. 42" (ED511973); "Afterschool: Middle School and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). MetLife Foundation Afterschool Alert. Issue Brief No. 44" (ED522621); and "Afterschool: Supporting Career and College Pathways for Middle School Age Youth. MetLife Foundation Afterschool Alert. Issue Brief No. 46" (ED522622).].
Download or read book Healthful School Environment written by Joint Committee on Health Problems in Education and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encouraging Healthy Choices for Healthy Children written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introducing an After school Healthy Eating Curriculum for Elementary School Children written by Gabriela Ramirez and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy eating is pivotal for the adequate growth and development of school-age children. Unhealthy eating correlates to poor health outcomes, poor academic performance, and negative psychological consequences over time. The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to implement an after-school healthy eating curriculum at an elementary school in the Ogden School District. The curriculum was designed to improve the healthy eating knowledge and behaviors at an elementary school in a low-income area. This program was guided by the USDA 2015-2020 nutritional guidelines and the social cognitive theory framework. The after-school program included teaching ten age-appropriate classes for K - 5th grade students covering topics such as using MyPlate food groups, making healthy choices, and reading nutritional labels. The program's success was evaluated using pre-quiz and post-quiz results and in-class participation. Approximately 38 students participated in the program. In the curriculum evaluation, 70% of the students reported enjoying the healthy eating classes, and 80% reported wanting to continue with more nutrition projects. The post-curriculum surveys showed that, on average, students had a 35% increase in their understanding of healthy eating behaviors and the ability to recognize healthy food groups. The project findings demonstrated a significant increase in elementary students' learning of healthy eating concepts. These types of programs have the potential to lead to healthy eating self-efficacy, promote lifelong healthy behaviors, and ultimately prevent long-term health problems.
Download or read book Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Nutrition in Afterschool Settings written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity has emerged as a public health problem of formidable proportions. But amidst the startling statistics there are stories of creative strategies communities throughout the county that are implementing to reverse childhood obesity trends by promoting healthy lifestyles for children and youth. This strategy brief outlines the important role that afterschool programs can play in efforts to prevent childhood obesity. It includes ideas for incorporating nutrition and physical activity into afterschool programming, strategies for financing these efforts, and examples of policies that can support and encourage the afterschool community's endeavors to steer children toward healthy choices.
Download or read book Keeping Healthy written by Sally Hewitt and published by QEB Publishing. This book was released on 2005-07-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches children all about keeping healthy and includes questions to encourage them to think about what they have read.
Download or read book Playing Safe Eating Right Making Healthy Choices written by Tamra Orr and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Safe, Eating Right features fictional narratives paired with firsthand advice from a licensed psychologist to help preteen and teen girls evaluate options and choose healthy ways of living. Topics include diet and exercise, sleep, drugs and alcohol, and physical danger. Throughout the book, Talk About It questions encourage discussion. Additional resources, a glossary, and an index are also included. Playing Safe, Eating Right will leave readers with the necessary information to lead healthy lives at this critical age.
Download or read book Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Out of School Time Settings written by Jean L. Wiecha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence base of the impact and effectiveness of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in the out-of-school setting is continuing to emerge. By sponsoring this special issue, the National AfterSchool Association provides a platform for the sharing of a range of research studies that can inform and shape current discussion of best policies and practices to support child and youth wellness. The body of work presented in this issue adds considerably to our knowledge of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in out-of-school programs, and highlights the substantial contribution towards childhood obesity prevention that we envision from our field. This is the 143rd volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.
Download or read book Eat Like a Dinosaur written by Paleo Parents and published by Victory Belt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't be fooled by the ever-increasing volume of processed gluten-free goodies on your grocery store shelf! In a world of mass manufactured food products, getting back to basics and cooking real food with and for your children is the most important thing you can do for your family's health and well-being. It can be overwhelming when thinking about where to begin, but with tasty kid-approved recipes, lunch boxes and projects that will steer your child toward meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts and healthy fats, Eat Like a Dinosaur will help you make this positive shift.
Download or read book Healthy Choices Choices Count written by Louisiana State University Agricultural Center and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigating Your School Cafeteria and Convenience Store written by Kyle A. Crockett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutrition can be complicated. How do you know what foods are healthy and what aren't? How much should you eat? When you're standing in the lunch line in your school cafeteria, what decisions should you make? What foods should you buy at the convenience store after school? In a store or school cafeteria, it may be hard to pick the best foods and snacks. What LOOKS the best isn't always the healthiest. You may not have a lot of choices to pick from. Learn about making the best decisions you can—both in the lunch line and the convenience store.
Download or read book When Are We Going to Teach Health written by Duncan Van Dusen and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact: Health improves learning. Yet nationwide, elementary school students spend twelve times more classroom hours studying history than health. Worse, most kids don't get enough physical activity and over 5 million underage youth vape. In When Are We Going to Teach Health?, Duncan Van Dusen, the CEO of one of the most widely used youth health education programs in the world, makes a novel, sometimes irreverent, case for prioritizing "Whole Child" health and SEL in K-12 schools. He shows why health drives academic success, what makes teaching health effective, and how to create a school environment that delivers and sustains healthy behavior. Using case studies, tips, and recommended actions, he describes proven youth empowerment and skills-based health education techniques to increase kids' physical activity and healthy food choices and to decrease youth vaping. Half of the proceeds from this book will fund health education in low-income schools.
Download or read book 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat written by Sheila Ellison and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 1079 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to HAPPY, healthy mealtimes Here it is-the cookbook parents have been waiting for, filled with carefully chosen, great tasting, good-for-you, kitchen-tested recipes that appeal to the whole family, especially the kids! Encourage healthy attitudes toward food and lifelong, wholesome eating habits with 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat! Perfect for busy parents and child-care providers "A book with all the goodies." -Daily News "As a mother and pediatrician, I have found this book to be full of healthful recipes that kids really like! A must for anyone who has the happy and sometimes perilous job of feeding children." --Joan Slackman, MD "Parents with children who hate all food (except Lucky Charms) will grasp this book to their breasts with gratitude." --Fresno Bee
Download or read book The Healthy Eating and Active Time Club Curriculum written by Economos, Christina and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a great tool for helping teachers instill good eating and physical activity habits in their students. It comes with a web resource that offers activity and food cards, worksheets, and separate activity books for grades 1 to 3. The web resource also contains another complete book, After-School HEAT Club Curriculum, that offers activities for after-school programs that reinforce the print book’s content.
Download or read book Promoting Health and Emotional Well Being in Your Classroom written by Randy M. Page and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly redesigned with easy-to-hand in worksheets and activity sheets, the Sixth Edition of Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom provides pre-service and current teachers with all the tools and up-to-date information needed for effectively promoting healthy life choices in and out of the classroom. Framed around the latest National Health Education Standards and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s six risk behaviors, this practical text facilitates instructional planning, allows for easy adaptation into various curricular frameworks, and ensures that the most essential health education content is addressed. New and Key Features: - Newly redesigned with perforated pages allow students to easily turn in assignments and activities. - Includes more than 275 interactive assessments and learning activities, many of which are new or revised. Each risk behavior chapter includes activities for advocacy, family and community involvement, and integration into core subjects including math, language arts, and social studies. - Case studies and stories open each chapter and provide an introduction to chapter material. - National Health Education Standards (NHES) are highlight throughout. - Instructor's resources include: PowerPoint Lecture Outlines, Test Bank Questions, Sample Course Syllabi, and Assignment/Activity Ideas.
Download or read book Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools written by Committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food choices and eating habits are learned from many sources. The school environment plays a significant role in teaching and modeling health behaviors. For some children, foods consumed at school can provide a major portion of their daily nutrient intake. Foods and beverages consumed at school can come from two major sources: (1) Federally funded programs that include the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), and after-school snacks and (2) competitive sources that include vending machines, "a la carte" sales in the school cafeteria, or school stores and snack bars. Foods and beverages sold at school outside of the federally reimbursable school nutrition programs are referred to as competitive foods because they compete with the traditional school lunch as a nutrition source. There are important concerns about the contribution of nutrients and total calories from competitive foods to the daily diets of school-age children and adolescents. Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools offers both reviews and recommendations about appropriate nutrition standards and guidance for the sale, content, and consumption of foods and beverages at school, with attention given to foods and beverages offered in competition with federally reimbursable meals and snacks. It is sure to be an invaluable resource to parents, federal and state government agencies, educators and schools, health care professionals, food manufacturers, industry trade groups, media, and those involved in consumer advocacy.
