U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Newsletters Promote Healthy Eating Habits for Children

Children’s Health Month doesn’t begin until October, but any time is a good time to start thinking about healthier eating habits for young people.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Nibbles for Health: Nutrition Newsletters for Parents of Young Children has a wealth of material on how to promote healthy eating habits for children. The newsletters are intended to be shared by child care food program providers for discussion on popular nutrition topics.

Some of the topics in the newsletters include:

• Developing Healthy Habits with Less Sugar

• Developing a Taste for Less Sodium

• Encouraging Vegetables

• Growing Strong with Milk

• Tips for a “Choosy” Eater

Most of the newsletters are broken down into sections that combine facts with tips and activities. For example, the Encouraging Vegetables newsletter includes information on how vegetables can help children to get important nutrients, provide dietary fiber, and reduce the risk of certain diseases. 

The newsletter then provides ways to encourage children to eat vegetables - such as eating and preparing food together, choosing different colors of vegetables, and shopping together for vegetables. The newsletter culminates in an activity for children and caregivers that involves coloring in vegetables that the child has sampled.

Each of the newsletters are available for download in the Nibbles for Health archive.