How You can Help in encouraging healthy eating among Young people?

Everyone in the world can help to make a difference in young child’s life by helping them to learn the correct way and adopt healthy eating habits. Here are some steps everyone can take, such as be a role model by eating a balanced diet high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, find out what schools are doing to encourage healthy eating, encourage schools to offer and encourage students to take part in School Breakfast Program, join a school health or nutrition advisory council and guide nutrition strategy and have a talk in schools to tell the students and the school administrators or school board about the importance of healthy diets among young people or kids.

As what parents or guardian can do is, provide their kids with healthy snacks for school parties and special events, try to help school staffs to arrange activities where students can test healthy foods, parents at home can suggest children a variety of healthy foods, keep healthy snacks on hand and also make mealtime an enjoyable experience, mother also can let their children involve in meal preparing and selecting their foods and parents or guardian can talk more about nutrition information to their kids during free time.

As a student, you can help school and family to plan the menus for each meal, take elective courses about health, nutrition, cooking and physical education, and encourage your peers and family to eat healthy foods and be physically active. Moreover, students also can make healthy food choices in the canteen, ask for healthy snacks and read nutrition or food labels to select low fat snacks.

On the other hand, what a teacher can help in encouraging children to eat healthy diets is to avoid using food to reward children, ask for healthy snacks during class parties, take part in nutrition training class and share some experience with other teachers. In addition, teachers also can search and use resources for nutrition education and also involve families and community organizations in nutrition education activities.

Lastly, school food service staffs and school administrators can provide meals or diets that are delicious and meet the nutrition requirements of the children, involve students and families in school menus planning, held activities with classroom and physical education for teachers and other staffs and also can request parents to lunch and provide them information about the nutrition value of the meal. Other than that, schools also must provide students sufficient time to eat in a relaxed and safe dining area, make sure that healthy foods and snacks are supplied in school during events, ban the sale of high fat, high sugar diets and snacks during mealtime and also assess school nutrition programs.