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Impact Report
| For plan | KA 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (McKinley County Nutrition Plan of Work ) |
| Date | October 1, 2007, 3:07 pm |
| For Objective | Medium-term Show medium-term objectives |
| Impact Report | PAT (Parents as Teachers)and Day care providers learn about childhood nutrition with "Food Mania" Series. Recent statistics show that an increasing number of children are becoming obese. Genetics, parental modeling, a lack of physical activity, and poor dietary patterns are some of the reasons for the obese increase . The parental job is more difficult when snack food and fast food outlets use bright colors and toys to entice children towards poor food choices. "Food Mania" teaches parents and children creative ways of preparing fun attractive and nutritious healthy snacks. Raw vegetables and low fat dip, plain cheerios, granola, fresh fruits, and nuts mixed with dried fruit can be combined to make simple healthy snacks. The Day Care providers used their creative skills to create recipes that even a child could prepare. Twenty two people men and women attended the 4 sessions and they were excited to share what they learned with their students, families and friends. Healthy food is available to us, all we have to do is promote it, take portioned servings and reduce overeating. Evaluation feedback was very positive from the group and plans are already in progress for a follow up session with the holidays in mind. Some of the food items were donated by the Gallup Community Pantry who are also involved in "Food for Kids". |