Healthy eating in the early years

Early feeding: setting the stage for healthy eating habits.

Food habits, an integral part of all cultures, have their beginnings during early life. This chapter reviews the development of the senses of taste and smell, which provide information on the flavor of foods, and discusses how children's innate predispositions interact with early-life feeding experiences to form dietary preferences and habits. Young children show heightened preferences for food...

The Healthy Eating Index

Healthy eating in early years settings: a review of current national to local guidance for North West England.

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which national and local UK guidelines for the early years sector address key recommendations for encouraging healthy eating based on best available evidence. DESIGN Phase 1 comprised a literature review to identify new evidence to assess current relevance of the Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) 'Eating well for under-5 s in child care' guidelines. Phase 2 asse...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating

The Healthy Eating Index 2005 among 13-17 Year-Old Students in Iran

Background: Quality of diet is one of the most important factors in maintaining and improving the children's health; whereas, the quality of children's diet has not been studied in Isfahan City of Iran. This study was conducted to assess the adequacy of diet using healthy eating index (HEI)-2005 among 13-17 year-old students in Isfahan during 2014. Methods: The empirical data on dietary intakes...