Healthy Eating's video: SNEB Webinar: Nutrition Education in the 0-5 Childcare Environment

Early childhood is a key time to establish healthy, sustainable eating patterns that can positively impact a child’s growth and development both in the short-term and later in life. Introducing nutrition education to children at ages 0–5, which is a critical period for physical and emotional health, can help create healthy habits that positively impact children’s future well-being. Nutrition education aimed at this age group must address their unique nutritional needs and challenges, including inadequate intake of important nutrients and excess consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. Consideration must also be given to larger environmental factors including the impacts of food insecurity, malnutrition, obesity, and educational achievement gaps, all of which factor into overall heath and health outcomes. Visit the Well-Nourished Brighter Futures page at HealthyEating.org/WellNourished