Expert Advice for Childhood Questions
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Leap Years BlogGet an early start on lifelong healthy eating. In the earliest years, offer a range of high-quality foods that nourish children’s growing brains and bodies.
Children look to adults for cues about what and how to eat. Along with teaching healthful food sources, children need to learn healthy approaches for mealtimes and eating, too. The eating habits and food preferences children form early on shape their health and wellbeing, relationship with food and much more over their lifetime.
Visit MyPlate.gov or their tips below to learn more about healthy eating.
Pick more whole fruits
FruitsVary your veggie selections
VegetablesMake half of daily grains, whole
GrainsMix up your protein routine
ProteinSip soy or low or fat-free milk
DairyVisit MyPlate.gov or their tips below to learn more about healthy eating.
Get the skinny on fats and oils
OilsScrap extra sugars and syrups
SugarsUnsaturate your fats
Saturated FatsSkip the extra salt
SodiumExpert Advice for Childhood Questions
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