Rebooting ’Kids Food’: An Opportunity for Nutrition Educators

When we hear the phrase 'kids food' most of us think of the ubiquitous items on children's menu. Such highly processed items like chicken nuggets and fries or starchy items like pizza and mac 'n cheese inevitably come to mind. SNEB's new position statement offers nutrition educators an opportunity to: 1) consider how the social norm of 'kids food' came into our culture and stuck; and 2) bring 'cancel culture' to the critical arena of a societal myth about what children will and should eat. Join this lively webinar discussion and learn how you can help shift the kids' food archetype to to a new norm for parents, educators and society at large. 

 

Education Benefits

SNEB Nutrition Educator Competencies

5.5 Describe ways to collaborate with community members and other professionals to create communities and settings in which healthy food options are easy, affordable, and desired and unhealthy foods are less prominent and less desired.

6.4 Describe ways to collaborate with other stakeholders to promote policies supporting systems that produce healthy food.

7.1 Describe the biological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and economic determinants of eating behavior, and the associated opportunities and barriers to achieving optimal health and quality of life.

 

CDR Performance Indicators

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CDR Learning Need Codes

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4150

8018