Nutrition & Wellness

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This U.S. Department of Agriculture website provides information about the 5 food groups that are the building blocks for a healthy diet, along with additional resources about weight and calories, physical activity, and planning tools for all audiences, from students to professionals.
Click here to go to the My Plate website.

This website provides easy tips and information on food, health, and fitness for parents, children, men, and women.  Learn how to read a food label, watch a video on how to get kids involved in the kitchen or how to encourage your kids to be more active, and much more.
Click here to go to the Eat Right Website.

This American Academy of Pediatrics website provides information on an array of topics, including health, nutrition, fitness, immunizations, toilet training, etc., for age groups from prenatal to young adults.
Click here to go to the Healthy Children website.

This website from Nemours Children’s Health System provides information on various topics, including growth and development, infections, nutrition and fitness, diseases and conditions, pregnancy and baby, emotions and behavior, etc.
Click here to go to Nemours Children’s Health.

This USDA website provides easy access to vetted food and nutrition information from across the federal government. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers. Click here to go to the USDA website.

Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for food service, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity. Be sure to check out the free resources available for ordering and downloading.
Click here to go to USDA Team Nutrition.

This website, presented by Nemours, offers childhood obesity prevention resources and tools to assist childcare and preschool providers. Click here to go to Healthy Kids Healthy Future.

The ICN’s website provides research-based educational and training resources designed to help district school nutrition directors/supervisors, managers, and nutrition assistants/technicians meet the challenges of the day-to-day operations of successful school nutrition programs.
Click here to go to the Institute of Child Nutrition.

This website from the USDA provides information and resources for those enrolled or interested in Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). CACFP provides aid to child and adult care institutions and family or group day care homes for the provision of nutritious foods that contribute to the wellness, healthy growth, and development of young children and the health and wellness of older adults and chronically impaired disabled persons. Click here to go to the Child and Adult Care Food Program.