Nutrition improvements needed in family-home child care

Family-home child-care providers may need more culturally and linguistically appropriate nutrition training.

June 4, 2015 · by  · in Nutritional News · Tags: ,

Day-care children learn to respond to hunger cues when allowed to pass bowls family-style

When children and child-care providers sit around a table together at mealtime, passing bowls and serving themselves, children learn to recognize when they are full better than they do when food is pre-plated for them, reports a new University of Illinois study of feeding practices of two- to five-year-old children in 118 child-care centers.