[FULL RECORDING] Nudging Children Toward Healthy Eating Habits with Language

Caregivers play a big role in shaping children’s eating behaviors, including through the choice of language about food and the variety of food offered during food experiences.
This webinar will help caregivers, and the nutrition professionals who work with them, identify constructs of positive and negative food exposures and provide a better understanding of how to use positive, inclusive language and offerings as powerful tools during conversations about food with children.
Using certain phrases when describing flavors or amid food exposures can directly impact children’s eating behavior. Moreover, serving a variety of foods, including foods that meet cultural preferences and budgetary needs, could help or hinder how a child develops healthy eating habits.
Empowering children to explore new foods without feeling shame or stigma and expand their vocabulary to communicate better around the table about their likes and dislikes, could make new food experiences more successful.
Three learning objectives will be met through this session.
1) Describe three phrases that help children develop healthy eating habits.
2) Identify two opportunities to work with caregivers to encourage conversations on new foods with children around the table.
3) Understand how to incorporate a target population's affordability and cultural food preferences when translating the latest science on nutrition using helpful phrases.
Speakers include:
Geb Bastian, PhD, RDN, LN
SNEB Food and Nutrition Extension Education Division Chair, South Dakota State University
Kristen Hicks-Roof PhD, RDN, LDN, CLC, FAND
Director, Nutrition Research, National Pork Board
Isabel Ramos-Lebron, MS, RDN, LDN
Nutrition Education Specialist, National CACFP Sponsors Association
Emily Krause (Parent), MFCS, RD, LD, FAND
Director, Nutrition, Health and Wellness Initiatives, National Pork Board
The webinar is approved for 1 CPEU from the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This is an ethics-related CPE activity. Visit www.porkcheckoff.org/news for more.