Food Insecurity
Children lacking this mineral in their diet are at a disadvantage academically. This deficiency in infancy may cause permanent loss of IQ later in life.
What is Iron?
What is CACFP or Child and Adult Care Food Program?
After age two this is the type of milk that children should be served.
What is 1% or skim milk.
This is the name of the standards that all child care providers should follow when cleaning up bodily fluids.
What is Universal Precautions?
This is the federal program run by the Health Dept. that offers nutritional support to women with young children.
What is WIC?
This is the single most common chronic disease among American children.
What is tooth-decay?
According to the USDA the CACFP must serve items from the these five food groups to meet requirements.
What are grains, proteins, dairy, fruits and vegetables?
This is the phrase used to remind people to eat a variety of different colored fruits and vegetables daily.
What is "eat the rainbow?"
Prior to this age, babies should only be sleeping on their backs.
What is one year?
This is the life saving training required of all child care providers in VT within 3 months of the start date.
What is 1st Aid and CPR?
In the USA this percentage of children and adolescents meet the USDA Food Guide pyramid recommendations annually
What is 2%?
This is the style of eating that the CACFP recommends child care providers offer the children in their care.
What is Family Style?
This is one of the two types of fats that are recommended for people to include in their diet.
What are monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats?
This is the training that all VT child care providers need to complete in order to give children medicine at child care.
What is Medication Administration training?
To promote healthy development this is how long a child should spend outside every day.
What is 3 hours?
Low birth weight babies from food insecure families in early childhood, are this many times likely than their peers to be obese by 4.5 years old.
What is 28 times more likely?
This type of cooking is strictly prohibited by the the CACFP.
What is deep frying?
Children ages two-three should have this many servings of fruits and vegetables each day.
What is 4?
This is the number one reason why accidents happen at child care.
What is lack of supervision?
These milk alternative drinks should not be given to children under 5 because it contains arsenic.
What are rice milk drinks?
In the USA this percentage of young people do not meet any of the Food Group recommendations.
What is 16%?
This this the name of the program that the USDA created to help child care providers know how much of each food group should be on a child's plate.
What is MyPlate?
This is the number of servings of milk or dairy- alternative that children 2-8 should have daily.
What is 2?
Sunscreen is not used on children this age and younger.
What is 6 months?
Honey can only be offered to children older that this age.
What is one year?