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Nutrition for Infants and Children - Bell Institute

Ask the Whole Grain Heroes Poster
Whole Grain Heroes teach families about the benefits of whole grain.
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Breakfast is Important for You
Highlight the important health benefits of breakfast with this colorful handout.
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Bridge to Breakfast Consumer Brochure
A tool to personalize breakfast education for each WIC participant by using the VENA approach. This brochure includes four delicious recipes.
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Bridge to Breakfast Facilitators' Guide
An overview of the research behind the benefits of breakfast and how to use participant-centered counseling in moving clients toward the breakfast habit.
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Bridge to Breakfast Slide Presentation (pdf)
How to use participant-centered counseling in moving clients toward the breakfast habit.
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Calcium Fact Sheet
This fact sheet lists important sources of calcium and the role of calcium in the body.
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Cheerios Growth Chart
A fun guide for a child’s growth and development.
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Colorful Snack Recipes
Fun and easy cereal recipes for parents and children.
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Discover Vitamin D Fact Sheet
Learn the findings around vitamin D, including sources, its role in bone health, and more.
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eatbetterearly.com tear pad
Educate your clients about eatbetterearly.com featuring WIC friendly recipes, easy-to-read nutrition information and basic cooking tips for kids and families.
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Empty Cereal Boxes
Need a display or packages for your WIC education classes? You can order empty cereal boxes. (WIC only requests please)
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Family Affairs: The Importance of Family Dinners
This conversation starter includes tips for serving a quick and nutritious dinner on the run and ways to make the family meal more enjoyable.
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Folic Acid For A Healthy Mom and Baby
This fact sheet lists important food sources of folic acid.
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Go For the Green: Getting Kids to Eat - And Like - Vegetables
This conversation starter includes ideas for sneaking veggies into kids’ favorite foods and ways you can encourage kids to enjoy the great tastes of vegetables.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids 3-5 Classroom Activities- Grain Tracks
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids 3-5 Classroom Activities- Spreading the Word
These educational and entertaining classroom activities are designed for younger and older students. They include games, art activities and problem-solving to help students identify whole grain foods and how they can add them to their daily diet.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids: Classroom Activities (Complete Set)
These educational and entertaining classroom activities are designed for younger and older students. They include games, art activities and problem-solving to help students identify whole grain foods and how they can add them to their daily diet.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids Complete Resource
The Go With the Whole Grain for Kids curriculum features two delightful Whole Grain Heroes to help children learn about the benefits of whole grains and how they can incorporate whole grains into their diet. The fun and engaging curriculum includes a program designed for children in grades kindergarten through second grade and a more in depth version for children in grades three through five to help you meet the learning needs of your students. Scroll down to find the curriculum which best meets your age groups needs.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Getting Strong with Grain Boy and Grain Girl
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Grains to the Mill Game
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Relay Races
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Whole Grain Heroes in Action
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids K-2 & 3-5 Classroom Activities- Grain Collage
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids K-2 & 3-5 Classroom Activities- Whole Grain Helpers
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids K-2 Classroom Activities- Grain Tracks
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids K-2 Fitness Activity - Popcorn Popping
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids Leader Guide
This guide will summarize the topic of whole grains and provide educational strategies and lesson plans to help educate your students.
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Go With the Whole Grain For Kids: Fitness Activities (Complete Set)
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids: Grades 3-5 Slide Program
This colorful slide program is a great way to introduce the topic of whole grains to your students. There is a slide program for both younger and older students which can be read by the teacher or leader. In this program, the students will be introduced to Grain Boy and Grain Girl the energetic Whole grain Heroes, who explain what whole grains are, the benefits of eating whole grains, how to identify whole grain foods, and how many servings of whole grains are recommended each day.
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Go With the Whole Grain For Kids: Grades 3-5 Slide Program Notes
Notes to accompany the Go With the Whole Grain For Kids Slide Program
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids: K-2 Slide Program
This colorful slide program is a great way to introduce the topic of whole grains to your K-2 students. There is a slide program for both younger and older students which can be read by the teacher or leader. In this program, the students will be introduced to Grain Boy and Grain Girl the energetic Whole grain Heroes, who explain what whole grains are, the benefits of eating whole grains, how to identify whole grain foods, and how many servings of whole grains are recommended each day.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids: K-2 Slide Program Notes
Notes to accompany the Go With the Whole Grain For Kids K-2 Slide Program
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Go With the Whole Grain Leader Guide
This guide summarizes the current Dietary Guidelines and USDA MyPyramid, providing educational strategies and lesson plans to help you educate your clients in a variety of counseling and education settings.
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Go With Whole Grain for Kids K-2 Classroom Activities- Grain Chain
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Great Whole Grain Recipes
Great tasting whole grain recipes for the whole family.
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Grow Up with Breakfast, Grow Up Strong
Learn why breakfast is beneficial for children's health and how parents can serve up a better breakfast.
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Help Your Child Grow Coloring Sheet
Cheerios coloring sheet.
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Iron: The Blood Builder
This fact sheet lists important sources of iron and the role of iron in the body.
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Kick & Play Coloring Sheet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities.
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Play Coloring Booklet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities. See below to download individual pages.
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Raising a Healthy Happy Eater (Slide Presentation)
Helping kids make healthy food choices can be a challenge given today’s environment. Learn how taste preferences in babies are formed and the way that plays into likes and dislikes as children age, how parent-child dynamics shape eating habits, and how kids’diets stack up against recommendations. An action plan to help parents understand the critical part they play in their kids’lives as role models and how they can help guide their child in learning to make healthy choices on their own is highlighted.
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Run & Play Coloring Sheet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities.
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Toss & Play Coloring Sheet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities.
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Using Motivational Interviewing to Implement Heart Health Recommendations (Slide Presentation)
Learn how to integrate principles of a heart healthy diet into your counseling. Guidelines issued by both the American Heart Association’s Diet and Lifestyle recommendations and the National Cholesterol Education Program ATP III Report focus on diet as a mainstay to promote good heart health. A summary of the key principles and updates to each of the guidelines is included in this presentation, along with a look at some of the specific foods recommended in the Portfolio Diet. Using motivational interviewing techniques, you’ll learn how you can improve your counseling to help clients implement positive changes in their lifestyle and heart health.
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Veggie Up Your Diet: Easy Tips to Increase Your Vegetable Intake
Help motivate your clients to increase their vegetable intake with these fun and easy tips.
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Vitamin A
This fact sheet lists important sources of vitamin A and the role of vitamin A in the body.
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Vitamin C
This fact sheet lists important sources of vitamin C and the role of vitamin C in the body.
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What Do I Feed My Baby (English)
This brochure offers a step-by-step outline on what, when, and how to feed babies through their first year of life. What Do I Feed My Baby? provides information for new parents to help them identify safe and appropriate food choices for their growing baby.
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What Do I Feed My Baby (Spanish)
This brochure offers a step-by-step outline on what, when, and how to feed babies through their first year of life. What Do I Feed My Baby? provides information for new parents to help them identify safe and appropriate food choices for their growing baby.
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Whole Grain Coloring Sheet
Children can learn about whole grain foods while coloring.
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Whole Grain Hero Coloring Sheet
Download a coloring sheet for young students learning about whole grain foods.
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Whole Grain Heroes Save Breakfast Cartoon
Fun and easy messages about whole grain and breakfast for children 2-5 years.
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Facts About Gluten Free Eating
Help your clients understand celiac disease and gluten, common foods with gluten-containing ingredients, and where to find more information.
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