Welcome to Healthy School Nutrition Resources!

Looking for the latest information on nutrition and physical activity in schools?  Need some creative graphics to make a point in your slides about child nutrition and health problems?  Want some consumer-friendly handouts for your next presentation about the connection between a healthy school environment and student success?

You have come to the right place for the right resources...to help you improve nutrition and physcial activity options for children in your schools.  The following links put a wide variety of science-based resources, created by leaders in child nutrition and health, at your finger tips, including:

School Wellness Tool Kit
Download this comprehensive tool kit providing everything you need to get involved in school wellness policies in your local district.

• How-To Manual
• Resources and links to agencies and groups
• Reprint articles from the School Foodservice and Nutrition Journal
  • A Healthy Start (preschool), June/July 2003
  • Healthy Kids are Happy Kids (school-age), June/July 2005
  • Nutrition for Tweens, June/July 2002
  • That’s a Mouthful (teens), June/July 2004
• Reproducible Handouts
  • Average Consumption from each Food Group Compared to MyPyramid Recommendations
  • Percent of Boys and Girls NOT Meeting Recommended Amounts of Important Nutrients / Top Food Sources and Percentage Contributed to the American Diet
  • Ten Fun Ways to Make School Days Active Days
  • Ten Sites About Fun Physical Activity for Kids
• MyPyramid Poster
  • Front (PDF Format)
  • Back - 8 blackline masters (PDF Format)
• MyPyramid for Kids Poster
  • Front (PDF format)
  • Back - 8 blackline masters (PDF format)

NEW resources developed by Dayle Hayes, MS, RD

The Tween Scene – Nutrition Tips to Offer Tweens (PDF, 2 pp.)

El Caso De Los Preadolescentes (Spanish The Tween Scene, PDF, 2 pp.)

Childhood Nutrition – Tips for Feeding Children Ages 0-5 (PDF, 2 pp.)

Why Beef is Important in the Diets of Growing Girls and Boys – highlights the
    nutrients missing in the diets of growing children (PDF, 1 p.)

Girls Nutrient Needs and Common Food Sources – lists common food sources
    for nutrients important to growing girls (PDF, 1 p.)

Percentages of Children NOT Consuming the Recommended Number 
    of Daily Servings from the Food Guide Pyramid (PDF, 1p.)

Foods to Grow On – Iron and Zinc (PDF, 1 p.)

Educational materials for students

Adolescent Vegetarianism – provides information to better understand
    the issues that should be considered by adolescents choosing a
    vegetarian diet (PDF, 4 pp.)

New from USDA - My Pyramid

 MyPyramid for Kids Poster

 Front (PDF format)

 Back - 8 blackline masters (PDF format)