Explain How To Promote A Healthy Lifestyle For Children

Both the NAEYC and NACCP standards promote early childhood education and care programs health and safety guidelines for children, their families, and staff members. However, the NAEYC Accreditation for Health Standard also includes guidelines for children’s nutrition. The NAEYC and NACCP standards help directors create early childhood programs that aim to bring “do no harm” to all stakeholders. Both standards describe guidelines that promote and protect children from health hazards and infectious diseases. One major

* Ensuring the environment is clean – Although the nursery has daily cleaners who clean the nursery at the end of play and who twice a week carry out a deep clean, it is the collected responsibility of all staff to ensure the environment is kept clean throughout the day. This means cleaning up any mess or spillages using the appropriate cleaning tools and products. The practitioners, along with the help from the children, are also required to tidy away the toys and playing equipment, and wipe down tables before each meal time so the area is clear for the arrival of plates, cutlery and food and drinks. This is to ensure a healthy and safe environment when eating.

Preview of Main Points: I will begin by informing you how and where Childhood Obesity starts, then, I will move on to the immediate and long-term effects obesity has on children. Lastly, I will discuss ways to reduce obesity and how to prevent it.

Some children also get their tea at the nursery if they are not getting picked up till later, for their tea they normally just have a little snack like beans and toast. The professionals in the setting have to keep a sheet for each child with information on to give to their parents at time of pick up, it has information on like what they had for breakfast, dinner, tea, nappies changes, any accidents ect. They also have files for each child and keep information and pictures of different activities they do while they are at the nursery. The practitioners have to follow an instruction sheet every time they write in the file.

Policies have a big importance in the setting and as practitioners we are required to adhere to these as they meet the needs of children and families. Healthy eating policy ensures children are getting all the nutrition their body needs; by having a nutritionally balanced menu children will be encouraged to try new things, this will ensure they are eating healthy at nursery if not at home as they have their five a day fruit and vegetables and plenty of water and milk. (Lewis, 2013)

My responsibilities as a trainee nursery practioner include: providing physical and emotion support and care for the

* Babies and young children are vulnerable and very dependent on their parents and carers. Therefore as well as provide and children’s learning and development it is also essential that we support the physical care, keep them safe and meet their nutritional needs.

It is very important to recognise that parents and practitioners have different kinds of relationships with the children in their care. Practitioners need to develop consistent, warm and affectionate relationships with children especially babies but they should not seek to replace the parents. Babies need to be with the same people each and every day to develop social relationships. This is why the EYFS requires all early years settings and schools to implement a key person system. Parents and practitioners have one thing in common that is very important: they all want the best for the child. The roles involved are not the same yet they are complementary. Parents know their own child best. Practitioners have knowledge of general child development.

1.1 Explain why physical activity is important to the short and long term health and well being of children.

Information should be shared on a day to day basis between the practioner and the parent/ career abpout everything that happens in the nursery.

Tommy Anderson, a pudgy young boy, casually walked home from school. As he rounded a corner, a large billboard with four obese children staring down at him caught his attention. The words “Fat kids become fat adults” written in bold text near the bottom gripped him tightly. Tommy glanced down at his own, bulging stomach; shame oozed its way into his body. He looked back up at the ad, and met the stare of the children displayed on the billboard. The shame flooded out, quickly replaced by a sense of defiant determination. Tommy decided he did not want to be a fat kid any longer. This moment, though he did not know it at the time, would change his entire life. That night, Tommy went home, talked with his parents, and started a diet and

Upon reviewing the community vitality data I came to the conclusion that the health problem that a health education program would be most appropriate to address would be childhood nutritional health and fitness. I came to this conclusion after careful data analysis. Of the county’s adults (18+) 77% ate less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, this percentage is so high likely because of attitudes and habits these adults picked up when they were children. The second largest age demographic in the county is children aged 10 to 17 are overweight, six percent more than the state average, 88% of children age 10 to 17 are not meeting daily targets for fruit and vegetable consumption and 30% age 10 to 17 watch 3 or

Throughout time people have grown larger and larger, so what can we do to prevent this? In Arizona, obesity rates have risen since 1990 by 28.9% and Arizona was last tested to be placing 29 out of 51 states that have the biggest people. Among all these people, data show that adults have been climbing more than the elders and teenagers in today's society. It is also shown that children are becoming more obese than other kids in the nation, they ranked top 10 for ages 10-17. This affects many individuals like children specifically. How will children know how to take care of their unhealthy habits if they haven't ever trained themselves to manage their body well when they were younger? For example, an act of physical activity can encourage the

Lifestyle/behavioural approach to health promotion is dependent on the result of healthy/unhealthy lifestyle choices. Lifestyle/behavioural are concerned with individuals and groups whose social situation, lifestyle/behaviours that put them at a higher risk of adopting unhealthy lifestyle choices. A Lifestyle approach to health aims to prevent risk behaviours contributing to the specific groups or individual ill health, yearning that the future result is that these groups of individuals will improve their health when given the information and education they need to be aid them to adopt to the healthy lifestyle and make better choices. Quit smoking campaigns are a great example of lifestyle/behavioural

Could one’s car run on water instead of gas? The obvious answer to this question is no and that one’s car requires gasoline in order to work properly. What about when it comes to the human body, what does it need to function properly? Of course the way a person eats is important, but there are a few important factors that contribute to one’s health. The components that make up a healthy lifestyle include physical, emotional, and spiritual factors. College students tend to have a harder time with achieving these factors due to economic status, stress levels, and common dietary patterns. Because I have grown up in a medical family, I have always been fascinated with health and the human body. I also have an autoimmune disease that I was diagnosed with a couple of years ago and that has led me to research health and nutrition for hours on end.