How do I teach preschoolers about nutrition?
Lifelong healthy eating habits are shaped largely by an early exposure to sound nutrition education. The consequences of a lifetime of poor dietary choices can run the gamut from diabetes to high blood pressure to heart disease. Getting preschoolers involved in simple gardening and food preparation activities may create a lasting and profound positive effect on their health.Introduction to GardeningGardening is a way to combine multiple facets of nutrition education, teaching young children where food comes from, which foods are healthy and why, and how to prepare produce for eating. Getting preschoolers outside to help in the garden is also a great excuse to engage them in physical activity. Get preschoolers involved at the outset by giving them seeds to plant in a prepared garden area. As they water the plants and weed around them, a general concept of plant germination will begin to come into focus, even if the children in question are too young to understand advanced botanical conc
