March is National Nutrition Month. Go to the EAT RIGHT website from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for lots of ideas for making informed food choices.
The website contains promotional resources such as a toolkit, handouts, and tips using in promoting National Nutrition Month. These are useful in library and school-wide displays focusing on nutrition.
The Good Nutrition Reading List contains a section on books as well as suggested websites.
The Interactive Games, Quiz, and Videos section includes sudoku, word searches, a “Rate the Plate” game, and Fad Diet Timeline. These games are a fun way to attract attention to healthy habits.
The website also links to the ChooseMyPlate website from the US government at http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. This resource contains many more tools and resources.
Go to the National Nutrition Month website at http://www.nationalnutritionmonth.org.
Go to the Eat Right website at http://www.eatright.org/.
For ideas about healthy eating for kids, go to http://www.eatright.org/resources/for-kids.
