Making Nutrition Fun for Lifelong Healthy Habits

During March of each year, National Nutrition Month is celebrated. Along with encouraging informed, healthy food decisions, nutrition professionals can also use this awareness month to suggest ways to incorporate physical activity habits into an attainable, daily lifestyle routine. There …

Healthy Hydration Habits for Kids

boy drinking cup of water

Water. It’s the single largest component of the human body and vital for life. Water helps the body perform important functions such as regulating temperature, protecting cells, and carrying nutrients and waste. We lose water/fluid in three ways: breathing, perspiring …

Healthy Fundraising

fundraising jarPromoting healthy behaviors outside of the classroom is a natural way to encourage hands-on learning; why then, do we use candy and other sweets to raise money at many school fundraisers? Common fundraisers, such as bake sales, may increase calorie …