Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Guidelines for Early Childhood

The Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging has released  Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Guidelines for children attending childcare centres, family day care and preschools. The Guidelines are part of the federal governments initiative to tackle childhood overweight and obesity by ensuring young children have a healthy start to life. There are 10 Healthy Eating Guidelines which contain information on healthy foods to serve, mealtime settings and times, portion control, and food safety and  5 Physical Activity Recommendations for ages 0-5 years.

The Guidelines resource, called Get Up and Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood includes a directors book, staff/carer book, cookbook for children, family book, posters, brochures, stickers and CD rom. They can be accessed at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/phd-early-childhood-nutrition-resources