Fisher leads panel issuing national recommendations for children’s healthy eating
Providing young children with repeated opportunities to try healthy foods, structured meal and snack environments, and the freedom to make their own food choices are key to helping them develop lifelong healthy eating habits, according to new national recommendations from a panel co-chaired by Jennifer Orlet Fisher of the College of Public Health, convened by Healthy Eating Research.
The new recommendations for children ages 2 to 8 supplement the existing U.S. Dietary Guidelines.
“The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent the state-of-the-art understanding of wha...