The document provides tips for promoting healthy nutrition in school-age children ages 6-12. It recommends involving children in the grocery shopping, meal preparation, and drink selection processes. This encourages healthy choices and hands-on learning. It also suggests limiting fast food and soft drinks due to health risks like obesity, and instead promoting fruits, vegetables, milk, water, and homemade fruit milkshakes as nutritious options. The overall goal is to educate children and set a good example through parental guidance and healthy role modeling.

1. Involve them in the
Process!!
School-Age
Nutrition
(Ages 6-12) Educate school age children about
healthy and non healthy foods
Reduce Fast food consumption by
telling them about the possible
dangers.
Encourage physical activities to Children like being involved and in
avoid obesity and other health control of what they are eating so the
concerns best way to get them to make healthy
Increase fruits and vegetable intake
nutritional choices is by involving
them in the process.
and make sure to have 5 servings of
fruits and vegetables Take them grocery shopping
daily. Get them to help in preparing healthy
meals and healthy drinks.
Magical tips This way they will get a hands on
experience and learn from it since
children learn by doing.
Minimize eating out options because
fast food is the most unhealthy
product marketed to
children.
Parents and educators should role
Proper Nutrition for School Age includes model healthy eating and drinking
making healthy food choices as well as
healthy drink choices which would Say “NO” to Soft Drinks
contribute with their overall
performance. As parents or educators our
main role is to:

2. Introducing Happy face
Milkshake 
One of the healthy choices in Healthy
drinks for school Age children
They cause: 2. Get an Apple, Banana, Peach and
Pinapple and wash it thoroughly
Ingredients: under water.
Dental Caries 3. Peel and cut the fruits and put
Obesity due to additional calories them in the mixer and add half cup
Low intake of Milk, meaning less of milk in it with 3-4 ice cubes
Calcium intake which is needed 4. Press the button and mix it all
crutialy for bone development during together
childhood and adolescence. 5. Happy Milkshake is ready, serve it
Overall contributes to poor nutrition in a cup and DRINK IT!! 
Healthy drink choices include: Bibliography
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Milk which contains Calcium and is
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3. Together we hold the key to a
Healthy Lifestyle for our children
Group Members:
 Muila
 Tamana
 Aisosa
 Rasheda
 Grace
ENJOY HAPPYFACE MILKSHAKE
WITH A SMILE :)