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Understand healthy balanced diets and hydration

This video ‘Eat better, do better: kids’ was produced by Teachers TV. It looks at how young children across the country are already taking up the challenge to eat better and do better.

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Reading Materials

'Eatwell Guide: How to eat a healthy balanced diet’ from NHS Inform
'Hydration for children’ from the British Nutrition Foundation
'Promoting and supporting healthy eating in early years settings: A guide for early years settings in England’ from Action for Children
Laser reading text: Nutrition in the early years

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Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

This section of the Infant and Toddler Forum offers resources on ‘Healthy eating for toddlers’.
Click to read section 3 ‘The food and drink guidelines’ from the ‘Eat better, start better: Voluntary food and drink guidelines for Early Years settings in England’ from Action for Children.
‘5532 a-day: Perfect portions for toddler tums’ produced by the British Nutrition Foundation provides information about toddler dietary requirements.
Teach Early Years has a useful article on ‘How to help your under-fives stay hydrated’.
This article from the Australian Healthy Kids Association is about ‘Children and hydration’
‘A healthy balanced diet’ from the British Nutrition Foundation.

Extended Learning
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