title: Position of the American Dietetic Association: nutrition standards for child-care programs.
abstract: ADA supports achievement of comprehensive nutrition standards in child-care programs. The standards presented in this position paper focus on meeting the child's nutrition needs and providing a safe and pleasant environment that promotes acquisition of eating habits that prevent disease and enable healthy growth and development. Dietetics professionals can play a powerful role in advocating and assisting the acceptance of child-care nutrition standards by parents, caregivers, foodservice personnel, and directors and policy makers for child-care programs.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers / Q000592:standards*; D053198:Child Nutrition Sciences / Q000193:education; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004032:Diet; D004046:Dietetics; D002523:Edible Grain; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005511:Food Handling; D005638:Fruit; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007881:Legislation, Food; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014675:Vegetables