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Childhood is a critical time to prioritize balanced nutrition due to its essential role in supporting healthy growth and development. However, nutrient deficiencies are alarmingly common during this life stage - the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans highlights the low diet quality scores of American children and adolescents, many of whom are not getting enough high-quality protein, iron, zinc, choline, and vitamins B6 and B12. Incorporating beef as a flavorful component of plant-forward school meals can help close these nutrient gaps, help model healthy eating patterns, and help to nourish American school children - supporting their growth, development, and overall good health. Ultimately, with this strong foundation, American school children and adolescents will be more enabled to reach their full potential.
School nutrition professionals are faced with everyday challenges to providing affordable and versatile healthy dietary choices that the children and adolescents they serve will eat. Beef is a nutrient dense, flavorful and familiar food that can increase nutrient quality of school meals and may encourage the consumption of other healthy foods including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Learn innovative and simple opportunities for including beef on your plant-forward school menu.
Childhood is a critical time to prioritize balanced nutrition due to its essential role in supporting healthy growth and development. However, nutrient deficiencies are alarmingly common during this life stage - the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans highlights the low diet quality scores of American children and adolescents, many of whom are not getting enough high-quality protein, iron, zinc, choline, and vitamins B6 and B12. Incorporating beef as a flavorful component of plant-forward school meals can help close these nutrient gaps, help model healthy eating patterns, and help to nourish American school children - supporting their growth, development, and overall good health. Ultimately, with this strong foundation, American school children and adolescents will be more enabled to reach their full potential.
School nutrition professionals are faced with everyday challenges to providing affordable and versatile healthy dietary choices that the children and adolescents they serve will eat. Beef is a nutrient dense, flavorful and familiar food that can increase nutrient quality of school meals and may encourage the consumption of other healthy foods including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Learn innovative and simple opportunities for including beef on your plant-forward school menu.
- Examine the evolution of a leaner beef supply and the nutritional contribution of beef to healthy dietary patterns within the school age and adolescent populations.
- Address perceptions surrounding beef production and its nutritional value to providing a foundation for healthy dietary patterns.
- Discuss culinary opportunities for beef in school food service that can help strengthen the nutritional quality of school meals while also addressing various challenges faced within school food service operations.
- Nutrition-1000: General nutrition (1300)
- Operations-2000: Food Production (2100), Purchasing/Procurement (2400), Food Safety and HACCP (2600)
- Understand the functional role of macronutrients for different types of athletes based on goals, specifically related to energy and recovery.
- Articulate impact of external factors like hydration, sleep and stress on performance nutrition principles like recovery.
- Translate performance nutrition principles into clear and effective practical application for clients and athletes.
- Identify the three core dimensions of sustainable healthy diets and describe, broadly, the elements encompassed within each dimension.
- Describe food and nutrition insecurity – what it is, who it impacts, where and why it exists and how registered dietitians can play a role.
- Develop an understanding and appreciation for the concept of tradeoffs in the context of the current food environment and as they relate to sustainable, healthy diet discussion.
- Describe animal source food’s role in sustainable healthy diets including nutrient density and nutrient profile and role in sustainable, healthy diets.
- Identify critical nutrient gaps that exist during key life stages of rapid growth and development
- Examine beef's nutrient profile as an animal source food to support healthy dietary patterns from infancy/toddlerhood through adolescence
- Develop nutrition recommendations to close nutrients gaps and optimize healthy growth and development
- Describe the evidence–based markers of strength and the scientific research on their utility
- Evaluate and select appropriate strength assessments to measure health status throughout the lifespan
- Develop nutrition recommendations to optimize markers of strength, including specific foods and nutrients to include or increase in one's dietary pattern
- Examine the evidence on meat-eating as one of the first major evolutionary changes among the earliest humans
- Identify ways in which meat-eating may have provided humans with developmental advantages, including the impact of specific nutrients
- Understand the cultural significance of meat-eating and implications for nutrition counseling
- Address common concerns and challenges that accompany the aging process.
- Understand evidence-based research supporting the role of nutrition and physical activity for optimizing strength outcomes in middle-aged adults.
- Translate the research into practical application – applying physical activity and nutrition guidelines such as strength training and inclusion of high-quality protein foods in a healthy dietary pattern – to support healthy aging.
- Verbalize common concerns around the role of animal agriculture in a sustainable diet/food supply.
- Identify ways in which the beef farmer and rancher community meets the growing global protein demand while engaging in sustainable production practices.
- Communicate evidence on cattle’s carbon footprint and the environmental impact of beef production.
- Define the role of the diet, including high-quality protein, in building and repairing muscle, and nourishing a healthy brain at every life stage.
- Translate evidence-based research on the role of high-quality protein in supporting improved body composition and physical and mental strength.
- Share practical application tips with peers and clients, including physical activity tips and nutrition information on how to include high-quality protein foods in a healthy dietary pattern.