By: Cari Nierenberg, Contributing writer
Published: 02/23/2015 03:09 AM EST on LiveScience
New guidelines released today by a leading U.S. pediatricians group urge a more practical, commonsense approach toward nutrition to help improve children’s diets and health, both in school and at home.
The guidelines come in a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, offering the organization’s latest thinking on foods and nutrition. The statement encourages a broader dietary pattern that is focused more on what children — and adults, too — should eat, rather than what they shouldn’t.
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Ayoob also said he liked that the paper implied schools can’t improve nutrition on their own, and that parents need to become more mindful of health when packing lunches, planning food celebrations at school and serving family meals at home.
“Improving child nutrition has to be a community project, and parents are part of this community,” Ayoob said.
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