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How To: Encourage Your Child to Try and Taste New Healthy Food

It’s not just what we feed our kids that matters, but also how we handle feeding or eating that’s really important in establishing lifelong healthy habits for kids. Research shows […]

How To: Raise Healthy, Independent Eaters

It’s not just what we feed our kids that matters, but also how we handle feeding or eating that’s really important in establishing lifelong healthy habits for kids. Supporting children’s […]

Evidence-Based Recommendations and Best Practices for Promoting Healthy Eating Behaviors in Children 2 to 8 years

This resource is an executive summary of evidence-based best practices and recommendations for promoting healthy nutrition and feeding patterns among children 2 to 8 years of age. This executive summary […]

Comparison of Beverage Consumption Recommendations for Young Children: Key Areas of Misalignment and Opportunities for Improvement

This resource is intended for providers and advocates to easily compare and contrast the Healthy Eating Research (HER) Consensus Beverage Recommendations to other beverage guidelines for kids ages 0-5, including […]

Healthy Drinks, Healthy Kids Toolkit for Providers

This resource is a toolkit intended to support providers who work with children five and under in learning about the Healthy Eating Research (HER) Consensus Beverage Recommendations and in sharing […]

Example Scenarios of Daily Fluid Breakdowns by Age

This resource is intended for providers who are counseling parents and caregivers on healthy beverage consumption for their young children. This resource provides recommended amounts of plain drinking water and […]

Factsheet for Parents: Dairy Milk vs. Plant Milks for Toddlers & Young Kids

This resource was developed as a guide to help parents and caregivers choose the most nutritionally appropriate dairy milk alternative for their toddler or young child who cannot consume dairy […]

Decision Guide for Providers: Dairy Milk vs. Plant Milks for Toddlers & Young Kids

This resource is a decision guide intended to help providers decide what is the most nutritionally appropriate dairy milk alternative to recommend to toddlers & young kids who cannot consume […]

Healthy Eating Research – Healthy Drinks, Healthy Kids Videos Playlist

In collaboration with 1,000 Days and the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, Healthy Eating Research (HER) has developed a playlist of fifteen short (1 -2 minute) videos […]

The Melanated Mammary Atlas®

The Melanated Mammary Atlas® (MM Atlas) is a mobile-friendly web application which features a searchable directory of images of various breast/chest-related conditions on brown skin. The tool allows for viewing […]

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