Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist About This Resource
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Michigan Team Nutrition Family and Consumer Sciences Michigan State University Extension E-2835 This booklist is a component of Pyramids Between the Pages, a program that links literacy with nutrition and physical activity education. For more information on this program, and other program components go to www.tn.fcs.msue.msu.edu. CREDITS The books on this booklist were reviewed by Chris Flood, M.S., Michigan State University Extension Program Leader, and Melinda Graham, M.B.A., Reading is Fundamental Coordinator, South Haven, Michigan. Annotated by Melinda Graham Introduction written by Chris Flood This project has been funded by a donation from the United Dairy Industry of Michigan, and with federal funds from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service to Michigan State University Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences programs – the Michigan Nutrition Network and Team Nutrition. Copyright ã 2002 by Michigan State University Board of Trustees. Bulletin E-2835, 10/02. Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 Search by Theme........................................................................................................... 12 ABC’s ................................................................................................................... 12 African-American Food & Family .......................................................................... 12 Body Parts ............................................................................................................ 12 Books with Recipes .............................................................................................. 13 Bread.................................................................................................................... 14 Breakfast .............................................................................................................. 15 Cooking ................................................................................................................ 15 Counting and Math ............................................................................................... 16 Dairy ..................................................................................................................... 17 Eating Out ............................................................................................................ 18 Fall Harvest .......................................................................................................... 18 Farm to Table ....................................................................................................... 18 Food Allergies....................................................................................................... 19 Food Art................................................................................................................ 19 Food Guide Pyramid............................................................................................. 20 Food Poetry .......................................................................................................... 20 Fruits .................................................................................................................... 21 Fun with Food ....................................................................................................... 23 Gardening ............................................................................................................ 23 Grains .................................................................................................................. 24 Growing Fruit ........................................................................................................ 26 Honey ................................................................................................................... 26 Intergenerational .................................................................................................. 27 Making Soup ........................................................................................................ 27 Michigan (MI) Agriculture ...................................................................................... 28 Olympics .............................................................................................................. 29 Other Cultures’ Food & Customs .......................................................................... 29 Outside Activities .................................................................................................. 31 Pasta .................................................................................................................... 31 Physical Activity .................................................................................................... 32 Pizza .................................................................................................................... 32 Potluck ................................................................................................................. 33 Read and Move .................................................................................................... 33 Sandwiches .......................................................................................................... 33 Seasons and Weather .......................................................................................... 34 Shopping .............................................................................................................. 34 Spanish Translation .............................................................................................. 34 Taste Something New .......................................................................................... 35 Vegetables............................................................................................................ 35 Search by Title ................................................................................................................ 38 Appendix ........................................................................................................................94 Introduction Welcome to the Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist About this Resource The Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist contains the annotations for over 300 books about food, healthy eating, and physical activity for children in pre-school through third grade. If you’re reading this introduction, chances are you’re probably interested in nutrition, physical activity, reading or a combination of all three. That’s great. Teaching children to read, teaching children how to choose and eat healthy foods, and teaching children to have fun being physically active are very important jobs. Thanks for your commitment! Nutrition educators can use the books on the Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist to… · Introduce children to the Food Guide Pyramid and the Physical Activity Pyramid; · Create enthusiasm for learning about and tasting new foods; · Teach children about the food, food customs, and physical activity habits of others around the world; · Motivate children to be physically active and to enjoy physical activity; · Integrate nutrition and physical activity education into core subjects including reading/lan- guage arts, social studies, math, and science. Who is the Booklist for? This booklist is for teachers, Extension staff members, dietitians, nutritionists, health educators, Comprehensive School Health Education Coordinators, school nurses, librarians, parents, school foodservice staff members or anyone interested in reading, learning about healthy foods, and growing up healthy. Read On! Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist Page 1 Introduction Children’s Eating and Physical Activity Habits are Not What They Should Be… Did you know…? On any given day, less than 15% of school children eat the recommended servings of fruits; less than 20% eat the recommended servings of vegetables; less than 25% eat the recommended servings of grains, and only 30% consume the recommended milk group servings. (1) Of young people ages 6-17, 64% eat too much total fat, and 68% eat too much saturated fat. (1) Teenagers today drink twice as much carbonated soda as milk and only 19% of girls ages 9-19 meet the recommended intake for calcium. (1) The percentage of children and adolescents who are overweight has more than doubled in the past 30 years; most of the increase has occurred since the late 1970s. (1) Over one-half of the children at the highest weight percentiles will persist in being heavy into young adulthood. (2) The percentage of students who attended a daily physical education class dropped from 42% in 1991 to 27% in 1997. (1) Between 1977 and 1995, the number of walking and bicycling trips made by children ages 5-15 dropped by 40%. (3) Children ages 2-18 spend an average of four hours a day watching television or videotapes, playing video games, or using a computer. (4) References: 1. Food and Nutrition Service. (2000). Changing the Scene – Improving the School Nutrition Environment. Alexandria, VA; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. For original sources referenced by Changing the Scene,gotowww.fns.usda.gov/tn to order a copy of this publication. 2. Whitaker, R.C., Wright, J.A., Pepe, M.S., Seidel, K.K., & Dietz, W.H. (1997). Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity. New England Journal of Medicine, 337, 869-873. 3. Federal