Summary
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Subject index
The media interest surrounding children, food, and nutrition continues to influence policy and practice in early childhood settings, and food and eating is of fundamental importance to early childhood practice. This book gives students a comprehensive overview of food and eating, covering all areas of food and nutrition including: o Policy developmento Healthy eating guidelineso Promoting Healthy eating and o Multi-professional working.Each chapter includes case studies, links to useful websites and further reading and activities, the answers to which feature on the books companion websites along with links to journal articles and relevant websites.
Multidisciplinary Working
Multidisciplinary Working
This final chapter examines multidisciplinary working in relation to children, food and eating. The area is important because increasingly, professionals are being asked to work together to promote children's health – our concern here being healthy eating. The chapter considers the different roles professionals have in relation to developing healthy eating and preventing obesity, and stresses the importance of the early childhood practitioner in this area. In addition, the chapter highlights the importance of multidisciplinary perspectives in the study of food and eating as each perspective brings a different understanding of the issue.
This concluding chapter examines a key area of early childhood practice; multidisciplinary working. The focus of the chapter is in looking at the roles different professionals play in relation to ...
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