{"id":242,"date":"2017-10-20T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2020-10-04T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:15:07","slug":"nutrition-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/nutrition-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<h1>\n\t\t\tNutrition Education\n\t\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>Chefs for Kids provides nutrition education through financial support to the University of Nevada, Reno&#8217;s Extension Produce Pick of the Month\u00a0program. A portion of Chefs for Kids funding helps place educators into at-risk schools teaching children monthly how to make healthy eating choices.<\/p>\n<p>Produce Pick of the Month extends far beyond the school as the children take this knowledge home and share it with their parents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact facts include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>39% of students reported increasing their fruit consumption<\/li>\n<li>46% of students reported increasing vegetable consumption<\/li>\n<li>76% of parents stated that their children were more willing to try new fruits and vegetables than they were previously<\/li>\n<li>Fliers persuaded parents to purchase more fruits and vegetables than they normally did<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Produce Pick of the Month\u00a0program\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unce.unr.edu\/programs\/health\/index.asp?ID=16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Parent comments on the nutrition education program were quite positive.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chef-hat.png\" alt=\"Chef Hat\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;My son came home and asked me to buy eggplant! Great program for the kids. Thank you!&#8221;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chef-hat.png\" alt=\"Chef Hat\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;It was so good to try new things.&#8221;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chef-hat.png\" alt=\"Chef Hat\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;You teach her and she works hard on me and she works hard on me and my calories.&#8221;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chef-hat.png\" alt=\"Chef Hat\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;This really helped my picky eater try new foods. Thank you!&#8221;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chef-hat.png\" alt=\"Chef Hat\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;My son loves the nutrition class! We work on being more aware of nutrition facts and how many fruits and vegetables we eat. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- \/.pp-testimonials -->\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition Education Chefs for Kids provides nutrition education through financial support to the University of Nevada, Reno&#8217;s Extension Produce Pick of the Month\u00a0program. A portion of Chefs for Kids funding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefsforkids.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}