OM, NOM, NOM, This is Deeee-Licious!: An Overview of Nutrition for Kids

Abstract

Childhood nutrition is a topic that will forever be at the forefront of the minds of families, caretakers, public policy makers, and children themselves. As the cost of health food options continues to create barriers, it is important to provide and maintain credible, and easy to access pools of information to aid in combatting this issue. Trusted consumer health websites such as MyPlate.gov, EatRight for Kids, Medline Plus’s Child Nutrition, and Nutrition.gov’s Nutrition by Age, are wonderful sources of information, videos, educational materials, and links to other external sources, but Instagram accounts like Kids.Eat.In.Color and FeedingLittles, and podcasts like Mystery Recipes and Maintenance Phase should be looped into the conversation as social and other media platforms are popular sources of information today.

Keywords:

• Childhood nutrition
• food for kids
• healthy eating

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Kat Phillips

Kat Phillips, MLIS, is the Nursing & Allied Health Librarian at Penn State University. Her research focuses on using the IF I APPLY method for source selection and assessment, grey literature use within nursing publications, and the embedded librarian relationship impact on distance students' information literacy skills.