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Training That Gets Results
Barbara J. Mayfield, MS, RD
Training nationally for effective nutrition education since 1988.
The most commonly requested training topics are listed below with a general description. Each presentation is tailored to the training needs of the audience.
- Creative Nutrition Education for Young Children
Explore and practice nutrition education strategies that are theoretically based, creative and fun, easy and practical, and developmentally appropriate for young children.
- Nutrition Education: A Fresh Approach
An updated perspective can help staff provide effective, client-centered nutrition education that overcomes barriers, helps people solve problems, and motivates lifelong behavior change.
- Feeding the Young Child
Feeding is more than nutrition. It also meets developmental, emotional, and social needs. Create a tailored session tackling the challenges of feeding at any age, from infancy to school-age. Session will focus on the feeding relationship and provide creative solutions to common problems, such as picky eating.
- Bright Futures for Babies
This session takes Susan Miller's "Bright Futures for Babies" and expands it into an interactive learning experience for nutrition educators. Based on new brain research, this session explores healthy feeding relationships, which enhance infant growth and development.
- Childhood Obesity: Weighing the Issues
Explore the issues concerning this "weighty" epidemic. Learn more about what is driving the increasing prevalence, how to assess overweight in children, how to prevent problems associated with inappropriate treatment, and discuss positive and practical strategies for prevention.
- Come to the Table: The importance of the family meal
The shared meal has been the primary setting for the formation of eating habits and food preferences from the beginning of human history. In today’s fast-paced society, families often forego this traditional setting for eating together. Eating away from the family table has negatively affected not only eating habits and food choices, but mental health, academic performance, and family wellness. Discover reasons and strategies to help families come back to the table.
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