Course Sample for Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

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Family Nutrition
An Introduction to Family Nutrition

Parents,

Maybe you’re in the camp that sees America’s obesity epidemic as a crisis worth solving. Or perhaps you’re simply an advocate of lifelong learning. In either case, nutrition education is key to living longer, healthier, and happier lives, both for all of us as individuals and for our society as a whole. Recognizing the need for nutrition education is the first step in learning how to eat healthier.

But it’s so hard! But I can’t afford those more expensive healthy foods! But I don’t have time to cook! But . . . but . . . but . . .

Being healthy shouldn’t be painful! Let’s start this journey to better nutrition by realizing that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and you can’t radically transform your lifestyle and eating habits overnight, either. But as you learn more about nutrition, you’ll be making more informed choices about what you put into your body. You’ll also be modeling more positive eating behaviors for your kids and setting them on the right track to healthier eating.

This course is named Family Nutrition because the family who learns nutrition together eats healthier together! And YOU can be that family!

Learn big, but start small when it comes to making changes at home. Incremental change is more likely to stick. So as we go along in the course, if you find an opportunity here or there to implement something your family has learned, go for it! Maybe you could start serving a fruit or vegetable at every meal, or cutting back on your kids’ snacking before dinner, or buying organic strawberries instead of the pesticide-laden conventionally grown ones.

Perhaps a trip to the Farmer’s Market could get your family motivated to eat better, or meeting a weight loss goal, or any number of other things. The point is . . . Learn. And then do what works for you. The more you do, the more your kids will do, and pretty soon all those baby steps amount to real change. Let’s get started!