Kid's Health and Nutrition Educator and Provider Resources
Welcome Health & Nutrition Providers and Professionals Educators
We are all aware of the importance of nutrition education especially in light of the growing problem of childhood obesity and its impact to the healthcare system.
Nourish Interactive’s goal is to teach children and parents, in a fun way, about the importance of nutrition and exercise. We have created this website and game to help you in your efforts to educate families on healthier choices.
Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure Game is an online, cost effective, educational game designed for elementary school children. This game can be utilized as a supplement to your current nutrition education program or can be used as a stand-alone teaching module.
Our game is available in English and in Spanish.
Our first game introduces the food pyramid and focuses on two key messages that are consistently reinforced throughout the game:
- The importance of a balanced diet (Your body needs something from all the food groups)
- The relationship between being healthy and good nutrition.
The Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure Game:
- is designed for children in kindergarten to fifth grade
- is based on the USDA's latest food guidelines
- summarizes the health benefits of each food group
- teaches children about the importance of exercise and a balanced meal.
- encourages children to be physically active for at least 60 minutes everyday
- provides audio for children who are learning to read
- is available in English and Spanish
- is the first in a series of games dealing with various nutritional concepts
Try our nutrition games! It's fun and free!
Parents Involvement
We know parents need to be involved if we are truly going to be successful. We get parents involved in two ways, through the game and the website.
The Game:
- As children play and complete each level, parents will receive a progress report that provides them with the key nutritional concepts introduced in that level.
- Parents will also receive fun activity suggestions that they can do as a family to help reinforce what they have learned.
- We offer these progress reports in English and Spanish
The Website:
We believe in treating the parents and the child as one unit. We are committed to creating tools that are interactive and designed to help make healthier choices. Please feel free to use these tools as part of your interventions and educational strategies. We have BMI tools, dictionary, meal planners and food label tutorials. We will be adding more soon, so please keep checking back.
- Our web pages offer action oriented, decision making tools and articles.
- We offer a monthly newsletter that provides parents with real practical tools and suggestions to make healthy choices for their family.
- You will find that we create two versions of every tool: one for the parents and one for the child!
- We communicate a new theme message to both the children and the parents every month.
For more detailed information about the game, click on More About The Game.
To view inside the game click on Tour the Game.
To play a demo version of the game, Click here.
FREE account for larger groups of children:
We offer a special way for healthcare, schools and non profit organizations to manage large number of logins for their customers.
You can create your FREE account for larger groups of children by registering as an organization. As an organization account, you will be able to segment your children into groups, if desired. For example, a school may want to organize their children by classes. Any teacher can log in (only one login and password is needed for the organization) and then select her “group” and see the progress of her specific class. We also have aggregate reports to view the progress of the entire organization.
Please note, when registering as an organization, you do not need a parent account. This is completely optional. For example, a healthcare organization that is working with a parent and child may want to create a parent account that is associated with a specific child. This will allow the parent to have their login and access their child’s progress reports.
Sign up now for full access.
Childhood Obesity Epidemic
The obesity epidemic is spreading much faster than previous data suggested. By the end of the decade the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity data indicates:
- 38% of children in the European Union will be overweight
- 50% of children in the North and South America will be overweight
Obesity-associated annual hospital costs for children and youth more than tripled over two decades, rising from $35 million in 1979-1981 to $127 million in 1997-1999. But the cost of childhood obesity is more than the economic impact to our society.
Over the next few decades, life expectancy for the average American could decline by as much as 5 years unless aggressive efforts are made to slow rising rates of obesity, according to a team of scientists supported in part by the National Institutes of Health.
The importance of nutrition and exercise needs to be emphasized at a young age. Our program is designed to teach children in a fun interactive way while involving the parents.
Contact us now to learn how your organization can offer this program to your members.
Here is what the American Dietetic Association says about nutrition education:
It is the position of The American Dietetic Association that nutrition education is essential for the public to achieve and maintain optimal nutritional health. Nutrition education should be an integral component of all health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance programs, through incorporation into all appropriate nutrition communication, promotion, and education systems.
