7th Annual Healthy Choices for Children Conference

Date:  Thursday, April 4, 2013

Location:   The New York Academy of Medicine, Room 20.   1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10029

Conference Objectives:

1- Understand the proposed changes made to the Competitive Food Standards for schools.
2- Describe the link between nutrition and cognition.
3- Identify the variety of feeding styles and the role they play in optimal child nutrition.
4- Discuss the relationship between added sugars and nutrient consumption.

Agenda

8:00-8:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 am
Welcome and Introductions

8:45-9:45 am
What's for Sale? Or not…Inside the 2013 Competitive Food Standards
Mary Jo McLarney, MS, RD, LDN
Nutritionist, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

9:45-10:45 am
Fuel Your Brain to Get the Grade
Ronald Kleinman, MD Physician-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children

10:45-11:00 am
One Healthy Breakfast: NYC School Meals Coalition Roxanne Henry, MSW
Chair, NYC School Meals Coalition

11:00-11:20am
Break

11:20-12:20 pm
Applying a Positive Feeding Style for Optimal Child Nutrition
Connie Evers, MS, RD, LDN
Child Nutrition Consultant; Author of How to Teach Nutrition to Kids

12:20-1:20 pm
Lunch

1:20-2:20 pm
Weighing in on Added Sugars and Health
Bethany Yon, PhD
Research Specialist, University of Vermont

2:20-2:40 pm
What's Your 30/90?

2:40-3:00pm
Raffle Drawings, Evaluation and Certificate Distribution
Adjournment

Registration Fee: $25 (non-refundable)

Prior Approval Request Form submitted to CDR for 4 CPEU's.

Registration & payment must be received by March 26, 2013

Mail check, payable to ADADC, and completed registration form to:

Registration
Attention: Health Professional
American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc.
Interstate Place II
100 Elwood Davis Road
North Syracuse, NY 13212


For further information, please contact Dawn Houppert at [log in to unmask]

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