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Webinar Title

Bottoms Up: Helping Parents Make Informed Child Hydration Decisions

Description

Establishing healthy beverage patterns in early life is critical to ensure adequate nutrient intake and promote overall health. Despite this, many young children’s beverage intakes diverge from evidence-based recommendations. With the increasingly diverse landscape of beverages available and marketed to young children, it can become difficult for parents and caregivers to discern what is (or isn’t) a healthy beverage. To help clear up this confusion, Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, convened an expert panel of representatives from key national health and nutrition organizations to develop consensus recommendations for what young children 0-5 years old should be drinking as part of a healthy diet. This session will present the expert panel’s recommendations for healthy beverage consumption and describe strategies for applying the recommendations to patient settings, as well as policy, system, and environmental initiatives to improve public health.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe beverage intake patterns of 0 to 5-year-olds in the United States, including disparities by race/ethnicity and income levels.
2. List key recommendations for healthy beverage consumption in early childhood, including 1) beverages recommended, 2) beverages to limit, and 3) beverages not recommended as part of a healthy diet
3. Apply the expert panel’s recommendations for healthy beverage intake to patient settings and to policy, system, and environmental initiatives to improve public health.

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Presenters

Megan Lott, MPH, RDN serves as Deputy Director for Healthy Eating Research (HER), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based at Duke University in Durham, NC. HER supports research on policy, systems, and environmental approaches to improve healthy eating, food security, and reduce obesity among children. Megan is a Registered Dietitian with a B.S. in nutrition Sciences and dietetics from the University of Cincinnati and a Master's in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kirsten Arm, MPH, RDN serves as Research Analyst for Healthy Eating Research (HER), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based at Duke University in Durham, NC. In this role, Kirsten supports and disseminates research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies that promote healthy eating among children and advances nutrition and health equity. Kirsten is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and holds a B.S. in Community-Medical Dietetics from Viterbo University and a Master of Public Health in Nutrition from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.