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Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives
Early childhood is a critical stage for nutrition promotion, and childcare settings have the potential for wide-reaching impact on food intake. There are currently no Australian national guidelines for childcare food provision, and the comparability of existing guidelines across jurisdictions is unk...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186793 |
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author | Spence, Alison Love, Penelope Byrne, Rebecca Wakem, Amy Matwiejczyk, Louisa Devine, Amanda Golley, Rebecca Sambell, Ros |
author_facet | Spence, Alison Love, Penelope Byrne, Rebecca Wakem, Amy Matwiejczyk, Louisa Devine, Amanda Golley, Rebecca Sambell, Ros |
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description | Early childhood is a critical stage for nutrition promotion, and childcare settings have the potential for wide-reaching impact on food intake. There are currently no Australian national guidelines for childcare food provision, and the comparability of existing guidelines across jurisdictions is unknown. This project aimed to map and compare childcare food provision guidelines and to explore perspectives amongst early childhood nutrition experts for alignment of jurisdictional childcare food provision guidelines with the Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG). A desktop review was conducted and formed the basis of an online survey. A national convenience sample of childhood nutrition experts was surveyed. Existing guideline recommendations for food group serving quantities were similar across jurisdictions but contained many minor differences. Of the 49 survey respondents, most (84–100%) agreed with aligning food group provision recommendations to provide at least 50% of the recommended ADG serves for children. Most (94%) agreed that discretionary foods should be offered less than once per month or never. Jurisdictional childcare food provision guidelines do not currently align, raising challenges for national accreditation and the provision of support and resources for services across jurisdictions. Childhood nutrition experts support national alignment of food provision guidelines with the ADG. |
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spelling | pubmed-75580742020-10-22 Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives Spence, Alison Love, Penelope Byrne, Rebecca Wakem, Amy Matwiejczyk, Louisa Devine, Amanda Golley, Rebecca Sambell, Ros Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Early childhood is a critical stage for nutrition promotion, and childcare settings have the potential for wide-reaching impact on food intake. There are currently no Australian national guidelines for childcare food provision, and the comparability of existing guidelines across jurisdictions is unknown. This project aimed to map and compare childcare food provision guidelines and to explore perspectives amongst early childhood nutrition experts for alignment of jurisdictional childcare food provision guidelines with the Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG). A desktop review was conducted and formed the basis of an online survey. A national convenience sample of childhood nutrition experts was surveyed. Existing guideline recommendations for food group serving quantities were similar across jurisdictions but contained many minor differences. Of the 49 survey respondents, most (84–100%) agreed with aligning food group provision recommendations to provide at least 50% of the recommended ADG serves for children. Most (94%) agreed that discretionary foods should be offered less than once per month or never. Jurisdictional childcare food provision guidelines do not currently align, raising challenges for national accreditation and the provision of support and resources for services across jurisdictions. Childhood nutrition experts support national alignment of food provision guidelines with the ADG. MDPI 2020-09-17 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7558074/ /pubmed/32957687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186793 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Spence, Alison Love, Penelope Byrne, Rebecca Wakem, Amy Matwiejczyk, Louisa Devine, Amanda Golley, Rebecca Sambell, Ros Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives |
title | Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives |
title_full | Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives |
title_fullStr | Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives |
title_full_unstemmed | Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives |
title_short | Childcare Food Provision Recommendations Vary across Australia: Jurisdictional Comparison and Nutrition Expert Perspectives |
title_sort | childcare food provision recommendations vary across australia: jurisdictional comparison and nutrition expert perspectives |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957687 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186793 |
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