Health issues, especially in the area of diet and nutrition, are a huge interest among educators who see results of poor dietary habits in children.  Students who come to school tired, unmotivated and in poor physical health have a difficult time learning and keeping up interest in what is happening in the classroom.  The reason students have difficulty in school is most often due to poor diet.  Even with the educational programs we provide at school about good food choices, children have little impact on what kinds of foods are put in front of them at home. 

 Today there is an abundance of information about nutrition, and parents are learning to assure their children have the best diet for success in school.  As far back as 1965 when Adelle Davis wrote her first books on nutrition, Let us Get Well and Let us Eat Right To Keep Fit, concerned mothers were adapting their menus to offer healthy choices.  In those books Davis says -Your nutrition can determine how you look and feel, whether you are grouchy or cheerful, homely or beautiful, whether you think clearly or are confused, enjoy your work or make it a drudgery. Those words of wisdom are still true today and why every parent should strive to prepare healthful meals.  

 A proper diet is the key to whether or not a child can obtain a good quality education.  Nutrition affects the physical, emotional, mental and intellectual growth of each child. All children need and deserve a healthy lifestyle, plus children need good role models that give them guidance they need to make good healthful decisions. Interventions to improve the nutritional status of children have a positive impact on the growth and health of children, educationa1 outcomes, and productivity as adults. Let us Eat Right!