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Emily SpinkWellness in Young ChildrenNutrition ArticleNovember 25, 2013Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services in New York City, Linda Gibbs, announced the “Fruits and Vegetables Prescription Program.” The announcement was given at HHC’s Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx CITATION Fru13 \l 1033 (Fruit and Vegetable Prescri, 2013). “This program makes New York City the largest U.S. city to officially acknowledge that fruits and vegetables have a role to play in preventing chronic disease” CITATION Ada13 \l 1033 (Adams, 2013). There are two New York City hospitals, Lincoln Medical Center and Harlem Hospital Center in Manhattan, gain the nations moved on letting doctors prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables to patients of low income families. The program will give $2 of “Health Bucks” coupons per person in the family each week to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at local farmers markets CITATION NYC13 \l 1033 (NYC doctors prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables, 2013). The hospitals will try to enroll 70 patients that will be part of the program for four months. “This year, Health Bucks will make more than $560,000 worth of fruits and vegetables available to low-income New Yorkers” CITATION Fru13 \l 1033 (Fruit and Vegetable Prescri, 2013). However, the FDA is trying to say that the doctors can’t prescribe fruits and vegetables because it’s making the foods like a drug so they are saying that the fruit and vegetables are “unapproved new drugs” CITATION Ada13 \l 1033 (Adams, 2013). The Fruits and Vegetables Prescription Program is a great idea because it helps people become aware of the foods that they are consuming. Also, “the four-month program include lessons on nutrition and cooking classes for both children and adults” CITATION NYC13 \l 1033 (NYC doctors prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables, 2013). There should be more hospitals that are joining the program in the nation because the fruits and vegetables have a lot nutrition that help prevent disease. “Blueberries, for example, contain natural medicines that help prevent heart disease” and “broccoli contains natural medicines that help prevent cancer” CITATION Ada13 \l 1033 (Adams, 2013). The Health Bucks should be available for more families that have low incomes because there are many other benefits to eating healthier and with food stamps many people can’t afford healthier foods. It is surprising that the FDA is trying to say that prescribing fruits and vegetables is making the food a drug though. FDA shouldn’t try to deny the fact that fruits and vegetables have been proven to contain different medicines that could save someone’s life. That’s why it is important to educate children about the importance of the foods that they take in.There are many different types of lesson plans that teachers can do to help the children in their care to eat healthier. One lesson plan that a teacher could do to help children understand the importance of fruits and vegetables is by including the fruits and vegetables into the children’s snack time and making it a lesson for the children to follow. The children can help prepare smoothies or a fruit cup by peeling the different fruits and doing a math lesson plan with them. Children can have fun preparing their health snacks and learn about health and portion sizes as they prepare it. If children prepare the food they are more likely to try the different foods.There are different books that help children learn about different types of fruits and vegetables. One book is the ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetable and Beyond by Steven Charney. A teacher can make a story lesson plan based off of this book. The children can name off of the vegetables and fruits that were in the book and do a game. The game could be sorting the fruits from the vegetables or sorting the vegetables and fruits based on what they look like. There are other books that could be used like Eat Your Peas, Louise by Pegeen Snow. For this book the children could have peas for a snack well reading the book. Therefore the children understand that it is important to eat your peas even if you don’t want to eat them. Another book could be Green Eggs and Sam by Dr. Seuss. This book the children could have scramble eggs with food coloring in them and the teacher could add different vegetables in the scramble eggs and have fruit on the side of the plate. A creative art lesson plan that the children may have fun doing is creating their own menus with pictures that were cut out of different magazines or pictures of healthy foods. These magazine could be used when the children are playing or be taken home with them for their parents to see the different menus that their children had created. The teacher could also try and find different recipes that go along with the pictures and give those to the parents. Eventually the children could make their own cookbook using the different recipes and the pictures that they found to give to their parents to help encourage parents to cook healthier meals at home. These are a few different lesson plans that a teacher could use well teaching the children in their care. After reading this article the teacher could include the foods that have the different benefits for the children. Also, if a student is from a low income family the teacher could give out newsletters that talk about the Health Bucks and where a family can go to get the health bucks. The teacher could give out information about the nutrition classes or the cooking classes that are open to the public. Also the teacher could find different lesson plans and ways to include different foods in the classroom for the children to eat. The teacher could also take the children to a local farmers market as a field trip and go over the different fruits and vegetables that the children see there. The teacher has to remember to include the parents when teaching about nutrition because the parents are the main people that feed the children. Works Cited BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, M. (2013, July 28). NYC allows doctors to prescribe fresh fruit and vegetables as treatment for obesity; FDA declares veggies 'unapproved drugs'. Natural News. Retrieved November 24, 2013, from (2013). Fruit and Vegetable Prescri. Press Release , New York City. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from doctors prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables. (2013, July 24). The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from ................
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