First Bite (CHES)

CHES Competencies:

6.1.4 Convey health-related information to priority populations

6.1.5 Convey health-related information to key stakeholders

Advanced MCHES Competencies:

7.4.10 Evaluate advocacy efforts

7.5.1 Use evaluation and research findings

7.5.4 Use evidence-based research to develop policies to promote health

Upon successful completion, the users will be able to:

1. Discuss three major ways we grow to prefer certain foods and are disgusted by other foods.

2. Identify why some people perceive tastes differently than others and how that can influence which foods and seasonings we choose.

3. Examine two reasons why we are attracted to childhood favorite foods.

4. Explain how genetics plays a role in taste and food habits/preferences.

5. Identify which food is the most firmly implanted in Western culture and state why.

6. Describe how cultures differ on when they introduce new foods to an infant or child.

7. Distinguish which three tastes have become preferred worldwide over the last 50 years.

8. Identify the four parenting styles used to distinguish warmth and demands and define each.

9. Explain how a child’s weight is influenced by their parents, siblings, peers, and culture.

10. Describe three effects of starvation on a child’s eating habits.

11. Give four distinctions between anorexia and bulimia.

12. Identify three strategies used to introduce a child to new foods.

13. Give two counseling strategies used to change food preferences and behaviors by knowing how they originally evolved.

14. Define the “Sapere Method” of food education and state its goal.