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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, April 13, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- It is a typical day at the 8,000-square-foot North Bay Children's Center during their Eatin' in Novato showcase.
The nine-year old experiment in teaching nutrition education and healthy family, along with many healthy and natural foods, is up and running yet again. Now the program has caught the eye of some researchers at the University of California at San Francisco. The researchers will now be studying the centers methods over the next four months.
"[The children] are actively involved in planting, maintaining and harvesting the crops," said Claudia Chaufan, an assistant professor of health policy and social medicine at UCSF's Institute for Health and Aging. "The vegetables they grow are served at breaks and school meals. We want to find out if these learned habits practiced at school impact practices at home among children and their families."
The study will focus on the analysis and documentation of the children who become educated on the proper nutrition, and note if the information plays an active role in their dietary choices at home. Back at the garden, "anybody want some kale?" asks a teacher, and the response is one that may shock many parents as the children reply with an emphatic chorus of yeses.
"Every Tuesday, children bring home fresh produce we get from the food bank," said Susan Gilmore, the center's executive director. "We print out recipes in Spanish and English. The children are training their parents in healthy eating."
The Garden of Eatin' is not the only fresh-produce program in the Marin schools area either. "The greater majority of our schools have them (gardens)," said Miguel Villarreal, food and nutrition director for Novato Unified School District. As with the Garden of Eatin', Villarreal said, the children plant and cultivate the vegetables. "Loma Verde and Olive elementary schools are two of the most active," he said. Also, schools in the Sausalito Marin City School District have gardens as well as classroom cooking programs, and schools throughout Marin have been encouraging gardens and gardening among students.
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