Research & Publications

Focus Areas

Resource Types

Age Groups

Race/Ethnicity

Providing Water With Meals is Not a Concern for Young Children: Summary of the Literature & Best Practice Recommendations

Promoting water intake has been proposed in order to displace the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, and new federal and California laws now require water availability in child-care settings. However, some child-care staff have voiced concerns that if young children are provided water with meals, they will fill up on the water and not consume enough More

Keywords: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Food service, Nutrition standards, Snacks, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Water

Date: May 2012

Resource Type: Report

Focus Areas: Beverages Early Childhood Nutrition Policy & Programs

Clarifying and Disseminating the Value of Promoting Water Consumption in Child-Care Settings

Goals of promoting water in child care include enabling children at an early age to become accustomed to drinking water as the beverage of choice for quenching thirst, and helping to develop the life-long healthy habit of consuming non-caloric water instead of sugar-sweetened beverages. To address water availability in this setting, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids More

Keywords: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Child Care/Preschool, Food service, Nutrition standards, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Water

Date: December 2011

Resource Type: Commissioned Research Project Summary