Eat Well to Excel, the Simcoe Nutrition Program For School-Age Children is grateful for your interest.
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Mission Statement
In consultation and collaboration with community partners, we promote the healthy development of school-age children in Simcoe County. We do so by helping to provide children with nutritious foods in the context of school nutrition programs, by helping to fund such programs, and by encouraging lifelong, healthy eating habits through nutrition-related education in the schools and the community.
WHAT'S NEW
Eat Well to Excel gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Huronia Community Foundation, which is the public foundation serving the people of Huronia. The Foundation builds permanently endowed charitable funds for the changing needs and opportunities of the community and provides grants to eligible charitable organizations in arts and culture, education, health, environment, sports and recreation and social service sectors. We would like to thank you for your generous donation. It is organizations like you that help make our programs a success.
In 2010, approximately 68.4 million nutritious breakfasts, snacks and lunches were served to over 600,000 elementary and secondary students through Ontario's Student Nutrition Program. View Full Story.
Nutrition Workshops
Are you presently a volunteer or would like to learn more about serving healthy food choices to students...
Eat Well To Excel, in partnership with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, are hosting six Nutrition Workshops for volunteers of the EWTE Student Nutrition Programs.
Check out the flyer HERE, and RSVP with our coordinators.
For the first time, a national food guide has been created which reflects the values, traditions and food choices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. This new tailored food guide includes both traditional foods and store-bought foods that are generally available, affordable and accessible across Canada and provides unique images and content...For more information visit Health Canada Here.
View PDF of Food Guide
New scholarly research findings have come on the heels of related research over the past twenty years into the relationship between inadequate nutrition and a variety of adverse developmental outcomes in children. This interactive relationship between sufficient nourishment and brain function extends to the emotional and behavioral health of children. The body of evidence, drawn from more than 100 published research articles, provides the scientific basis for concluding that school breakfast programs are highly effective in terms of providing children with a stronger basis to learn in school, eat more nutritious diets, and lead more healthy lives.
Check out the new report, Commissioned by the Sodexo Foundation
Article on Benefits of Student Nutrition Program. (PDF 665KB)
