{"id":8190,"date":"2022-10-26T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:13:35","slug":"healthy-eating-for-healthy-children-a-course-for-dental-hygienists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2022\/10\/26\/healthy-eating-for-healthy-children-a-course-for-dental-hygienists\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Eating for Healthy Children: A Course for Dental Hygienists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1666794078887_97\">Are you a dental hygienist interested in deepening your impact on children\u2019s health?<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Description:<\/h3>\n<p><span>This course is designed to teach dental hygienists the skills they need to talk with parents about eating a balanced diet. The course focuses on using accessible and encouraging language as well as providing talking points and conversation starters to use with parents during dental visits.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Learning Objectives:<\/h3>\n<ul id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1666794078887_101\">\n<li>Use non-stigmatizing language to talk about food and weight.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the Go-Slow-Whoa framework for making healthier food choices.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate to families how to identify the sugar content in drinks.<\/li>\n<li>Explain how parents and kids can share decision-making around food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nephtc.org\/enrol\/index.php?id=239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nephtc\/files\/2019\/09\/Learn-More.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5062 size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a dental hygienist interested in deepening your impact on children\u2019s health? Description: This course is designed to teach dental hygienists the skills they need to talk with parents about eating a balanced diet. The course focuses on using accessible and encouraging language as well as providing talking points and conversation starters to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}