#SaludTues Tweetchat 1p ET 11/15/16: Is Your Baby’s Food Healthy?

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Is the food your baby eats truly healthy?

Marketing for baby and toddler food and formula often contradicts expert guidance and “encourages parents to feed their young children products that may not promote healthy eating habits” needed for lifelong health, according to a new report.

tweetchat baby food formulaMarketing of added-sugar baby foods to Latino parents is especially problematic, given Latino children’s higher rates of overweight and obesity and health disparities.

Let’s use #SaludTues on Nov. 15, 2016, to tweet about marketing techniques and the truth about the nutritional quality of children’s food and beverages.

  • WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat “Is Your Baby’s Food What It’s Cracked Up to Be”
  • TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. EST Tuesday, November 15, 2016
  • WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
  • HOST: @SaludToday
  • CO-HOSTS: UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (@UConnRuddCenter), 1,000 Days (@1000Days), Nacersano Baby (@nacersanobaby), and National WIC Association (@NatWICAssoc)
  • Optional Hashtags: #BabyFood #AddedSugar #LatinoHealth

We’ll open the floor to your experiences and stories as we discuss:

  • Nutritional quality of children’s food and beverages.
  • Why it’s important to look into marketing techniques of baby and toddler food companies.
  • How to counteract misinformation that may be communicated through marketing of baby food and drink products.

Be sure to use the hashtag #SaludTues to follow the conversation on Twitter and share your strategies, stories, and resources for supporting healthy kids.

#SaludTues is a weekly Tweetchat about Latino health at 12p CST/1p ET every Tuesday and hosted by @SaludToday, the Latino health social media campaign for the team at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

By The Numbers By The Numbers

20.7

percent

of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)

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