Mingo County Schools aim to teach, encourage, and support healthy eating by students, community and staff. Schools should provide nutrition education and engage in nutrition promotion with the following actions:

· Nutrition education is offered at each grade level as part of a sequential, comprehensive, standards-based program in math, science, language arts, social sciences, and elective subjects.
· Nutrition education includes enjoyable, development tally-appropriate, culturally-relevant, participatory activities, such as contests, promotions, taste testing, health fairs and additional nutritional activities and education through the Mingo County Extension Office.
· Schools promote fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, low-fat and fat-free dairy products, healthy food preparation methods, and health-enhancing nutrition practices.
· Educators emphasize caloric balance between food intake and energy expenditure (physical activity/exercise).
· Schools shall encourage parents to pack healthy lunches and snacks.
· Schools shall show a link with school meal programs other school foods, and nutrition-related community services.
· Schools shall actively develop and support the engagement of students, families and staff in community health enhancing activities and events at the school or throughout the community.
· Students in grades Pre K-12 shall receive nutrition education that teaches the knowledge and skills needed to adopt healthy eating behaviors and is aligned with the West Virginia Health and Physical Education content standards. Nutrition education shall be integrated into the curriculum. Nutrition information and education shall be offered throughout the school campus and based on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
· Students shall be taught communication, goal setting, and decision making skills that enhance personal, family, and community health.