Healthy eating from the start!

The importance of a healthy diet during pregnancy and from an early age is undisputed. With an age-appropriate and sustainable diet, parents and other carers contribute a great deal to a child's good development and health in later life. And they also benefit from a healthy diet themselves.

Whether nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding, feeding complementary foods and bottle feeding, feeding infants or children at home, in childcare centres and at school:

We provide (expectant) parents, relatives and professionals with quality-assured and science-based information.

Our goals

• Promoting healthy, age-appropriate and sustainable nutritional behaviour in every child from the very beginning - as a contribution to healthy growth
• Promotion of living spaces that enable healthy nutrition from the outset
• Putting controversial nutritional messages on a scientific footing and standardising them
• Making scientific findings in the field of infant and child nutrition as well as nutrition for pregnant and breastfeeding women accessible to everyone - as target group-orientated, easy to understand and relevant to everyday life as possible
• Creation of a supra-regional skilled labour network

"healthy eating from the start!" has already reached over 2.4 million people - with free and independent information!

Current work priorities (2021 - 2025)

• Development of opportunity-orientated, accurate information offerings
• Development of recommendations and measures to promote breastfeeding
• Optimisation of communal catering in childcare facilities and schools

Here you will find further information about our programme