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It's
now National Nutrition
Week (October 30 - November 3) and so our hot Topic this week looks
at healthy eating.
A summary of results from the NZ
Food: NZ People. Key results of the 1997 National Nutrition Survey
is now online at the Ministry of Health site. A summary from the same
publication of children's
eating habits is also available.
Nutrition falls within the Key Area of Learning "Food and Nutrition"
in the Health and Physical Education
in New Zealand Curriculum.
A good place to start this unit of work would be with the books sent
to schools as part of the series The Curriculum in Action, Healthy People
Eat Healthy Food. They are: Food and Nutrition: Years 1-3, ISBN
0 478 23602 6, Learning Media Item No 23602, and Choice Food! Food
and Nutrition: Years 7-8, ISBN 0 478 23601 8.
Information about healthy eating and the food pyramid is available on
a video called Eat
to Beat.
The 5 Plus a Day web site provides
classroom activities, scientific information and reports on research into
nutrition.
The International Food Information Council
site has several resources on healthy eating and physical activity. The Nutrition
and Physical Activity Program from the Public Health Division of the Government
of Western Australia covers similar territory.
The New Zealand Cancer Society
provides information about the link between good nutrition and good health.
The Wellington college of education's Healthy
Lifestyles, Lifestyle Nutrition page provides modules of work on nutritious
lunches and breakfasts.
The book Sports
Nutrition for Young People examines the application of nutrition to
achievement in sport.
The Around
the World Food Technology Unit, for year 8 students, covers the application
of nutritional information in food technology.
HomeEc/1/1
- A version 2 is entitled "Children's Food Plan" and relates to the
New Zealand home economics achievement standard 1.1. It examines the planning
and preparation of food to meet the nutritional needs of children and
links to the level 6 achievement objectives A1, and C1 to C3 of Health
and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum.
HomeEc/1/2
- A version 2 is called "Rachel and Keri", and relates to New Zealand
home economics achievement atandard 1.2. It examines the planning and
preparation of food to meet nutritional needs during adolescence, with
emphasis on hygiene and links to the level 6 achievement objectives A1,
3, 4, and D1 of Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum.
It requires an evaluation of the part that the family and society play
in influencing the food choices of young people.
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