Sunday, January 29, 2012
What is Nutrition in Education?
What is Nutrition in Education?How is nutrition in education defined? Ideally, I would like it to mean that children in every school, took a nutrition and life class along with math, science, reading and writing. No one have ever died from from spelling receive "R-E-C-I-E-V-E" or forgetting the formula for Pythagorean theorem. Meanwhile poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle has us dropping like flies.
But for now, that is little more than a pipe dream. Especially since we are currently facing battles like "kids should get a daily recess" and "pizza is a vegetable" on the school nutrition front.So, what are the topics that affect nutrition in schools?
The first one that comes to mind is school lunches - the actual food available in schools. The next most obvious is PE or "gym". After that, people may think of recess or maybe nutrition workshops or after-school programs.
Another consideration is the school food environment - say what? Well that covers things like the availability of sodas in vending machines, and the appearance of the cafeteria.And the of course there is nutrition as part of curriculum.
In the following days, I will post a brief explanation of these Nutrition in Education topics, because in order to advocate, we must first need to understand the beast we are about to battle!
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