FOOD AND NUTRITION

KEY AREA OF LEARNING

• Make informed decisions about food choices
• Examine influence of food on Hauora
• Examine the influences of self, others, society on nutrition
• Key messages reinforced in the school environment
• Have practical cooking opportunities (HE)

KEY AREAS CONTD

• How food relates to growth & development
• How nutrition, exercise and wellbeing interrelate
• Knowledge of costs associated with food
• Selecting patterns (pyramid and labels)

SENSITIVITIES

• Advice is constantly changing
• Society is obsessed with diets
• Invested parties - lobby change
• Personal beliefs and values
• Growing, adolescence phase

Diets in Schools?

Burrows (2009):Students predominantly link good health to weight, size and shape.

BE HEALTHY, BE ACTIVE

There is considerable evidence linking children's nutrition to educational outcomes (Ministry of Education, 2003)

CHANGE IN LEGISLATION

• Provide only healthy food - removed
• Why?
• National party response - "unnecessary"
• 'Guidelines' not compulsory

Govt urged to reinstate guidelines
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2065951/govt-...

CHILDHOOD OBESITY PLAN
A new health target will be implemented from 1 July 2016: ‘By December 2017, 95% of obese children identified in the Before School Check (B4SC) programme will be referred to a health professional for clinical assessment and family based nutrition, activity and lifestyle interventions.’

Childhood Obesity Plan

• Active Families programme - PA & Nutrition programmes
• Kiwisport (Aktive) has increased funding to target low participation groups (Indian,Samoan)
• Clinical guidance for weight management
• Health Star ratings (voluntary)

Contd

• review of the Code for Advertising for advertising food to children
• Play.sport aims to improve the quality and quantity of PE & Sport.
• HPS support will be expanded to 150 more decile 1–4 schools
• http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/obesity/childhoo...

IS IT ENOUGH......
http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/opposition-experts-slam-govts-obesity-plan-...

HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR....
Lisette Burrows, lunchbox checks, stigma, one size fits all, body shaming, fat=unfit?

MOE FOOD & NUTRITION GUIDELINES

Teaching Activities

Feedback

• Summarise the key learning outcomes (don't just read them)
• Present one of the activities - explain how you have added value or modified it
• Write success criteria for the activity

JAMIE OLIVER

CRITICAL REVIEW OF JAMIES TALK

• Good bits, bad bits, ok bits
• Key messages you would reinforce?
• Anything missing?
• NZ specific context
• Not as simple as a good or bad resource