Plan for Healthy Food for Kids
July 21st, 2009 | 
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Good food and eating habits learned in childhood. Therefore it is important to involve children in development and implementation of a healthy food culture in schools and educational organizations, writes Head of Food Administration Else Molander.
Healthy food in schools may be linked to many different subjects and help to create maddannelse writes Head of Food Administration Else Molander.
Healthy food in schools may be linked to many different subjects and help to create maddannelse writes Head of Food Administration Else Molander.
Half of the children’s daily diet eaten in school and leisure scheme. Children eat in a community where your food has more functions than just to feed and it is important to consider when working with school meals. We must give children a feeling that the school lunch counts, and not just something to be overcome. School meal should be the setting for a great way to be together.
First and foremost, the children feel like the food, it must be welcoming and taking care of the situation by eating in. The goal is that children associate healthy food with fun and togetherness coupled with good flavors.
“The framework for serving contributes to children’s public education through demonstration that food is something you share, and something to be enjoyed in peace and order in nice surroundings,” says Marjaana Mannninen, advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Education.
Healthy food in schools provide learning
Access to and focus on healthy food in school is not just a health issue, it is also a community and an opportunity to give children learning about the culture and behavior. And so the children are learning more willing if the food is good and nutritious.
There are many opportunities to involve students in various tasks around the school food. Multimedia teacher can be compared with students taking pictures of the food for the school’s bulletin board and website. Nature Trades and biology teachers can involve canteen operation in hours and such. teach students about nutrition and labels. They can also go out to look at the animals and plants we eat and learn about the many different varieties that exist within the instance. tomatoes or apples and learn about what it means to taste. Home economics teachers can work along the same principle which makes the canteen and example. sample canteen recipes. In social studies and language hours can hospitalized theme days, where work on food from a historical and cultural perspective.
Food and health in multiple disciplines
Ask such question: “What does it take to get a good life?” At Måløv School in Ballerup the answer was: Healthy food and the ability to move. Before the idea further and find out what opportunities there are to meet the demands.
In Aarhus you work with health education in the upper classes and is currently developing a web-based, interdisciplinary teaching materials. This material must be developed in collaboration with teachers of biology, mathematics, Danish and civics. It is planned that the students have to analyze data from surveys and seek relevant knowledge about adolescent health and lifestyle in the public or local databases.
At Værebro School in Bagsvaerd participating students in cooking. The canteen has a collaboration with subject teachers: In Danish, read the recipes through. In mathematics they are better at mental arithmetic. In biology takes the microbiological testing of such tables and cloths for growth experiments.
It is important that interested in what the students have the vision and proposed solutions and determining that as a professional is able to disseminate and discuss the values that the school work from. It creates consistency in the children’s world and encourages children’s involvement in the project.
Inspiration for health profiles
As part of awareness campaigns on healthy school meals, the Food Administration therefore developed a new inspiration and guidance material to help schools and municipalities to promote their health profile of school meals. The material consists, inter alia, of a directory that can be ordered for those who prepare and organize school meals. It includes nutrition recommendations for both the school and to external suppliers, an inspiration book of experiences from other schools, posters and recipes for all school meals, accompanied nutrition calculations
The material is drawn up with particular a variety of helpful Schools. The many recipes are based on children’s favorite foods, they are developed and flavored by a nutrition and husholdningsøkonom and a chef – and lives up to the recommendations. They are also tested by both internal and external school meals providers in two months.
Did you know …..
- Every fifth student between 11 and 15 years are overweight. This is mainly due to poor diets that they do not move enough – and that unhealthy food and drinks are everywhere, and is the easiest choice.
- Approximately one out of four pupils aged 11-15 years do not eat breakfast. The older they get, its more skip breakfast.
- Boys are better to eat breakfast than girls.
- 42% of pupils aged 11-15 years eating no fruit or vegetables each day.
- Girls are better to eat fruit and vegetables each day than boys.
- Approximately every third boy and girl aged 11 to 15 years eat sweets, chocolate or ice at least 5 days a week. Consumption increases with age.