Promoting Healthy Eating in Schools
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- Created on: 01-06-14 08:32
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- Promoting Healthy Eating in Schools
- Make 'healthy options' of foods students like - e.g. burgers
- Offer cheaper healthy options at break and lunchtime.
- Invite speakers in to assembly to talk about healthy eating.
- Get students involved in choosing 'healthy' dishes for the menu.
- Reward regular customers with stickers, money-off vouchers, small prizes etc.
- Follow healthy eating guidelines - eat less fat, sugar, salt. Eat more fibre.
- Have tasting sessions to encourage students to try new foods.
- Invite a local chef in to demonstrate healthy appealing dishes.
- Make good use of colour, flavour, texture to make food look attractive and taste appealing.
- Include 'Healthy Eating' in the curriculum.
- Advertise new products around the school - e.g. posters, leaflets.
- Have daily 'specials'.
- Keep prices down to encourage take up.
- Include food from different cultures, for vegetarians and other special dietary needs.
- Have 'free' fruit included with purchases at break and lunchtimes.
- Vegetable and fruit pots for sale in vending machines.
- Develop a school vegetable patch - encourage 'Grow Your Own'.
- Teach students that obesity is a term used to describe people who have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 30.
- Teach students that obesity increases the risk of other diseases and health problems such as high cholesterol, heart diseases, strokes, Type 2 diabetes, stress, breathing problems,and shorter life expectancy, etc.
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