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    Nutrition Education

    1 Healthy eating in childhood improves children’s


    health because it positively impacts their growth
    and might protect them from the development of
    obesity and chronic diseases later in life. The
    school environment provides an effective
    setting for teaching children about nutrition and
    healthy eating. Accordingly, nutrition education
    programs have been used over the past few
    decades to teach children about nutrition and
    provide them with knowledge and skills to make
    healthy food choices.

    2Nutrition education is not just learning
    about food and vitamins; it is for learning
    about what to do and how to act to
    improve nutrition. Starting nutrition
    education in the early school years can be
    a suitable opportunity for shaping
    children’s thinking about food because
    eating habits are formed during childhood.
    3 The aim of nutrition education is to develop
    positive attitudes towards good food and
    physical activity and to provide motivation for
    leading a healthy lifestyle. In addition, it aims
    to assist children in identifying valid
    resources that provide correct information
    about healthy food. Nutrition education also
    seeks to offer children lifelong know ledge
    and skills they can pass on to their own
    families and future generations.
    4 In general, nutrition education programs
    include maintaining healthy weight, food
    safety and information about kinds of food
    required for the processes of the body and
    its growth. Besides, nutrition education
    involves various learning activities for
    children, staff and parents in a group
    setting. They may include presentations,
    food preparation, discussions, food tasting
    and physical fitness programs.
    5 Subsequently, planning nutrition education
    programs requires guiding educators on designing a
    nutrition curriculum to ensure a well-defined program.
    Governments should help by providing fundamental
    nutrition concepts to be learned in each grade level
    and within subjects such as Life and Earth Sciences.
    Also, plans for nutrition education programs need to be
    connected with healthy school meals to help children
    experience eating nutritious food. Teachers need to
    design interesting cooking projects to help children
    learn about food. For example, teachers can focus on
    cooking vegetables or following a recipe of whole
    grains to stress the importance of selecting nutritious
    food.
    6 A school garden project can help to
    reinforce the nutrition education of children
    and their families. The main benefit of a
    school garden project is that children learn
    how to work collaboratively to grow healthy
    food and use it for better nutrition. This can
    best be done if the garden fresh fruits and
    vegetables are used for school meals. Beyond
    this, a school garden project would raise
    awareness about protecting the environment
    7Hence, schools have the ability to
    impact future public health. Nutrition
    education should start in school not as an
    optional subject but a compulsory one
    that ends with a final exam; if you fail, it
    means you have to do remedial studies.

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