Healthy Eating in Primary Schools

by Sally Robinson

• ISBN13: 9781412911610
• ISBN10: 1412911613
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-03
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Developed with the support of the Kent Healthy Schools Programme to encourage primary schools to promote healthy eating, this resource takes a whole-school, holistic approach towards children's eating and relates to the PSHE Curriculum and the Healthy Schools Programme. There is a good blend of easily accessible information on healthy eating supported by individual case studies. The three sections cover: " a summary of the range of children's eating issues " strategies for promoting healthy eating and preventing, recognising and dealing with eating problems " examples of lesson plans related to the physical, emotional and social aspects of children's eating. Dr Sally Robinson is principal lecturer in the Department of Health and Social Welfare Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(1)
How This Book is Structured	1	(2)
Children's Eating: the Indigestible Evidence	3	(10)
Children's Imbalanced Diets	4	(2)
What Children Understand by Healthy Eating	6	(1)
Common Reasons for Children's Imbalanced Diets	7	(6)
Overweight and Obesity	13	(8)
A Weighty Problem	14	(1)
Reasons for Children's Increasing Weight	14	(2)
Solutions for Children's Increasing Weight	16	(1)
Assessing Overweight and Obesity in Childhood	17	(1)
The Treatment of Overweight and Obese Children	18	(1)
What Being Overweight or Obese Means for a Child	18	(3)
Body Image	21	(4)
Children's Body Shape Development Age 7 to 11	22	(1)
Cultural Influences on Perceptions of Body Shape	23	(1)
Children's Body Images	23	(1)
Summary	24	(1)
Gender, Body Image and Eating	25	(2)
Boys' Perceptions of Body Image and Eating	26	(1)
Girls' Perceptions of Body Image and Eating	27	(1)
Dieting	27	(4)
Dieting is Not for Children	28	(1)
Children Who Diet	28	(1)
How Does Dieting Begin?	28	(1)
Adult Influences on Children's Eating	28	(3)
Eating Distress and Eating Disorders	31	(8)
Eating Distress	32	(1)
Eating Disorders	32	(1)
Atypical Childhood-onset Eating Disorders	32	(1)
How Do Eating Disorders Begin?	33	(2)
Detecting an Eating Disorder	35	(1)
The Educational Management of a Child with an Eating Disorder	36	(1)
What to Do if You are Concerned About a Child's Eating	36	(1)
To Teach or Not to Teach About Dieting?	37	(2)
A Whole-school Approach to Healthier Eating	39	(16)
Every Child Matters	40	(1)
European Dietary Guidelines for Children and Young People	40	(1)
The Balance of Good Health	41	(2)
Starting Early: Food and Nutrition of Young People	43	(1)
Food and Health Action Plan	43	(1)
Food in Schools Programme	44	(1)
National Healthy Schools Programme	45	(9)
Educational Strategies: Recommendations from Research	54	(1)
Healthier Eating within the Whole-school Community	55	(60)
Growing, Cooking and Providing Healthier Food	56	(32)
Providing Emotional Support for Food and Body Image Problems	88	(12)
Providing Education about Healthier Eating	100	(15)
Lesson Plans	115	(66)
The Whole-school Approach	116	(1)
The Aim of the Lesson Plans	116	(1)
Inclusion of All Pupils and Differentiation	116	(1)
The Organisation of the Lessons	117	(1)
Keeping Parents and Carers Informed	117	(3)
The Lesson Plans	120	(61)
Examples of Weekly Planning Sheets	181	(4)
References	185	(6)
Appendix 1 Healthy Eating in Primary Schools: The Interviewees	191	(1)
Appendix 2 Useful Information: Organisations and Websites	192	(10)
Appendix 3 Useful Books	202