Healthy Eating in Primary Schools

by Sally Robinson

• ISBN13: 9781412922654
• ISBN10: 1412922658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-23
• 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: How This Book is Structured	p. 1
Children's Eating: the Indigestible Evidence	p. 3
Children's Imbalanced Diets	p. 4
What Children Understand by Healthy Eating	p. 6
Common Reasons for Children's Imbalanced Diets	p. 7
Overweight and Obesity	p. 13
A Weighty Problem	p. 14
Reasons for Children's Increasing Weight	p. 14
Solutions for Children's Increasing Weight	p. 16
Assessing Overweight and Obesity in Childhood	p. 17
The Treatment of Overweight and Obese Children	p. 18
What Being Overweight or Obese Means for a Child	p. 18
Body Image	p. 21
Children's Body Shape Development Age 7 to 11	p. 22
Cultural Influences on Perceptions of Body Shape	p. 23
Children's Body Images	p. 23
Summary	p. 24
Gender, Body Image and Eating	p. 25
Boys' Perceptions of Body Image and Eating	p. 26
Girls' Perceptions of Body Image and Eating	p. 27
Dieting	p. 27
Dieting is Not for Children	p. 28
Children Who Diet	p. 28
How Does Dieting Begin?	p. 28
Adult Influences on Children's Eating	p. 28
Eating Distress and Eating Disorders	p. 31
Eating Distress	p. 32
Eating Disorders	p. 32
Atypical Childhood-onset Eating Disorders	p. 32
How Do Eating Disorders Begin?	p. 33
Detecting an Eating Disorder	p. 35
The Educational Management of a Child with an Eating Disorder	p. 36
What to Do if You are Concerned About a Child's Eating	p. 36
To Teach or Not to Teach About Dieting?	p. 37
A Whole-school Approach to Healthier Eating	p. 39
Every Child Matters	p. 40
European Dietary Guidelines for Children and Young People	p. 40
The Balance of Good Health	p. 41
Starting Early: Food and Nutrition of Young People	p. 43
Food and Health Action Plan	p. 43
Food in Schools Programme	p. 44
National Healthy Schools Programme	p. 45
Educational Strategies: Recommendations from Research	p. 54
Healthier Eating within the Whole-school Community	p. 55
Growing, Cooking and Providing Healthier Food	p. 56
Providing Emotional Support for Food and Body Image Problems	p. 88
Providing Education about Healthier Eating	p. 100
Lesson Plans	p. 115
The Whole-school Approach	p. 116
The Aim of the Lesson Plans	p. 116
Inclusion of All Pupils and Differentiation	p. 116
The Organisation of the Lessons	p. 117
Keeping Parents and Carers Informed	p. 117
The Lesson Plans	p. 120
Examples of Weekly Planning Sheets	p. 181
References	p. 185
Healthy Eating in Primary Schools: The Interviewees	p. 191
Useful Information: Organisations and Websites	p. 192
Useful Books	p. 202
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