Transcript helping year 1 students to make healthy food choices

Supporting people excluded from family, home, work or community.
Stimulating a healthy
appetite for learning
Helping year 1 students to make
healthy food choices
C. Gibson, S. O’Neill-Berest, L. Regan
Supporting people excluded from family, home, work or community.
Driscoll (2000) Model of
reflection
• What?: Returning to the situation
• So what?: Understanding the context
• Now what?: Modifying future outcomes
Supporting people excluded from family, home, work or community.
What?
• Integrating healthy eating issues into a year 1
nursing curriculum. Interactive workshops were
developed collaboratively with staff from the
Good Food Programme about:
• Sugar and salt,
• Fibre
• Healthy eating on a budget.
Pop Quiz
How many spoons of sugar are there in a
standard portion of Branflakes?
So what?
University students are at risk of making
unhealthy food choices due to:
• Cost
• Competing spending priorities,
• Availability of healthy foodstuff
• Unfamiliarity with food utilisation
Poor nutrition can impact on students'
concentration, academic abilities and lead to the
risk of ill health in future life.
•
Now what?
• Raising awareness
• Collaborative
working
• Funding
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