S2+Task+1+-+Healthy+Food

In Australia today, there is a significant health issue confronting our children. This is issue is the childhood obesity epidemic. The following videos delve into this problem and uncover why this is such a concern. (Most of these videos are on You Tubs so can't be watched on the school network. You may be able to watch them at home or on your mobile phones. The Jamie Oliver video is a TED Talk so you can watch it at school))

__Jamie Oliver: Teach Every Child about food (TED Talk)__ media type="custom" key="23535290"

__Reducing Childhood obesity matters to Louise Baur__ media type="custom" key="23535346"

__Dr Andrew Rochford talks about childhood obesity__ media type="custom" key="23535380"

__10 year old battles childhood obesity__ media type="custom" key="23535382"

__Too fat to toddle__ media type="custom" key="23535390"

__Task 1 - Healthy Food - Healthy Kids__
This assessment task is designed for you to investigate one significant nutrition issue confronting our children and find out how technology can be used to help combat this issue.

This snapshot of Aussie kids was prepared from the 2012 report on the longitudinal study of Australian children being conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies called 'Growing up in Australia'. A summary is presented on the PDF and the powerpoint 100 Aussie kids.

__A snapshot of 100 Aussie Kids__



There are other significant health issues besides obesity that many Australian children are facing. The Smith Family did a report titled " How is learning enhanced through improved health and nutrition?" The full report is presented as a PDF below or there is a summary in the word document below that. Take a look at the report summary and identify the significant health and nutrition issues facing children in Australia today. Write these up to use later. You can do this in your book or on your computer in word or a google docs.

__ The Smith Family Report into Health and the Impact on Learning __

__The Smith Family Report Summary__

__**Powerpoint Summary of Smith Family Report**__

__New Australian Nutrition Guidelines__ The Australian Government released new Dietary Guidelines for Australians earlier this year and launched a new website to help consumers to understand and use the guidelines. www.eatforhealth.gov.au. There are tools like nutrition calculators and a food balance game to help people to understand what they should be eating to keep healthy. Visit the website to find out about healthy eating for all Australians - adults, children, teenagers, the elderly. Take a look around and see what you can find out. Write about what you have learned - add it to the other information you have collected.

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This is the digital copy of the brochure about healthy eating for children from the dietary guidelines. This will help you in this assessment task. __Eat for Health - Children's Dietary Guidelines__

One of the identified health issues is dental decay. Here Australian children talk about teeth and what they know about them.

__**Australian kids talk teeth**__ media type="custom" key="23535228"

This is one tool that is available in America to help parents to teach kids how to eat a healthy diet and how to keep track of what they are eating. It is a simple idea to teach children to take responsibility and learn at the same time. What do you think?

__**An apple a day nutrition tracker**__ media type="custom" key="23535264"