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In this task you will be learning about how to combat childhood obesity by feeding children a healthy diet.

This power point will help you to understand the task. Start there.



This link is to the new Australian Dietary Guidelines. This is where you will find the calculators you need for this task as well as the food balance game. []

Use the Advanced Search function on www.taste.com.au to help you to find a recipe that uses the ingredients you chose in your menu.

Or try this one @http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes

You may prefer to look for a recipe first.

Try these websites to help you to choose a healthy recipe [] []
 * Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood - Cooking for Children**
 * t****aste.com.au healthy recipe collections**

You will need to use food choices to make sure your food choices are appropriate for the children

This link will take you to height / weight charts for children and adolescents as well as other calculators. You need height/weight to calculate energy requirements. []

This sheet will help you to plan your food for the day This power point will help you to write your action plan.



Your assessment will be a practical cooking lesson where you work with a partner to cook a meal that is suitable for a child's dinner. You need to send me a food order with the recipe you intend to cook .Tthe recipe needs to be presented using the following guidelines

You can download Food Choices from the following website. It is free for you to use on your home computer. []

This is how you use food choices to create a food diary. You also need to make a new recipe in food choices for the recipe you will be cooking.

When you are finished with food choices, you will need to send me the analysis. You can send it to the printer and print as a PDF file. The following instructions show you how to do this.

This is how to do your evaluation:



These videos will give you some background on Child Obesity in Australia

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The childhood obesity epidemic

media type="youtube" key="18i-LAaHgKQ" height="349" width="425" A report that states that child obesity prevention initiatives in Australia are failing and what can be done about it. media type="youtube" key="Iy1TPtGOuCs" height="349" width="560"

Eat well, be active program

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The kitchen garden program media type="youtube" key="ir8oMNM2oo8" height="349" width="560"

Now an Australian guy who is passionate about fixing this problem tells why it is such an issue

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