1.3. Value of Food - Children's Rights Education
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"Education is the armament of peace." (Maria Montessori, 1949)

Focus 1.3 - Action: Value of Food

Vocabulary

Choice is an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.
Disease is a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
Essential is a thing that is absolutely necessary or extremely important.
Food is any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth.
Health is a state of being free from illness or injury.
Nutrition is the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
Survival is the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. 
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Purpose - 
Healthy Food Plan

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Children have identified that they require sufficient nutritious food for optimal health and to survive. They then analyzed the ways foods can contribute or hinder human health. In this sub-unit, children construct a healthy food plan that enables them to enjoy optimal health.

Child Asks: What is a healthy food plan for me?
Children's Rights Education: Enables the child to make a healthy food plan for his/her optimal health.
Child Answers: I have to take care to eat a balanced diet so that I can be healthy.
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Classroom Learning Activities


1. Planning for a Healthy Me
Children take action to design a healthy food plan specifically for you so that your right to sufficient nutrition food can be met. Make sure to incorporate the following 10 Healthy Tips:
  1. Balance your plate with daily activity
  2. Pay attention to when your stomach says you are full
  3. Say 'no' to super sizes
  4. Choose foods with less salt
  5. Fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables
  6. Drink love fat milk
  7. Choose whole grains 
  8. Eat sugary treats once in a while - not every day
  9. Drink water - it is your right!
  10. Enjoy a variety of all food groups every day
Retrieved from Nourish Interactive

2. Eat Well and Be Active Every Day Poster
The Eat Well and Be Active Every Day poster is designed to help intermediaries educate children and adults about key healthy eating and physical activity messages and encourages individuals to take action to maintain and improve their health. Educators are encouraged to use the activity plans with a group according to the suggested sequence as some concepts in the series build on each other. Please adapt suggested activities and sequence to meet the needs of your group.
Eat Well and Be Active Every Day Toolkit - 
  1. Benefits of Eating Well and Being Physically Active
  2. Making Each Serving and All Physical Activity Count
  3. Setting SMART Goals - Use the 3-Step-Tool to guide you. 
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Retrieved from Health Canada

Relevant Convention Articles

Article 6
1. States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
2. States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.
Article 24
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health care services.
2. States Parties shall pursue full implementation of this right and, in particular, shall take appropriate measures:
(a) To diminish infant and child mortality;
(b) To ensure the provision of necessary medical assistance and health care to all children with emphasis on the development of primary health care;
(c) To combat disease and malnutrition, including within the framework of primary health care, through, inter alia, the application of readily available technology and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods and clean drinking-water, taking into consideration the dangers and risks of environmental pollution;
(d) To ensure appropriate pre-natal and post-natal health care for mothers;
(e) To ensure that all segments of society, in particular parents and children, are informed, have access to education and are supported in the use of basic knowledge of child health and nutrition, the advantages of breastfeeding, hygiene and environmental sanitation and the prevention of accidents;
(f) To develop preventive health care, guidance for parents and family planning education and services.
3. States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children.
4. States Parties undertake to promote and encourage international co-operation with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the right recognized in the present article. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of the needs of developing countries.

Online Resources and References

Health Canada - Free Eat Well and Be Active Every Day Poster 
Nourish Interactive - Free Health, Nutrition, and Food Worksheets

Important Links

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Art Work

All art in this website has been created by Lesley Friedmann, and each image is protected under international copyright law. 
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