Children's Lunches
March 18th 2008 03:43
I remember a school unit I did once with my Year 3 class on “healthy eating.” I asked the children one lesson to bring their lunch boxes into the classroom and we would look at ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods. The first thing I asked the children to do was to hold up a piece of fruit from their lunchbox. I was expecting the children to hold up something like an apple or an orange, but instead, most of the children held up roll-ups, fruit lollies and fruit sticks. I took a fruit stick from one of the children and asked the class to put their hand up if they thought that it was a fruit. Most of the children put their hand up. The fruit stick label said that it was ‘100% apple.’ I then proceeded to ask the children how an apple from a tree could turn into a fruit stick, because fruit sticks don’t grow on trees. It was amazing to see the responses the children gave and also made me realise how uneducated the children of today are about the food they eat. Nearly all of the lunch boxes in the classroom were filled with packaged foods that were full of sugar. Most of the items the children had said were ‘healthy’ were in fact ‘unhealthy’ and loaded with sugar. It’s no wonder more and more children are finding it hard to concentrate in class and conditions such as ADHD are on the rise. Studies have shown that students who eat foods throughout the day that are low in sugar achieve higher grades and have the ability to concentrate for a lot longer. If this is the case, why do you think there are so many children eating unhealthy foods full of sugar every day?
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Comment by Harry
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They just don't know or realise what they are doing to their children because they don't look past the glossy advertising.