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Be a Healthy Eater

Explore the importance of developing healthy eating habits, the struggles students face, and practical tips for improvement. Discuss the impact on overall health and well-being.

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Be a Healthy Eater

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  1. Be a Healthy Eater 1

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  3. Our Eating Habits • Who has breakfast first before going to school every day? What do you eat usually? • Has anyone gone to school with an empty stomach? • What eating habits are beneficial to health? • Who can maintain these good eating habits? Please share your experience. • Why can’t you maintain these good eating habits? Share the difficulties you encountered. Students may encounter many difficulties when practising healthy eating habits. It is thus important to learn to be self-disciplined and develop good eating habits. 3

  4. Breakfast Struggle Scenario: Every day Meifang eats breakfast with her mother before going to school, but this week her mother is on a business trip. Before she left, she asks her to eat nutritious breakfast every day. At first Meifang is very self-disciplined, choosing mainly porridge, noodles, eggs and milk for breakfast ... Three days later, Meifang meets a classmate asking her to go to a fast food shop to eat French fries. It is a rare opportunity to eat delicious French fries, but she remembers her parents and teacher have asked her to develop healthy eating habits by avoiding fried and high-fat food… She is struggling about what she should do… 4

  5. Breakfast Struggle • What does that show about her values? • Is this approach problematic? • In order to satisfy her desire, Meifang lied to her mother. Is it worthwhile? Are there better ways to handle it? 5

  6. Breakfast Struggle • What does this tell about her values? • Is this approach problematic? What needs improvement? What is worth learning? 6

  7. Breakfast Struggle Role-play:If you were Meifang’s mother, what would you want Meifang to do? Express her mother’s feeling. Meifang, I understand that you __________________________________________________ • Is there difference between Meifang’s mother’s wish and Meifang’s actual behavior? • Why is there such a difference? 7

  8. Breakfast Struggle • Do you have similar struggles? • What is your biggest struggle? • Given that you know that some food should be eaten regularly, and some food should be avoided, why do you sometimes have difficulty to do so? • What are the difficulties? • How do you overcome? 8

  9. conclusion Parents generally attach great importance to the family's health, but less often able to supervise their children's eating habits. There are also too many temptations in society such as a great many choices of snack, and peer influence, so students should be disciplined in their diet. NO 9

  10. Eating Crisis Teachers read a news story, asking students to listen carefully. Overeating 200-pound boy suffers a stroke A 14-year-old obese boy who weighs two hundred pounds suffers from a mild stroke because of overeating frequently. Eating too often fast food and lunch boxes cause an increase in his weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The boy’s left face once had paralysis and convulsions. The doctor advised him to change his diet and lifestyle to prevent suffering from stroke again. (Source: Adapted from an online news report in April, 2010) • Is your eating habit similar to that of the boy in the news above? • Do you think your eating habit healthy? • Would you change your eating habits for your own health? 10

  11. Eating Crisis • What do you feel when hearing the report? • Do you think obesity is a problem? Why? • Would you change your eating habits for your health’s sake? • If you think your eating habit is unhealthy, why don’t you change? • What price do you have to pay to develop healthy eating habits? • What attitude should you adopt to develop good eating habits? 11

  12. conclusion Students wishing to develop good eating habits may have to pay a price, for example, rejecting the invitation from peers, giving up personal preferences, etc., and the perseverance and self-discipline to achieve it. 12

  13. Be a Healthy Eater • Do you think your eating habit healthy? • What area of your eating habits needs improvement? My healthy eating actions-----Set three concrete goals for improvement yourself 13

  14. Be a Healthy Eater Set concrete goals for improvement (example) • Set concrete and feasible goals: 1. eat nutritious breakfast every day 2. eat fewer snacks 3. eat healthy snacks, such as yogurt, and drink coke once a week only • Find the area that needs improvement • 1. no breakfast- • eating habit • 2.always eat • snacks • 3. eat unhealthy • food to eat, • such as ice- • cream, coke 14

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  16. conclusion Students set specific improvement goals for their eating habits and keep practicing in daily life. The good habits developed are beneficial to whole-person development. 16

  17. summary Healthy eating habits are essential for whole-person health, but the eating habit of many people is far from satisfactory. Of course, changing their eating behavior presents a lot of difficulties, but even though students cannot change their habits overnight, they should still set some goals for themselves. Daily self-discipline and perseverance help develop good eating habits, and facilitate whole-person development. 17

  18. Extended student activities Healthy Eating Action Scheme Students can record their weekly food intake with drawings or text to see if they can become “healthy eating experts”. 18

  19. Extended student activities Healthy Eating Action Scheme 19

  20. Extended student activities Healthy Eating Action Scheme Parents are welcome to join the parent-child activity “Healthy Snacks Taste Better” organised by the Parents Association to cook healthy food with their children. Parents can write down the cooking methods and materials, take photos of the production process and the finished products for the school to display on the bulletin board to share the joy with everyone and fill the school with "healthy eating" atmosphere . 20

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