Scoping of Nutrition Education Resources

Question: Discuss about the Scoping of Nutrition Education Resources. Answer: Introduction: The National Healthy School Canteen guidelines provide the national guidance as well training to the canteen manager. This helps them to make healthier foods for the school students in the school canteen. However, Peralta, Dudley and Cotton (2016) mentioned that there are regulation ranges that a school food service system needs to maintain. The school canteen managers need to maintain the food safety and the work health and safety. The ACT public school food and drink policy (2015) helps to develop the school food and drink policy to support the guidelines for the implementation of the National Healthy school canteen guidelines (2013) (Veugelers, 2015). This policy helps to provide knowledge of the food and nutrition to the school students and their parents. Example of the school canteen legislation and curriculum overseas is the school canteen legislation England. This legislation helps to educate the parents about the healthy eating and maintenance of the normal BMI range. In Australia, childhood obesity became a big issue that can lead to various health issues. According to Peralta, Dudley Cotton (2016), 24 % boys and 21.5% girls were suffering from the obesity and overweight in 2010 in Australia. The school canteen legislation can help the kids to educate about the healthy eating behavior. Therefore, the schools need to develop some curriculum activities for the school students. The teachers needs to make the students aware about the strong effects of the physical activities to maintain a healthy lifestyle and avoid the health issues. In such circumstance, the parents also need to be aware about the healthy food habit of their children. For this purpose, an action plan strategy is made and recommendation is given. Action plan strategies and recommendation Strategies Activities Timeframes Responsible persons Resources required Success measurement Raise awareness among the students to quit bad food habits Organize food time and habit information session Develop posters and pamphlets for the students Arrange meeting with the parents May to July Health and wellbeing committee School teachers Program coordinator Budget Materials for poster making Time of the school teachers Time of the program coordinators Record of the number of present students with their parents Measure the post program activities Create healthy food habit policy Set up a working group to develop and imply the healthy food habit policy July to October School teachers Program coordinator Aware students Policy makers Budget Time of the policy makers Time of the school teachers Time of the program coordinators Developed policy implementation Knowledge and awareness among the students Promote and support the healthy food habit Promote the policies and program awareness among the general public October to May Program coordinator Aware students Budget Time of the program coordinators Number of the participants in the program Success of the program Table 1: Action plan strategies and recommendation (Source: Ronto et al., 2017 and Nathan et al., 2015) References Nathan, N., Wolfenden, L., Williams, C. M., Yoong, S. L., Lecathelinais, C., Bell, A. C., ... Wiggers, J. (2015). Adoption of obesity prevention policies and practices by Australian primary schools: 2006 to 2013.Health education research,30(2), 262-271. of Healthy Eating and Active Living.Canadian Journal of Diabetes,39, S3. Peralta, L., Dudley, D., Cotton, W. (2016). Teaching Healthy Eating to Elementary School Ronto, R., Ball, L., Pendergast, D., Harris, N. (2017). Environmental factors of food literacy in Australian high schools: views of home economics teachers.International Journal of Consumer Studies,41(1), 19-27. Students: A Scoping Review of Nutrition Education Resources.Journal Of School Health,86(5), 334-345.doi.org/10.1111/josh.12382 Veugelers, P. (2015). The Effectiveness and Return on Investment of School-Based Promotion