Be a Healthy Eater

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Personal Development and Healthy Living

Learning objectives ：Learn to be self-disciplined, and develop healthy eating habits Able to reflect on their own eating habits and make improvements

Values and attitudes ： Self-discipline, perseverance, self- reflection

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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.

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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.

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 mother 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…

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Approach 1: Meifang chooses to eat tasty French fries at the fast food

shop with the classmate, thinking that when her mother asks her what breakfast she eats, she could answer, “I have eaten sandwiches, milk, etc.”

Breakfast Struggle

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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?

Approach 2:Meifang decided to eat French fries with her friends, only telling her mother the truth when asked by her.

Breakfast Struggle

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What does this tell about her values?Is this approach problematic? What needs improvement? What is worth learning?

Role-play ：

If you were Meifang’s mother, what would you want Meifang to do? Express her mother’s feeling.

Breakfast Struggle

Meifang, I understand that you

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Is there difference between Meifang’s mother’s wish and Meifang’s actual behavior? Why is there such a difference?

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?

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conclusionParents 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.

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Eating Crisis 　Teachers read a news story, asking students to listen carefully.

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)

Overeating 200-pound boy suffers a stroke  

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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?

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?

Eating Crisis

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conclusionStudents 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-disciplineto achieve it.

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Be a Healthy Eater

1.____________________________________________

2.____________________________________________

3. ____________________________________________

My healthy eating actions-----Set three concrete goals for improvement yourself

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Do you think your eating habit healthy?What area of your eating habits needs improvement?

Be a Healthy Eater

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

Set concrete goals for improvement (example)

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Be a Healthy Eater

"Three meals should be balanced diets,

fruit and vegetables are everyday-have,

junk snacks should be less looked at,

happiness and health will be possessed."

Students, work hard to kick the bad habits.

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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.

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summaryHealthy 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.

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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”.

Date

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Snack

Parent’s comment

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Extended student activities Healthy Eating Action Scheme

Gentle reminder:Students should choose food and drinks carefully, in accordance with the “Healthy Eating Food Pyramid” principles.

(You may refer to the following website: http://school.eatsmart.gov.hk/files/pdf/R416_en.pdf for the “Eat Smart! Follow the Pyramid” pamphlet in Printed Materials.)

Self-evaluation:

After one week, I think I can/cannot become a “Healthy Eating Expert”. In order to become a “Healthy Eating Expert”, I would :_______________________________________________

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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 .

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