[afro-nets] Nutrition Education in Primary Schools - A Planning Guide for Curriculum Development

["Claudio Schuftan" <cschuftan@phmovement.org>]

Cross-posted from: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org

Nutrition Education in Primary Schools - a planning guide for curriculum development

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2007

Website:http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0333e/a0333e00.htm

9 October 2007, Rome - Educating school children in healthy nutrition is one of the most effective strategies for overcoming malnutrition and chronic diet-related diseases but has been neglected far too long…"

"….wide-ranging new guide on teaching good eating habits to primary school children in an effort to reduce malnutrition and diet-related diseases.

The agency notes that one of the most effective strategies for overcoming malnutrition and chronic diet-related diseases, such as excess weight and obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, is educating school children in healthy nutrition…"

The Planning Guide is a resource package comprising three elements

- Vol. 1: The Reader

- Vol. 2: The Activities

- The Classroom Curriculum Chart

PDF files available at: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0333e/

Mrs. Ana Lucia Ruggiero (WDC) 
mailto:ruglucia@paho.org