Posted on 10/23/2014 12:12:55 PM PDT by Whenifhow
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has written four lesson plans aimed at teaching students how to eat, and is encouraging schools around the country to teach these plans to kids in high school.
The lesson plans are being paired with a new online tool called SuperTracker, which lets students input all the food they eat all day to better track their weight and their eating habits. The tool also tracks their physical activities each day.
The lesson plans, which USDA presented as a 67-page online textbook for teachers, includes certificates that can be given to students who use the SuperTracker tool: USDAs textbook noted that high school students are increasingly in control over decisions about their health, and said school officials should do more to make sure they make the right choices.
While the decision to choose a healthy lifestyle is ultimately up to the individual, teachers have the opportunity to influence their students by providing them with the information they need to make knowledgeable and responsible choices, it said. Teachers are a key resource for disseminating healthy messages, as they play a large role in shaping the views and behaviors that students will use in the future.
USDA said the lesson plans are designed to be taught over four 40-minute periods. But its not clear if the plans are supposed to substitute for students health classes or gym classes that they might be taking.
According to the textbook, the goal of the classes are to ensure students eat the right amount of the right foods every day, eat healthy snacks, and even support others to eat healthfully. It also anticipates that some students may not want to talk openly about their height, weight and what they eat.
It is important to create a safe, judgment free learning environment for students when using SuperTracker in a classroom setting, it said. Keep in mind that some students may not be comfortable entering sensitive information such as their weight or food choices in front of their peers.
The four lesson plans are titled, Track Your Snack, Whats Your Plan, Three-Day Food Record, and Build Healthy Meals.
Mine too. I love vegetables just fine, but I could never give up meat. Yum. I need to cook a roast.
Your body turns everything you eat to sugar ,so it doesn’t matter what you eat ,just how much
Chocolate falls under the Sugar group, along with every other sweet food.
Wasn’t that what home economics classes were for?
So the government can track students eating habits.
Kids cant get their homework done much less keep track of what they eat.
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You are right - this is all about tracking!!
In common core they track everything else for kids.
Have you noticed how many times the word “tracked” has been used in sound bytes, (especially about the travel ban?).
LOL
Seems there's another group should be targeted first.
Just sayin.
Eating. It’s an art.
How to eat? I believe you can learn that from people called PARENTS. By High School, you should know how to use silverware and how to eat...
well the CDC thinks parents need assistance..
‘Parents are Key’ to success of National Teen Driver Safety Week, says CDC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218699/posts
What do you mean? They seem to be more than capable of packin it in.
Tracking tool for all high school students? What could go wrong? WOW
Thanks! :)
‘Tofu’ anything is a problem with me, LOL!
now that we have apps for personal health, we can all upload them to the federal government so they can adjust our insurance rates on a daily basis.
Great stuff
What the public schools should really teach is how NOT to take dietary advice from enemy islamists.
now that we have apps for personal health, we can all upload them to the federal government so they can adjust our insurance rates on a daily basis.
Great stuff
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Or with the new pay system in the apple 6 - they could PREVENT you from buying that pizza, cookies or whatever!!
...control your healthcare, control your guns, control the energy you consume, control your light bulbs, control the gas can to fill your mower, control your microwave, control your education.
What? Aren’t you thankful the world is full of such smart people that want to control you?
Another great feature
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