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Nutritional awareness at the HTL Zeltweg: Health in the curriculum
The HTL Zeltweg promotes healthy eating in class. A lecture by the association "Land creates life" shows how important nutrition for health and the environment is. Find out now!
Nutritional awareness at the HTL Zeltweg: Health in the curriculum
In the HTL Zeltweg, the topic of nutrition will play a central role in the curriculum. In a recent lecture by the association "Land creates life", the students showed how important healthy eating is for their well -being. The director of the HTL Zeltweg,Arno Martetschläger, and his committed team of teachers, above allBartholomäus Reiter, which heads the Department of Building Technology, have set themselves the goal of conveying extensive knowledge of nutrition to the students.Maria Fanninger, a member of the board of the association, provided the teachers with valuable information that enabled the students to make conscious decisions regarding their diet.
"Those who eat properly not only affect their health, but also the environment and the way in which food is produced," says Fanninger. This illustrates that nutrition is not just a personal matter, but a topic for society as a whole. The association particularly wants to anchor the scope of this topic in the heads of the students.
Important knowledge of nutrition
"Many kindergarten children have difficulty chewing because they are often only used to white bread and mushy foods," saidMaria FanningerAnd also noticed that this development in countries like the United States accepts worrying proportions.
According to current statistics, almost half of the Austrians areoverweight. This problem often leads to obesity before comprehensive diet advice and medical treatments are offered. According to Fanninger, health is strongly influenced by genes, environment and nutrition as well as movement. Who too80 percent healthy fed, can occasionally treat itself to something.
The nutritionist investigated what students like to eat. Surprisingly, they dominateNutella, Burger and sweets the preferences. In contrast, Japanese children indicate broccoli as their favorite vegetables. Such differences are also shown in the menus of school canteens, which often provide seductive offers such as chocolate croissants or pink muffins, while healthy alternatives such as fruit are hardly found.
Another problem that the speaker raised: children who do without a healthy breakfast quickly show fatigue in class. This illustrates that nutrition is closely linked to learning ability. Although the topic of nutrition is not offered as a separate subject, Fanninger sees it as important that teachers intergrate the topic in their lessons. This applies not only to subjects that are directly related, but also to foreign languages and mathematics.
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