Food Education is about how study on food education should be an integrated part of the school curriculum, and that hands-on cooking and essential food skills should be taught to every child, at every school in the country.
If every child had the opportunity to learn about, grow and cook food and understand the implications of food waste on the wider community, we believe they’d have the knowledge and tools to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives. Studies show that: the more children learn about food and nutrition, the more likely they are to eat fruit and vegetables. The more children cook and prepare fresh food from scratch, the more likely they are to appreciate healthier and more varied ingredients and the more children plant and harvest fruit and vegetables, the more motivated they’ll be to eat them also.
Providing our children with food education has never been more vitally important as it is today. Many children in the Philippine are obese. What is more, as a result of obesity-related disease, this generation of children are predicted to be the first to die at a younger age than their parents.
What can we do to reverse these trends ? Schools, together with local communities and families, need to be at the heart of food education, to teach children about food, where it comes from and how it affects our bodies and therefore, to put the tools of prevention in the hands of children themselves.
Schools not only play an important role in helping to shape the next generation, they’re responsible for teaching essential skills and knowledge, such as reading, writing, computer literacy and mathematics. Cooking skills and food knowledge, however, are clearly not prioritized like these subjects, or even considered to be essential skills. Our campaign aims to reverse this trend.
` Let us start in every school food education, as an initiative to raise awareness about the importance of food education. Together we will build a broad base of support and decide on next steps to advance the issue in our nation’s schools.
If every child had the opportunity to learn about, grow and cook food and understand the implications of food waste on the wider community, we believe they’d have the knowledge and tools to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives. Studies show that:-the more children learn about food and nutrition, the more likely they are to eat fruit and vegetables.-The more children cook and prepare fresh food from scratch, the more likely they are to appreciate healthier and more varied ingredients-the more
If every child had the opportunity to learn about, grow and cook food and understand the implications of food waste on the wider community, we believe they’d have the knowledge and tools to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives.
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By: Leslie L. De Jesus
