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Nutrition and Health Student Resource

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PEP-Trillium-listed

Authors: Carole Booth, Jennifer Burke, Michelyn Gallant, Judy Schonberger
Copyright: 2014
ISBN: 9781926966441
Format: Hard Cover, 400 PP, 8 x 10
Price: $65.00

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Approved for Ontario’s Trillium List*

The Nutrition and Health Student Resource provides students with opportunities to explore, research, communicate about and reflect on Canadian and global issues related to nutrition and health. It includes

Multiple opportunities for students to develop and apply research and inquiry skills by:
• investigating topics and exploring real-world examples of Canadians who work in the industry
• processing information (problem solving, decision making and analysis) through critical thinking articles and a cumulative research project
• communicating about and reflecting upon their knowledge and understanding

Engaging and accessible topics with real Canadian industry examples, statistics and profiles such as:
• how to ensure and enhance food and kitchen safety
• following and adapting recipes
• the essential role nutrition plays in overall health, including how nutrients function in the body
• how and why nutritional needs change
• eating patterns and trends
• issues related to achieving and maintaining food security
• factors that affect sustainable food production and supply in Canada and around the world

*The Trillium List
The Trillium List contains the titles of those textbooks approved by the Minister of Education for use in Ontario schools. The textbooks named on the Trillium List have been subjected to a rigorous evaluation in accordance with the criteria specified in the policy document Guidelines for Approval of Textbooks.

Author Team

Pedagogical consultant

Jane Witte, Western University

Student Resource Authors

Carole Booth, retired, Peel District School Board

Jennifer Burke, Halton District School Board

Michelyn Gallant, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board

Judy Schonberger, Grand Erie District School Board

This Student Resource is designed to be used with Nutrition and Health Teacher Resource. 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Safety and Food Preparation in the Kitchen

Part 1: Nutrition and Wellness

Chapter 1: Nutrients and Health
Chapter 2: Focus on Food Guides
Chapter 3: Finding Energy Balance
Chapter 4: Understanding Nutritional Status

Part 2: Healthy Eating for Life

Chapter 5: Nutrition through the Lifespan
Chapter 6: Thinking about Food Trends
Chapter 7: Diet and Disease

Part 3: Feeding Canada and the World

Chapter 8: Food Production and Supply
Chapter 9: Food Security
Chapter 10: Towards a Sustainable Food Supply

Nutrition and Health was developed to fully meet the curriculum expectations of the Family Studies courses Nutrition and Health, Grade 12—College Preparation (HFA4C) and Nutrition and Health, Grade 12—University Preparation (HFA4U) of the 2013 Ontario Curriculum for Social Sciences and Humanities.
It addresses all curriculum strands for:

A: Research and Inquiry Skills
B: Nutrition and Health
C: Eating Patterns and Trends
D: Local and Global Issues
E: Food-preparation Skills

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  • Curriculum correlation for Nutrition and Health, Grade 12—College Preparation (HFA4C)
  • Curriculum correlation for Nutrition and Health, Grade 12—University Preparation (HFA4U)
  • BC curriculum correlation: Foods and Nutrition Grade 10
  • BC curriculum correlation: Foods and Nutrition Grade 11
  • BC curriculum correlation: Foods and Nutrition Grade 11
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