Health: Nutrition Detectives
Before the food companies started removing hydrogenated oils from foods, Dr. Katz (from the Yale University School of Medicine) taught us it was something to avoid. His Nutrition Detectives curriculum (something we completed in a day), convinced our then-six-year-old peanut butter & jelly addict to switch from Jif to an all-natural peanut butter. Without any nagging on my part! How's that for easy?
Here is the program description straight from the Nutrition Detectives site:
Drs. David and Catherine Katz are pleased to share their Nutrition Detectives program.
NUTRITION DETECTIVES® "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices"
Nutrition Detectives is an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices." They learn how to read food labels, detect marketing deceptions while simultaneously learning to identify and subsequently choose healthy foods. The program has been taught in schools throughout the country and data are currently being collected in Independence Missouri. There is opportunity to disseminate the program using a 'train-the-trainer' model, in which high school students are trained to teach younger students. The program is novel, creative, engaging, and efficient, imparting crucial information in minimal time.
By registering you will have free access to the following:
- Nutrition Detectives Slide Show [PowerPoint]
- Teacher's Manual/Curriculum Guide [45-page PDF]
- Children's Questionnaire [6-page PDF]
- Parent Intro Letter
- Parent Follow-up Letter
- Evaluation form for Nutrition Detectives
We are asking you to register so that we may track how many people/schools/organizations are using this program. It will also allow us to determine how effective the program was at your home, school or organization. If you do not want us to contact you, please check off the "Do not contact me" box below.
p.s. from Lori : I haven't gotten the first bit of spam from them, and have used the site over the past two years.
