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This month's Health and Nutrition page features three web-articles
that highlight the effects of role modeling on child health behavior.
From these articles we can clearly see how important it is for students
to be surrounded by adults who demonstrate positive health habits.
It comes as no surprise to health and physical educators that children
follow the lead of adult role models in their lives but at times
we may forget how powerful role modeling can be as a teaching
method in itself.
Do you show up to class with coffee or a Coke in hand and then
joke about your "need" for caffeine (a drug) to merely
wake up and start your day? Do you stand by the side of the
track holding the clipboard while your students run, jog, and walk
the track? Have you ever been "caught"at the grocery
store with a cart load of chips, pop, fatty foods or worse?
On the other hand, have your students ever "caught" you
at the local pool swimming with your family? Have they ever
ridden past you waving from the window of their mom's car while
you were out for a bike ride?
These latter experiences go a long way to reinforcing the concepts
we teach in class. Students and parents alike go away thinking
that we not only teach and preach health but live it as well.
It really is true that what we do speaks so much louder than what
we say.
Andy Jenkins
Health and Fitness Section Editor
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Parent’s
Eating Habits Affect Kids
Recent research has demonstrated what many health teachers already
knew, "Parents who practice what they preach in terms of good
eating habits may be more likely to have children who also eat well
than parents who encourage their children to eat well but do not
lead by example, according to new study results."
Young Kids Now Fixate on Weight
According to an article on Health Central.com website. “Obsessive,
irrational fears of getting fat have pushed millions of teen-age
girls into unnatural eating and exercising patterns to make themselves
thinner and thinner.” It may be their parents' obsessions
about diet, body image that are to blame.
Got Milk?
The National Institute of Child
Health and Development sponsors an education program titled,
Milk Matters
that includes general information, lactose intolerance, information
on teens and milk,and bone health.
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