Report Presentation

Good morning, ladies and gentleman,

Welcome to changing the scene: Improving the School Nutrition Environment. Thank you for coming to important presentation. I will take questions at the end of the presentation.

The reality is _our children are facing a health crisi. Our school have to important role to play in helping address the crisis.

There are some alarming trends that are arming our children’s health and their ability to learn and do well in school. 

For example:

Teenagers today drink twice as much carbonated soda as milk.

Too many children are physically inactive

The percentage of young people who are overweight has more than doubled since 1970. Childhood obesity is recognized as a national epidemic.

As many as 3000 children have Type 2 diabetes, a type of diabetes that was once almost entirely limited to adults.

If we are going to turn these negative trends around, we must take action to improve the school  nutrition environment. Schools are the perfect place to create an environment for children where healthy lifestyle are consistently reinforced, and easy to learn and adopt. We need your help to make our school a place where students can learn about, and participate in healthy eating and physical activity.

What is healthy school nutrition environment?

A healthy school nutrition environment is one where nutrition and physical activity are taught and supported in the classroom, the dining room and throughout the school. It’s time to act. Changes need to be  made to improve the nutrition environment in our schools. We need to take action now to create a healthier  future for our children.

That was the end of my presentation. I will be happy to take any answer you have.

Adapted from: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/resources/script.pdf

EXERCISES

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