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Be a Healthy Eater 1

2. Personal Development and Healthy Living Learning objectives：
Learn to be self-disciplined, and develop healthy eating habits
Able to reflect on their own eating habits and make improvements
Values and attitudes ：Self-discipline, perseverance, self-
reflection 2

3. Our Eating Habits Who has breakfast first before going to
school every day? What do you eat usually?
Has anyone gone to school with an empty
stomach?
What eating habits are beneficial to
health?
Who can maintain these good eating habits?
Please share your experience.
Why can’t you maintain these good eating
habits? Share the difficulties you
encountered.
Students may encounter many difficulties when practising healthy eating habits. It is thus important to learn to be self-disciplined and develop good eating habits. 3

4. Breakfast Struggle Scenario：
Every day Meifang eats breakfast with her mother before going to school, but this week her mother is on a business trip. Before she left, she asks her to eat nutritious breakfast every day. At first Meifang is very self-disciplined, choosing mainly porridge, noodles, eggs and milk for breakfast ... Three days later, Meifang meets a classmate asking her to go to a fast food shop to eat French fries. It is a rare opportunity to eat delicious French fries, but she remembers her mother and teacher have asked her to develop healthy eating habits by avoiding fried and high-fat food…
She is struggling about what she should do… 4

5. Breakfast Struggle Approach 1:
Meifang chooses to eat tasty French fries at the fast food shop with the classmate, thinking that when her mother asks her what breakfast she eats, she could answer, “I have eaten sandwiches, milk, etc.”
What does that show about
her values?
Is this approach problematic?
In order to satisfy her desire, Meifang
lied to her mother. Is it worthwhile?
Are there better ways to handle it? 5

6. Breakfast Struggle Approach 2:
Meifang decided to eat French fries with her friends, only telling her mother the truth when asked by her.
What does this tell about her values?
Is this approach problematic? What needs improvement? What is worth learning? 6

7. Breakfast Struggle
Role-play： If you were Meifang’s mother, what would you want Meifang to do? Express her mother’s feeling.
Meifang, I understand that you __________________________________________________
Is there difference between Meifang’s mother’s wish and Meifang’s actual behavior?
Why is there such a difference? 7

8. Breakfast Struggle Do you have similar struggles?
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Breakfast Struggle
Do you have similar struggles?
What is your biggest struggle?
Given that you know that some food should
be eaten regularly, and some food should be
avoided, why do you sometimes have
difficulty to do so?
What are the difficulties?
How do you overcome? 8

9. conclusion Parents generally attach great importance
to the family's health, but less often able
to supervise their children's eating habits.
There are also too many temptations in
society such as a great many choices of
snack, and peer influence, so students
should be disciplined in their diet. NO 9

10. Eating Crisis　
Teachers read a news story, asking students to listen carefully.
Overeating 200-pound boy suffers a stroke  
A 14-year-old obese boy who weighs two
hundred pounds suffers from a mild stroke because
of overeating frequently. Eating too often fast food and lunch
boxes cause an increase in his weight, blood
pressure and cholesterol levels. The boy’s left face
once had paralysis and convulsions. The doctor
advised him to change his diet and lifestyle to
prevent suffering from stroke again.
(Source: Adapted from an online news report in April, 2010)
Is your eating habit similar to that of the boy in the news above?
Do you think your eating habit healthy?
Would you change your eating habits for your own health? 10

11. Eating Crisis What do you feel when hearing the report?
Do you think obesity is a problem? Why?
Would you change your eating habits for your health’s sake?
If you think your eating habit is unhealthy, why don’t you change?
What price do you have to pay to develop healthy eating habits?
What attitude should you adopt to develop good eating habits? 11

12. conclusion Students wishing to develop good eating
habits may have to pay a price, for example,
rejecting the invitation from peers,
giving up personal preferences, etc.,
and the perseverance and self-discipline
to achieve it. 12

13. Be a Healthy Eater Do you think your eating habit healthy?
What area of your eating habits needs
improvement?
My healthy eating actions-----Set three concrete goals for improvement yourself
____________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________ 13

14. Be a Healthy Eater Set concrete goals for improvement (example)
Find the area that needs improvement
1. no breakfast-
eating habit
2.always eat
snacks
3. eat unhealthy
food to eat,
such as ice-
cream, coke
Set concrete and feasible goals：
1. eat nutritious
breakfast every day
2. eat fewer snacks
3. eat healthy snacks,
such as yogurt, and
drink coke once a
week only 14

15. Be a Healthy Eater Students, work hard to kick the bad habits.
"Three meals should be balanced diets,
fruit and vegetables are everyday-have,
junk snacks should be less looked at,
happiness and health will be possessed."
Students, work hard to kick the bad habits. 15

16. conclusion
Students set specific improvement goals for their eating habits and keep practicing in daily life. The good habits developed are beneficial to whole-person development. 16

17. summary
Healthy eating habits are essential for whole-person health, but the eating habit of many people is far from satisfactory. Of course, changing their eating behavior presents a lot of difficulties, but even though students cannot change their habits overnight, they should still set some goals for themselves. Daily self-discipline and perseverance help develop good eating habits, and facilitate whole-person development. 17

18. Extended student activities
Healthy Eating Action Scheme
Students can record their weekly food intake with
drawings or text to see if they can become “healthy eating experts”.
Date
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Snack
Parent’s comment 18

19. Extended student activities
Healthy Eating Action Scheme
Gentle reminder:
Students should choose food and drinks carefully, in accordance with the “Healthy Eating Food Pyramid” principles.
(You may refer to the following website: for the “Eat Smart! Follow the Pyramid” pamphlet in Printed Materials.)
Self-evaluation:
After one week, I think I can/cannot become a “Healthy Eating Expert”. In order to become a “Healthy Eating Expert”, I would :_______________________________________________ 19

20. Extended student activities
Healthy Eating Action Scheme
Parents are welcome to join the parent-child activity “Healthy Snacks Taste Better” organised by the Parents Association to cook healthy food with their children. Parents can write down the cooking methods and materials, take photos of the production process and the finished products for the school to display on the bulletin board to share the joy with everyone and fill the school with "healthy eating" atmosphere . 20