Calm down with the calorie counting, no sane dietician would teach that stuff to kids who aren’t athletes that already need to keep a specific weight, a PE teacher shouldn’t do it either. The benefits of a varied diet and the importance of exercising that’s one thing, weight control means is another.
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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 week agoAs someone who felt discouraged from participating in PE because of teachers forcing activities I didn’t like, ended up hating exercising, and now getting back in shape and trying to find active hobbies so I have a good physical activity level; thank you, please keep it up.
Also, if you’re able to please can you do two lessons on healthy eating with an activity for students to make / use a calorie counter and then the following lesson present the calories and and the macros of what they ate.
I would have really appreciated knowing that earlier on in life so when I left home and had full control over what I ate I would have eaten better and avoided putting on so much weight.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I understand your point and I think it’s a difficult subject to navigate with teens. Science-based education is important to offset misinformation .
I think it’s tremendously valuable to understand what macros and calories mean, and where they come from in the diet. There’s a global obesity epidemic and there’s significant incentives for people in the health/fitness/weight management industry to muddy the waters with crash, fad, or various unhealthy diets, “cleanses”, and “supplements”. And that’s before we get to the food product industry of Nestle et al.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
My girlfriend is a dietician and she would be the first one to tell you that the obsession with macros and calories is unhealthy and teaching that to teens would just increase the number of dietary issues in their population.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I didn’t say “teach the kids to count calories”. I said “teach the kids to understand where the calories come from”. It needs to be a constructive conversation about, like you said, diversifying the food they eat and fuelling their bodies appropriately. Understanding things like when iced coffees have the calories of a cheeseburger.
There’s certainly a lot of psychological factors that go into deciding whether a client can handle calorie counting, but refusing to provide this information as part of a nutrition class enables charlatans to take advantage of ignorance, leading down a path of repeated failure.
Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How me lose weight if no count food?
body_rhythm@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
you’re a good person :) thank you for your work in shaping a generation of healthy people