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University of Ulster Software gets Healthy Eating Message Across to Kids
June 24, 2002Getting kids to eat healthily and learn about nutrition can be fun - thanks to a new interactive computer package produced by the University of Ulster.
Dish It Up, the CD ROM which is being launched at the University's Coleraine campus today, aims to promote nutrition and healthy eating amongst young people in a positive and exciting way.
The interactive programme will be distributed to secondary school teachers in the UK, free of charge, and is the first major step to get children thinking about their eating behaviours.
Professor of Nutrition at the University of Ulster, Barbara Livingstone said: "The diets of children in this part of the world are, on average, very poor, with too much refined, processed and fatty foods being eaten.
"The number of children in the UK who are classified as overweight or obese is on the increase. This is a very worrying trend since obese children, and especially obese teenagers, are more likely to become obese adults.
"In addition, there is little educational material available to schools to help them make young people aware of the importance of diet and health.
"This package is designed to make kids think about healthy eating in a positive way. There are no "bad foods" or rules laid down. It allows them to see the effects of the foods they are eating and how changes could be made.
"The major focus of this CD-ROM is on balance and variety, the words "good" and "bad", "healthy" and "unhealthy", are not featured. Unlike previous nutrition education programmes that have gone before, Dish It Up provides information in a non-prescriptive, non-preachy way, in order to encourage young people to think for themselves and to look critically at their attitudes to food and associated lifestyle choices."
Dr Michelle McKinley, Research Officer, added: "During our research it became apparent that warning young people about the dangers of developing heart disease and cancer in 40 years time because of poor dietary habits would not motivate 11-12 year-olds to change their ways.
"Dish It Up, aims to motivate young people to improve their eating habits by emphasizing things that are relevant to them here and now, for example, how their diet will affect their performance in sport and how they look and feel."
"Pupils from throughout the UK have had a major input into this package and have been consulted at every stage of development. The results to date have been very encouraging, there has been a very enthusiastic response from schools and we are confident that this material is personally relevant as well as entertaining, positive and motivating."
Ulster, University of
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