Project Coordinators:
Giulia Occhini
E-mail address:
npo@sism.org
Project discription:
“Elementari Alimentari” is a project aimed to make awareness of the importance of a healthy life style as primary prevention of children obesity.
First of all the medical student study the principles of nutrition and the correct way to approach a child, then they can bring the health education message into the schools, not to act only on the child but also on the environment the child lives in. In fact, the project wants to involve also parents and teachers to make them promoters of children’ correct life style.
Goals:
For children:
through meetings with students
- learn main information about nutrition through games;
- pay attention on what they eat through a diary.
For teachers:
through meetings with students
- learn main information about nutrition and physical activities;
- learn how to do the follow up of the project and to become promoters of healthy life style.
For parents:
through meetings with students
- learn main information about nutrition to help children in their daily diet;
- learn how to recognise relational/social problems in their children.
For students:
through meetings with nutrionist and psychologist
- learn information about nutrition, life styles, social problems of children;
- learn how to approach a child.
Status:
Status: National Project
It was started in 2009.
It is organized by more or less four local committees every year.
It is still active.
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