Healthy eating patterns in childhood and adolescence promote optimal childhood- health, growth, and intellectual development. It can prevent immediate health problems such as iron deficiency anemia, obesity; eating disorders etc. School health programs can help the children to attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the skills, social support and environmental reinforcement. They need to adopt long-term healthy eating behaviors. School based programs can play an important role in promoting lifelong healthy eating.
As the part of teaching and learning process IVth and Vth standard students conducted “HEALTHY FOOD EXHIBITION”. Students were grouped into three groups. Group-A made delicious chaat, Group-B made healthy sandwiches and Group-C made fresh fruit salad. All of them made food in the class with lots of enjoyment and it was displayed in our corridor. Mrs.Dhani Rejeendran and Mrs. Saranya Vinesh was in charge of this program.
