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The Healthy Food Slide Rule: Foods In Appropriate Amounts For Healthy, Active Families, Linda Gossett, Barbara Abo, Elaine M. Long
The Healthy Food Slide Rule: Foods In Appropriate Amounts For Healthy, Active Families, Linda Gossett, Barbara Abo, Elaine M. Long
Elaine M. Long
Presentation given at the SNE 2010 Annual Conference Proceedings - 43rd Annual Conference, Child Nutrition: Action Today for a Healthy Tomorrow and abstract published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Volume 42, Issue 4, Supplement 1, July-August 2010, Pages S129-S130. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2010.03.155
The Healthy Food Slide Rule (Hfsr): A Nutrition Education Tool For Children, Elaine M. Long, Uwe Reischl, Barbara B. Abo
The Healthy Food Slide Rule (Hfsr): A Nutrition Education Tool For Children, Elaine M. Long, Uwe Reischl, Barbara B. Abo
Elaine M. Long
The Healthy Food Slide Rule (HFSR) is a new educational tool designed specifically for use by school children in grades 4-6. The HFSR teaches the importance of including the 5 food groups and the importance of complying with appropriate portion sizes as presented in MyPyramid.1, 2 The portion size information included in the HFSR combines the healthy eating and physical activity messages offered by MyPyramid for Kids.3, 4 The new tool can be easily incorporated into existing math lessons (weights, measures, and fractions), into language arts lessons, or into science lessons.5