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Dealing with Eating Disorders (2020)
Those with eating disorders have an unhealthy relationship with the food they eat; the disorders are often connected to issues of fitness and body image. Dealing with Eating Disorders explores what these disorders are like, how they affect people's lives, and today's best treatment options.
Eating Disorders (2018)
This encyclopedia offers a variety of resources for readers interested in learning more about eating disorders, including hundreds of reference entries, interviews, scholarly debates, and case studies.
Food safety (2016)
This book is a comprehensive guide featuring food safety tips on handling, hygiene and contamination. The book also explains symptoms, causes and labelling information in relation to food allergies, additives and intolerances. You are what you eat - ensure you eat food in the knowledge it is safe.
Websites - Promote healthy eating
Australian Guide to Health Eating
The Australian guide to healthy eating is a food selection guide which visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day.
Crunch&Sip
Participating in a daily Crunch&Sip break provides an opportunity for children to drink water and eat an extra serve of vegetables or fruit to support good health and to help with learning and concentration in the classroom.
Food Bank - Nom!
Great dishes can be made by anyone – not just Michelin Star chefs. We all have the potential to create great things – and nom! is here to help you unleash that potential. Bringing nutrition education and cooking programs to Western Australia – it’s something we’ve been doing for a little while now.
Get up and grow - Director/coordinator handbook
This Get Up & Grow booklet provides advice on early childhood healthy eating and physical activity, how to develop nutrition and physical activity policies and ways to support and encourage staff, carers and families.
Get up and grow - Staff and carer handbook
This Get Up & Grow booklet is for child health and early childhood professionals. It provides advice about child nutrition and physical activity.
Get up and grow booklet - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander handbook
This Get Up & Grow booklet is for people who care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. It provides advice on childhood nutrition and physical activity.
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Eating habits are instilled from a young age, so by providing nutritious foods and drinks, you can help children establish positive eating behaviours early.
Nutrition Australia
Inspiring healthy eating
Phenomenom! - ABC Education
This collection contains curriculum-aligned episodes, lesson plans and activities, in the name of discovering things that food can do.
WASPHA - Food and Nutrition
Lots of useful resources to promote health eating.
Websites - Allergies
Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia
Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia (A&AA) is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation. Our purpose is to listen, guide and educate Australians living with allergic disease.
Allergy Aware
The Allergy Aware website is a resource hub that aims to provide people working in schools, children’s education and care services and camps, as well as parents, health professionals and students, with information and practical resources to manage severe allergies in the school and children’s education and care settings.
Food allergens
Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia
Food allergies in schools
Western Australia. Department of Education.
Food allergy
Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia
Books
Food allergy (2013)
Many of us dislike certain foods and food can sometimes make us feel unwell, but only two percent of people have a real food allergy. This book will help you understand what a food allergy is and how it affects people.
Food safety (2016)
This book is a comprehensive guide featuring food safety tips on handling, hygiene and contamination. The book also explains symptoms, causes and labelling information in relation to food allergies, additives and intolerances. You are what you eat - ensure you eat food in the knowledge it is safe.
Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child (2014)
HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION FOR THE YOUNG CHILD, 9th Edition, covers contemporary health, safety, and nutrition needs of infant through school-age children--and guides teachers in implementing effective classroom practices--in one comprehensive, full-color volume.
Kids food health 3 (2001)
In this book the authors aim to guide parents in establishing healthy eating habits that their children will carry into adulthood
Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education (2016)
This book emphasizes healthy development, including environmental health and safety, active supervision, and how issues surrounding safety, nutrition, health, child maltreatment, and mental and emotional health can affect brain development.
Junior Fiction
Allergy Possible!
Allergy Possible! is a picture book that spreads awareness about what it's like to be a child living with life-threatening anaphylaxis and the story is very relatable for children who have life-threatening allergies. It's also the perfect book for caregivers, teachers, family members and friends. Learning about anaphylaxis is as important as learning the Heimlich Maneuver or CPR. Every child and adult should be aware of anaphylaxis and how serious it is, so that they can potentially help to save a life.
Ben & Izzy's story : living with anaphylaxis
Using the children's real first-person testimonies creates an intimate and direct tone that help us to empathise with the people's differences. Both circumstances are easily relatable to children; they talk about school, family, friends, holidays and birthday parties.
My healthy tummy
Children's picture book which encourages early food and nutrition literacy skills.
Pete the peanut
An introductory resource for kids of all ages to read with their parents, families, teachers, carers or specialists. A clear reminder that allergies are REAL. Reactions are REAL. Each of us is at different stages and plays various roles along the allergy journey, a journey nobody processes in precisely the same way.
When we are hungry
Children's picture book which encourages early food and nutrition literacy skills.
Dealing with Eating Disorders (2020)
Those with eating disorders have an unhealthy relationship with the food they eat; the disorders are often connected to issues of fitness and body image. Dealing with Eating Disorders explores what these disorders are like, how they affect people's lives, and today's best treatment options.
Eating Disorders (2018)
This encyclopedia offers a variety of resources for readers interested in learning more about eating disorders, including hundreds of reference entries, interviews, scholarly debates, and case studies.
Food safety (2016)
This book is a comprehensive guide featuring food safety tips on handling, hygiene and contamination. The book also explains symptoms, causes and labelling information in relation to food allergies, additives and intolerances. You are what you eat - ensure you eat food in the knowledge it is safe.
Food allergy (2013)
Many of us dislike certain foods and food can sometimes make us feel unwell, but only two percent of people have a real food allergy. This book will help you understand what a food allergy is and how it affects people.
Food safety (2016)
This book is a comprehensive guide featuring food safety tips on handling, hygiene and contamination. The book also explains symptoms, causes and labelling information in relation to food allergies, additives and intolerances. You are what you eat - ensure you eat food in the knowledge it is safe.
Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child (2014)
HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION FOR THE YOUNG CHILD, 9th Edition, covers contemporary health, safety, and nutrition needs of infant through school-age children--and guides teachers in implementing effective classroom practices--in one comprehensive, full-color volume.
Healthy cooking for children : 52 brilliant ideas to dump the junk (2006)
"With the help of these 52 ideas, you can turn your moaning monsters into merry munchers, without tears, trauma or tea-time tantrums. Help your kids to ditch the junk and make healthy food family fun."
Kids food health 3 (2001)
In this book the authors aim to guide parents in establishing healthy eating habits that their children will carry into adulthood
Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education (2016)
This book emphasizes healthy development, including environmental health and safety, active supervision, and how issues surrounding safety, nutrition, health, child maltreatment, and mental and emotional health can affect brain development.
Allergy Possible!
Allergy Possible! is a picture book that spreads awareness about what it's like to be a child living with life-threatening anaphylaxis and the story is very relatable for children who have life-threatening allergies. It's also the perfect book for caregivers, teachers, family members and friends. Learning about anaphylaxis is as important as learning the Heimlich Maneuver or CPR. Every child and adult should be aware of anaphylaxis and how serious it is, so that they can potentially help to save a life.
Ben & Izzy's story : living with anaphylaxis
Using the children's real first-person testimonies creates an intimate and direct tone that help us to empathise with the people's differences. Both circumstances are easily relatable to children; they talk about school, family, friends, holidays and birthday parties.
My healthy tummy
Children's picture book which encourages early food and nutrition literacy skills.
Pete the peanut
An introductory resource for kids of all ages to read with their parents, families, teachers, carers or specialists. A clear reminder that allergies are REAL. Reactions are REAL. Each of us is at different stages and plays various roles along the allergy journey, a journey nobody processes in precisely the same way.
When we are hungry
Children's picture book which encourages early food and nutrition literacy skills.