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General Education to Health
Thursday, June 19th

Coordinator: Johanna Maria Catharina Blom
Location: Chamber of Commerce, via Ganaceto 34, Modena
Room: Sala Leonelli
Language: English

Simultaneous translation available: Italiano


If we want a healthy future, we need healthy children. And in order to have healthy children, they need to eat the right quantity and quality of food. In the same way, if we want a sustainable future, we need to grow a new generation of consumers that are more conscious of their choices. However, most children and their parents, as well as consumers in general, lack information and education about nutrition. There is no better place to start educating our future adults than school. The following modules stress the relation between health, education and nutrition by making more conscious choices.

14.30 - 16.45 pm

This block of short presentations is organized around 3 lines: Oral presentations will be 12 minutes each and will be followed at the end of each block by a short discussion.

* Growing is knowing and knowing is growing.
Initiatives involving different age groups. When knowledge helps the young to grow into healthy adults, while knowledge at an older age may ensure healthy aging.
Participants:

  • Green [pdf 11KB], Cultivating the Future: the promise of a children’s food garden
  • McKinnon [pdf 9KB], The school garden as an arena for ecological understanding and reconnection with nature   
  • Caroli [pdf 11KB], Experience of Azienda USL Modena
  • De Vreese Luc, Belloi L., Bellei CG, Nutrition and cognitive decline in the Elderly
  • Cochrane [pdf 11KB], Science + Ar t= holistic thinking: an unorthodox approach to creating holistic thinkers in in the Bachelor of Ecological Agriculture course offered through Charles Sturt University, Australia

* As the world turns.
Experiences from different continents and different realities.
Participants:

  • Pawan [pdf 9KB], Life impregnation in dead school participation in learning and research in India
  • Ostrom [pdf 14KB], Ekologik – organic food as a tool for education for sustainable development in school
  • Piamonte [pdf 16KB], Development of an education strategy for Organic – biodynamic agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean

* A spoonful of organic …
Experiences from different public catering settings (hospitals, schools etc.)
Participants:

  • Lesi [pdf 14KB], Hospital catering services project and promotion of health
  • Bertino, Organic foor in school canteens in Italy
  • Blom [pdf 82 KB], JMC and Bellei GC, Mindful Nutrition, Playful Education

Moderator: Dr. Joan M.C. Blom


Poster session:

Stallard
[pdf 10KB], HDRA/Garden Organic’s International Organic Information Service   
Martignani [pdf 17KB], If you are fit, You win
Frammartino [pdf 35KB],INFOAGRO Agricultural and Food.

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