The Nutri-Advice Kiosk In Canada

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Obesity is a health condition which when an individual has excess body fat that has accumulated which may lead to many negative effects for the individual health. Nowadays obesity has been a major topic in the health industry. Health care professionals use a standardized formula Body Mass Index (BMI) by using the individual weight in kilograms over height in Meter Square. This helps to help determine whether the individual has reached or surpass the obese category (WHO, 2016). The industry has been trying to focus on giving knowledge and techniques to help reduce the obesity rate in children. Focusing in the kind of food and amount of food intake during school hours has been a technique the government has been trying to target to see positive …show more content…

For students to be living a healthier lifestyles they need knowledge on the right tips, tools to apply the knowledge into their lives. Teaching or having workshops about nutrition, physical activity is a technique which could help students gain knowledge. Many programs have been created to try to target children about healthy living. Programs such as the Nutri-Advice kiosks is a program that was created in Quebec. Quebec is one of the provinces in Canada that had a major impact in trying to improve children health by using a program such as Nutri-Advice. The Nutri-Advice programs helps to give children’s nutritional skills, increase their knowledge and the ability to apply the knowledge about food choices. Public schools cafeterias also use this guide to help create healthy food variations to serve the students. (He & Beynon, 2006). When increasing a child knowledge about any subject, it helps the child feel more confident in the choices they are taking in a day to day basis. This program was very successful, it showed potential to improve the food choices. In addition, the children body mass decreased significantly. This positive decrease in body mass than decreases the risk of having medical conditions such as Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, arthritis and cancer. This program also demonstrated that children instantly started to eat less cheese, pastry, desserts, starchy food and dairy. The children were more engaged in making healthier choices such as fruits and vegetables. The engagement of programs in Canada is a good momentum to apply restrictions on the kind of food being served in public schools cafeterias throughout

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