Topic: My Healthy Plate
Web Resource: Health Promotion Board http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/health-article/HPB064355
Explanation:
The Health Promotion Board recently changed one of the nutritional tool that was commonly used. Previously, we were using the Healthy Diet Pyramid where all Nutritionist and Home Economists are familiar of. Thus, I would like to recommend the use of HPB website for students to know and understand better about this new nutritional tool called "My Healthy Plate".
The website has various links which allows the ease of assess for students. It provides a more in-depth information as compared to the "Food and Consumer Education" textbook.
These information are important and useful for students. Be it for their daily life or when they are tested in examinations. They will be able to comprehend the questions better as they know these information.
Health Promotion Board also provides additional link for everyone to assess. For instance, it provides us with more information on what "My Healthy Plate" mean by 'Fill half your plate with fruit and vegetables'. It teaches us what nutrients does fruits and vegetables, the nutritional advantages of consuming fruit and vegetables in our diet.
Referring to the Health Promotion Board website is the best, if not the best. As it is what we base our syllabus on. Where we abstract these important information from. Thus it has extremely reliable information for our students to look at and learn from.
Furthermore, students are more interested to actually assess this websites then referring to the textbooks as it may seem boring to them. Exposing them to the HPB website can also help students to explore the website. As they may be able to find more information or nutritional tools they can use to help them in their subject. Which will help them when they are doing their coursework when they are in their upper secondary years.
Coursework
Web Resource: Nutrition.gov http://www.nutrition.gov/
Explanation:
Nutrition.gov is a website base in USA. It is somewhat similar to our Singapore's Health Promotion Board website. However, it is still different as the statistics and information are base on what is tested in USA. They have a variety of Nutritional Tools for us to use that is somewhat similar to what HPB has.
Additionally, they provide many information and links to different website that will aid in student's learning.
I find this website useful for students because when students are doing coursework, they will need many different websites for them to refer to. They will be able to understand and digest this information better as they can see it in different perspective. They will also be able to better analyze the information they have found and make comparisons.
To state an example, there is this SuperTracker where I would recommend students to use to see the differences between what American and Singapore guidelines are. Where they will be able to give more constructive feedback or information for their targeted personnel in their coursework.
As you can see from above there are various tools from'Food Tracker' to Recipe Analyzer. This website provides a variety of tools for students to use and for them to learn better.
Thus I feel that it is important for students to look at different nutrition websites in different country to enrich themselves and be able to know the differences of the different countries websites for them to write their coursework better. However it is also important for students to keep in mind that these are just references to enhance their knowledge. They should still always give their feedback and suggestions base on the Singapore Health Promotion Board.
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