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Home Economics

Year 10

Overnutrition

 

Definition

Over-nutrition means either too many calories or the wrong types of calories such as saturated fats or highly processed sugar that lead to obesity, vascular diseases, etc. Many developed countries eg Europe, North America and Australia have over- nutrition problems.

 

Persuasive Writing:

Just to refresh your memories, here are some hints about persuasive essay writing.

 

     The Five Paragraph Essay

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/pers.html

 

Search Terms:

 

Fat kids

Childhood obesity

Overnutrition in children

Overweight kids

Overweight children

Advertising and children

Media and children

Junk food and children

Junk food advertising

Fast food advertising

Fast food and children

 

 

 

Online Databases

Online Encyclopaedia: Britannica Online.

The Britannica is an excellent source for information providing a foundation for your knowledge. The Britannica also has magazine and journal articles.

Electric Library will give you access to full text magazine articles.
You will need a password so ask the Library Staff or help yourself
to a brochure at the front desk.

 

 

 

 

 

Internet Sites:

Pressure Builds Over Fat Children

http://www.bandt.com.au/news/17/0c018b17.asp

 

 

Quantum - Fat Kids (Australian site)

http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/s203808.htm#transcript

 

Childhood Obesity

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/obesity.html

 

Schools Offer Fat Kids Slim Hope

http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues318.shtml

 

 

Children and Weight: The Dilemmas

http://www.bodypositive.com/childwt.htm

 

 

Causes and Management of Childhood Obesity: Part 1
 http://health.iafrica.com/dietonline/women/fatchildren1.htm

 

Childhood Obesity

http://www.parliament.uk/post/pn205.pdf

 

 

Childhood Obesity: A Lurking Health Risk

http://www.nisbett.com/news/h-news14.htm

 

Concept map:

Print a copy of this off, and fill in the details in order to organise your persuasive essay.