What not to do when teaching about eating disorders
Download
Download
Download
Full text for this resource is not available from the Research Repository.
Export
Yager, Zali 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2503-7374
(2007)
What not to do when teaching about eating disorders.
Home Economics Institute of Australia Journal, 14 (1).
pp. 28-33.
ISSN 1322-9974
Abstract
Australia has seen a dual increase in overweight and eating disorders in the past decade. In addition, a heavy focus on nutrition and obesity in the media has made school-aged young people very sensitive about issues of eating and body weight. The home economics and food technology curricula have a unique potential to address these issues through the development of accurate nutrition and weightcontrol knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours. There is now evidence to show that some attempts at the prevention of obesity and eating disorders may be ineffective, and some may be potentially harmful. This workshop will present a review of the literature on the prevention of eating disorders, and will outline evidence-based safe and effective approaches and activities to be used with students in secondary schools.
| Additional Information | Title of conference: Proceedings of the national biennial conference of the Home Economics Institute of Australia: Horizons in Home Economics |
| Item type | Article |
| URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/22420 |
| Official URL | http://www.heia.com.au/images/Journal14/JHEIA14-1-... |
| Subjects | Historical > FOR Classification > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy Historical > FOR Classification > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > College of Education |
| Keywords | nutrition education, eating disorders, lesson ideas, prevention |
| Download/View statistics | View download statistics for this item |
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)