Welcome to.. Planet Health

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Welcome to..Planet Health
By Jill Carter, M.A., Ed.M., Jean Wiecha, Ph.D,
Karen Peterson, D.Sc. and Steve Gortmaker, Ph.D
A project of the
Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition
and Physical Activity Harvard School of Public
Health
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Planet Health Introductory Workshop

• Agenda Topics
• Introductions
• Pyramid Power (ice breaker)
• What is Planet Health? (Presentation and
  Activity)
• Are you concerned about your students nutrition
  and physical activity habits? (Discussion)
• The Health of Young People Trends in Nutrition,
  Physical Activity, and Inactivity.
  (Presentation)
• Turning the Tables Why Schools Need to be Part
  of the Solution (Presentation)
• Planet Healths Educational Approach
  (Presentation)
• Planet Healths Nutrition and Physical Activity
  Messages (Activities)
• Using the Planet Health Curriculum (Planning
  Activity)

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Planet Health Demonstration Lessons

• Lesson 31 (Introductory Classroom Lesson, p. 103)
  Do You Make Space for Fitness and Nutrition?
• Lesson 33 (Language Arts, p. 143) Carbohydrates
  Energy Foods
• Lesson 34 (Language Arts, p. 159) The Language of
  Food
• Lesson 49 (Science, p. 327) Fat Functions
• Lesson 62 (Social Studies, p. 464) Impact of
  Technology
• Appendix D (p. 495) Charting TV Viewing Time
  Power Down
• Introduction to FitCheck (Physical Education, p.
  21)

Reprinted by permission, from J. Carter et al,
2001, Planet Health, (Champaign, IL Human
Kinetics), pages xix, 22, 23, 105, 117, 119, 129,
153, 163, 165, 335, 406, 464, 465, 472, 473,
475, 502, 503.
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Pyramid Power
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What is Planet Health?

• An interdisciplinary health curriculum for middle
  school students that teaches students about
  nutrition and physical activity.
• Builds skills and competencies in language arts,
  math, science, social studies and physical
  education.

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Planet Health Goals
Make Space for...
Fitness
AND
Nutrition
Keep Moving Be physically active daily or
nearly every day Limit screen time to no more
than two hours per day
Eat Well...

• Eat five or more fruits and veggies per day
• Eat fat in moderation

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Planet Health Overview

• Planet Health Goals
• Eat five or more fruits and vegetables each day.
• Eat fat in moderation.
• Be active every day or nearly every day.
• Limit your screen time to no more than 2 hours
  each day.

  Classroom Lessons
Physical Education Lessons
Student Self-Assessment Lesson
        30 Micro-Units 2 FitChecks  
     
  8 Social Studies Lessons
  8 Science Lessons
Power Down
8 Language Arts Lessons
  8 Math Lessons
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Do You Make Space for Fitness and
Nutrition? Lesson 31 Introduction Student
Self-Assessment
Student Self-Assessment
Activity 1
Class Graph Compare Planet Health messages to
class graphs What conclusions can students
formulate? What goals can the class
set? Brainstorm/Discuss What are the benefits of
a healthy diet and regular physical activity?
Activity 2
Repeat lesson at the end of the year!
Open-ended Question
Activity 3 or 4
Key Question
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Planet Health Goals
Make Space for...
Fitness
AND
Nutrition
Keep Moving Be physically active daily or
nearly every day Limit screen time to no more
than two hours per day
Eat Well...

• Eat five or more fruits and veggies per day
• Eat fat in moderation

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Are you concerned about your students nutrition
and physical activity habits?
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The Health of Young People

• Trends in Nutrition, Physical Activity, and
  Inactivity

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The Health of Young People
Fact
Fiction
                 
 
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Youth are at Risk!

• Trends in Nutrition
• Only 1 in 4 children eat two servings of fruits a
  day.
• Only 1 in 2 eats three servings of vegetables.
• 70 eat more saturated fat than experts
  recommend.
• Teenagers today drink twice as much soda as milk.
• SOURCES USDHHS. Healthy People 2010
• Cavadini C. et al. Arch Dis Child
  20008318-24 (based on USDA surveys)

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Youth are at Risk!

• Trends in Activity and Inactivity
• Approximately one third of American youth are not
  vigorously active on a regular basis.
• Participation in all types of physical activity
  declines strikingly as age or grade in school
  increases, especially in girls.
• TV use averages 2.2 to 3.5 hrs/day among older
  children and teens, but 30 watch 5 or more
  hrs/day
• SOURCES CDC, National Youth Risk Behavior
  Survey, 1999
• Wiecha et al. Ambul Pediatr. 2001 1244-251.

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Percentage of U.S. Children and Adolescents Who
Were Overweight
Youth are at Risk!
Trends in obesity...
95th percentile for BMI by age and sex based
on 2000 CDC BMI-for-age growth charts Data are
from 1963-65 for children 6-11 years of age and
from 1966-70 for adolescents 12-17 years of
age Source National Center for Health
Statistics
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Adults are at Risk!

• Diet and physical activity patterns together
  account for at least 300,000 deaths among adults
  in the U.S. each year only tobacco use
  contributes to more deaths.
• 61 of U.S. adults are overweight or obese
• 26 are obese

SOURCE USDHH. The Surgeon General's call to
action to prevent and decrease overweight and
obesity. http//www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obes
ity
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Environmental and Social Change Affect Health
Behavior

• More TV
• More car travel
• Fewer PE classes
• Fewer safe walking/bike routes
• Lower perception of safety

• More foods available everywhere
• More meals out with bigger meals
• More sugar-sweetened beverages
• Successful food advertising

Decreased Energy Expenditure
Increased Energy Intake
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What do TV viewing and soda consumption have to
do with it?
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SOURCE Dietz WH, Gortmaker SL. Pediatrics, 1985
75807-812. Gortmaker SL, Must A, Sobol AM,
Peterson K, Colditz GA, Dietz WH. Arch Pediatr
Adolesc Med, 1996150356-362.
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• Clhereype page title

Dietz WH, Gortmaker SL. Pediatrics, 1985
75807-812. Gortmaker SL, Must A, Sobol AM,
Peterson K, Colditz GA, Dietz WH. Arch Pediatr
Adolesc Med, 1996150356-362.
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Beverage Intake Among Adolescents Aged 11-18,
1965-1996
SOURCE Cavadini C. et al. Arch Dis Child
20008318-24 (based on USDA surveys)
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Turning the Tables Why schools need to be part
of the solution!
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Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living
Individual behaviors and choices
Environment
Policies

• Family
• School
• Community

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• FOOD CHOICE
• Vending machines
• Cafeteria
• Packed meals
• School Sales

• SCHOOL PROGRAMS
• PE Availability After School
• PE Frequency Recess
• PE Structure Sports

School Ein Eout

• CONSUMPTION
• Child Taste/preferences

• BEHAVIORS
• After school program
• Walk to School

Adapted from Dietz, W. and Gortmaker, S. Annu.
Rev. Public Health. 2001 22337-53.
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Why a School-Based Program?

• 90 of US Children attend school daily.
• School-based programs can prevent obesity.
• Healthy eating and adequate physical activity are
  a critical part of learning and achievement.

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Healthy Eating and Physical Activity are a
Critical Part of Leaning and Achievement

• Brain development and function require an
  adequate supply of nutrients.
• Eating Breakfast increases academic test scores,
  daily attendance, concentration, and class
  participation.
• Children learn through movement.
• Physical activity increases alertness.
• Schools that offer intensive physical activity
  programs see no negative effects on standardized
  academic achievement scores even when time for
  physical education is taken from the academic day

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A caveat Strategies must be compatible with
the primary educational aims of schools!
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Why This Program?

• Planet Health has been evaluated and shown to be
  effective in a scientific study.
• It improves student knowledge of nutrition and
  physical activity.
• It reduces T.V. viewing time in both boys and
  girls.
• It increases fruits and vegetable consumption in
  girls.
• It prevents obesity in girls.
• Gortmaker et al. Arch. of Ped and Adol.
  Med.,1999 153409-418.

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Lets take a break!!
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Planet Healths Educational Approach
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Planet Health Promotes...
Literacy Across the Curriculum
Active Learning
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Active Learning
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Use active learning to Build on what they know
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• Each classroom lesson
• Addresses Massachusetts learning standards in one
  of the four academic subjects.
• Uses content and/or skills specific to one of the
  academic subjects.
• Addresses one or more of the health learning
  standards.
• Incorporates language skills.

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Planet Healths Nutrition and Physical Activity
Messages
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Planet Health Goals
Make Space for...
Fitness
AND
Nutrition

• Keep Moving
• Be physically active daily or nearly every day
• Limit screen time to no more than two hours per
  day

Eat Well...

• Eat five or more fruits and vegetables per day
• Eat fat in moderation

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What are the benefits of good nutrition and
physical activity ?
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Healthy eating and active living

• Promote normal physical growth and development.
• Prevent childhood and adolescent health problems
  like obesity, dental carries, iron deficiency
  anemia, and even diabetes.
• Provide nutrients important for brain
  development, immunity, healing, and healthy skin
  and eyes, among other functions.
• Lower the risk of future chronic diseases such as
  heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and some
  cancers.

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Healthy eating and active living...

• Make you strong and fit.
• Brighten your mood and build a positive
  self-image.
• Help you maintain a healthy weight.
• Are important for learning.
• Are fun!!!

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Lesson 32 Pyramid Power Language ArtsBalanced
Diet Theme

• Ideally students should do this lesson after the
  student self-assessment lesson and before any
  other lessons on the Food Guide Pyramid.

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Reviewing the Food Guide Pyramid
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Planet HealthFruits and Vegetables Message
Eat 5 or more fruits and vegetables each day.
Eat at least 2 fruits each day. Eat at
least 3 vegetables each day. - At least 1 should
be orange or dark green.
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Language Arts Lesson 34 The Language of Food
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• Yummy Carrots
• I eat them day or night,
• So I can see just right.
• I love the great taste
• That never goes to waste.
• I love them with salad dressing
• Not having them is so depressing
• Orange, bright and healthy for me,
• Which makes me able to see
• Theyre fun to eat cause they crunch
• And you can have them for lunch.
• I think carrots are good, for me
• Thats why I eat them all, you see.

• Pineapples
• Pineapples can be sweet or sour,
• Or as yellow as a flower.
• Eating one is so much fun
• When its shining like the sun.
• The outsides like a porcupine,
• But the inside is quite fine.
• When you tear it, oh, it rips
• Softly into juicy strips.
• Pizzas good with pineapple on top,
• Dripping juice like water from a mop.
• Its taste is so easy to explain
• In summer sun or winter rain.

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Science Lesson 49
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Whats the Rap on Fat?
Not All Fats are Created Equal
Saturated Fat
Unsaturated Fat
Eating too much increases your risk of developing
heart disease.
Does not contribute to heart disease
Many animal products are high in this type of fat
Many plant oils are high in this type of fat
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Whats the Rap on Fat?
Not All Fats are Created Equal
Trans Fats
Increase the risk of developing heart disease
Created by the hydrogenation of vegetable oils
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Planet HealthFat Message
Eat a diet low in saturated fat and moderate in
total fat.

• 10 saturated fat
• 30 total fat
• Limit your intake of trans fats

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Planet Health Inactivity Message
Limit screen time to no more than 2 hours each
day. Screen time TV videos movies
video and computer games Doesnt include
school work completed on computer
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Social Studies Lesson 62 Impact of Technology
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Social Studies Lesson 62 Impact of Technology
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Social Studies Lesson 62 Impact of Technology

• How do the computer, TV, Internet, and VCR affect
  the daily physical activity of children your age?
• Compare your physical activity to the physical
  activity of children living in the early 1800s.
  Give several details to support your answer. How
  do you account for the difference?
• Compare your free time to the free time of
  children living in the 1800s How do you account
  for the difference?

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Social Studies Lesson 62Impact of Technology
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Power Down Charting Screen Time
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Power Down Charting TV Viewing Time
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Planet Health Activity Message
Be active daily or nearly every day.
Be moderately active for for at least 30
minutes each day Be vigorously active at least
20 minutes three times a week Aim for a total
of 60 minutes or more each day.
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Physical Activity Intensity
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Using the Planet Health Curriculum Guide
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Book Organization
Book Introduction
PE Curriculum
Classroom Curriculum

• Summary of the Microunits
• Introduction to the Microunits
• MicroUnits
• Part I
• Part II (Intro to FitCheck)
• Part III-VIII

• Introduction to the classroom curriculum
• Student Self-Assessment Lesson
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies

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Appendices

• Appendix A Nutrition Resources, p.483
• Appendix B Physical Activity Resources, p.492
• Appendix C Social Studies Resources, p. 494
• Appendix D Power Down Lesson, p. 495
• Appendix E Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks,
  p.508

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Implementation Overview
Classroom Teachers
PE Teachers
FitCheck
Student Self-Assessment
2-3 Classroom Lessons Per Subject
10-15 Micro-Units
Science Lessons
Power Down
Language Arts Lessons
Math Lessons
FitCheck
Student Self-Assessment
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Talking to Youth about Nutrition and Physical
Activity Habits
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What would you say if your students said.

• Why do we need to do these Planet Health lessons?
• Will Planet Health help me lose weight?
• I dont like exercise. Why is it important?
• I like to watch TV. Why do I need to stop
  watching TV?

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How might your concerns/behaviors impact your
delivery of the Planet Health material?