Useful healthy lifestyle advice for families during coronavirus.
Here is a list of relevant organisations that are offering nutrition and physical activity advice during this difficult time.
Nutrition:
- British Dietetic AssociationThere website has useful advice and recipes on cooking at home with children and top tips as to how to involve children at different ages. Some information provided here:
https://www.bda.uk.com/food-health/lets-get-cooking/recipes.html
https://www.bda.uk.com/food-health/lets-get-cooking/cooking-at-home.html
- Food – A Fact of Life (FFL)
The FFL Classroom hosts a wide range of resources, covering seven learning approaches: everyday learning; finding out and exploring; being active; worksheets; interactive quizzes and activities; being creative (through writing, arts and crafts) and cooking. The FFL Classroom also provides tips and best practice advice for parents and carers.
Resources focus on key food themes within curriculum areas, such as where food comes from, cooking, and healthy eating, but also offer a range of opportunities for cross-curricular (interdisciplinary) learning. Many resources and activities use food as a vehicle to provide engaging learning via subjects such as: numeracy, literacy, humanities, science, PSHE/health and wellbeing, D&T, religious education, and art.
The FFL Classroom will provide an activity or resource for every day, from now until 1 September 2020, with new sets of resources being launched weekly throughout the coming months. There is a section aimed at 3-5 year olds.
https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/whole-school/remote-learning/
- First Steps Nutrition
Eating well family recipe book may provide a few ideas for families.
- Change for Life – https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes
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BeeZee Bodies
Recipes, blog posts, healthy tips, behaviour change strategies, cooking videos, and physical activity ideas for kids and adults are all available on the BeeZee Bodies website as well as their social media pages which are updated multiple times a week. https://beezeebodies.com
Physical Activity:
- World Health Organisation – Europe
Tips on staying active at home can be found here:
- Stay In Work Out – A movement of people around England finding new ways to get moving in and around the home, powered by Sport England. Lots of information available online for activity videos and ideas all collated by Sport England.
https://www.sportengland.org/stayinworkout/
- Herts Sports Partnership
The Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership have been compiling lots of practical resources to help the community stay physically and mentally active at home over the last couple of weeks which we have called ‘Work Out From Home’ and is detailed here on our website https://sportinherts.org.uk/workoutfromhome/
- Change for Life – Indoor Activities
Get active at home – lots of ideas for children and families
- BBC – Cbeebies
Activities at home for younger children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/fun-exercises-to-do-at-home-with-kids
- Joe Wickes
Offering daily P.E. activities lasting around 20 minutes (plus warm up) at 9am via YouTube
- The Scouts – Ideas for indoors
