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This video is called ‘Lesson 1: What is a food allergy? Allergy Adventures Workshop for schools’. You may wish to watch the other video in this series to learn more about why allergic reactions occur and how to avoid cross-contamination. Click on the right arrow to watch two further videos.

Table of Contents

Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

'Children’s diet and the long-term effects’ on the Kids and Nutrition website
'Food for thought: promoting healthy diets among children and young people’ from the British Medical Association.
'Nourishing the brain’ from the Institute for Food, Brain and Behaviour.
'Nutrition: Food Allergies’ on the Teach Early Years website
'Catering for special dietary requirements: A guide for early years settings in England’ from the Children’s Food Trust.
'Catering for special dietary requirements: A guide for schools and school caterers in England’ from the Children’s Food Trust.
'Religions’ from the BBC website.

Presentation

Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Food allergies’.
Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Factors that influence a healthy lifestyle'.
Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Cultural and religious diets'.

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Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

Click to read ‘Diet makes a difference to learning’ from the Centre for Educational Neuroscience.
This BBC News article reports that ‘Healthy diet ‘boosts childhood IQ’.
The news article is based on The Avon longitudinal study of parents and children and more details are available here by clicking on the link.
The Food Standards Agency have produced a number of resources for allergen information.
Use the internet to research how some medical conditions require special diets. You can start by looking up cystic fibrosis, thyroid disease, diabetes type 1.

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