{"id":294,"date":"2023-05-18T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:17:08","slug":"food-and-health-opening-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=294","title":{"rendered":"Food and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food and Health<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Children and young people need to develop their understanding of a healthy diet, which is one composed of a variety and balance of foods and drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They should acquire knowledge and skills to make healthy food choices and help to establish lifelong healthy eating habits. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They develop an appreciation that eating can be an enjoyable activity and understand the role of food within social and cultural contexts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They can explore how the dietary needs of individuals and groups vary through life stages, for example during pregnancy and puberty, and the role of breastfeeding during infancy. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Children and young people need to develop knowledge and understanding of safe and hygienic practices and their importance to health and wellbeing and apply these in practical activities and everyday routines including good oral health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=536\">Accreditation and Wider Achievement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=390\">Food in Schools<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=523\">Key Policy and Guidance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=531\">Professional Learning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=640\">Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=541\">School Awards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food and Health Children and young people need to develop their understanding of a healthy diet, which is one composed of a variety and balance of foods and drinks. Children and young people need to develop knowledge and understanding of safe and hygienic practices and their importance to health and wellbeing and apply these in practical activities and everyday routines including good oral health. Related Content Accreditation and Wider Achievement<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/?page_id=294\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20564,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/healthandwelbeing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}