Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Preventing Childhood Obesity: an Early Start to Healthy Living
University of Wollongong
This course followed the latest innovative research in childhood development regarding the complexities and implications of childhood obesity and strategies for prevention. Learners examined the delicate roles of nutrition, physical activity, screen time and sleep in establishing healthy patterns in children’s lives, and evaluated evidence-based lifestyle approaches for providing children under 5 years old with an early start to healthy living.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Tony Okely
Professor of Education and Director of the Early Start Research Institute
University of Wollongong
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the benefits of a healthy lifestyle for infants and young children
- Debate the issues that childhood obesity may pose for our population in future years
- Compare and evaluate the practical approaches of putting lifestyle changes into practice in the home and early childhood education setting
- Identify, describe and compare the guidelines for healthy eating, physical activity, screen time and sleep from different countries
- Discuss the influence of parents and educators in establishing positive lifestyle behaviours
- Report on the importance of setting goals to initiate and maintain behaviour change
- Reflect on the need for optimising early lifestyle practices for future health
Syllabus
- The complexities and implications of the global obesity epidemic facing children of the 21st century
- The impact of nutrition, physical activity, screen time and sleep on childhood obesity
- Factors influencing a child’s nutrition, physical activity, screen time and sleep (the ecological model)
- Guidelines for understanding what healthy eating means for young children and how to put it into practice
- Practical strategies for promoting healthy eating for children (making fruit and vegetables more attractive, modifying recipes and menus, reducing discretionary foods, and making meal times positive)
- Physical activity milestones, challenges and guidelines for children under 5 years old
- Strategies for promoting physical activity for children (creating active spaces and opportunities for physical activity in everyday and childcare settings)
- The prevalence and complexities of screen time in the 21st century and its influence on young children
- Guidelines for screen use for children under 5 years of age
- Strategies for promoting healthy screen time for young children (creating a balance by reducing, maximising and replacing screen time)
- The science behind sleep across the lifespan and how it is measured and regulated
- Guidelines for sleep in young children
- Practical strategies for optimising, prioritising and promoting sleep hygiene
Issued on 28th December 2016
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