The Healthy Food Slide Rule (HFSR): A Nutrition Education Tool for Children

Elaine M. Long; Uwe Reischl; Barbara B. Abo

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2009.07.006

The Healthy Food Slide Rule (HFSR): A Nutrition Education Tool for Children

Elaine M. Long
, Uwe Reischl
, Barbara B. Abo

School of Public and Population Health

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The Healthy Food Slide Rule (HFSR) is a new educational tool designed specifically for use by school children in grades 4-6. The HFSR teaches the importance of including the 5 food groups and the importance of complying with appropriate portion sizes as presented in MyPyramid. ^{1, 2} The portion size information included in the HFSR combines the healthy eating and physical activity messages offered by MyPyramid for Kids. ^{3, 4} The new tool can be easily incorporated into existing math lessons (weights, measures, and fractions), into language arts lessons, or into science lessons. ⁵

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	63-65
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
Volume	42
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2009.07.006
State	Published - Jan 2010

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