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POST-BASIC SKILLS MODULE FOOD AND NUTRITION
ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER TRAINING PROGRAMME
This material was produced by the
Northern Territory Department of Health,
with assistance from TAFE Curriculum Section, N.T. Department of Education
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ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK
MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION UNIT: NUTRITION FOR ADULTS TOPIC: NORMAL NUTRITION
WORDS TO KNOW
Talk about the meanings of these words with your tutor. To help you remember them~ Pick out words from the box to say what each one means.
appetite means normal means
repair means tissue means exercise means
using the body~ arms and legs in walking or running or playing the things which make a part of our bodies~ like the skin
wanting to eat or drink something making something good again
something which is the same for most people
From the WORDS TO KNOW list~ Pick out the best words to fill the empty places in these sentences.
1. Sick people sometimes do not want to eat. They have no~~~~~~~~
2. Young children themselves bY playing games.
3. All the parts of our bodies are made up from things called~~~~~~~~-
4. A child with a fever has a temperature higher than ACTIVITY 1
Write all the foods you ate in one day - perhaps yesterday. Talk about the list with another Health Worker. Are they the kinds of foods you need to be healthy?
ACTIVITY 2
Look at all the foods you wrote in ACTIVITY 1. Use the posters about FOOD GROUPS to make a better list of foods for yourself.
ACTIVITY 3
Examine yourself and see whether you show all the signs of good health. Write down the signs that you see.
ACTIVITY 4
Is there a person in your Community who is not eating good food?
Examine him/her and write down all the signs that he/she shows.
Write down what you will tell that person about better foods.
ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK
MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION UN-IT: NUTRITION FOR ADULTS TOPIC: OVERWEIGHT
WORDS TO KNOW
Talk about the meanings of these words with your tutor. To helo you remember them~ pick out words from the box to say what each one means.
high blood pressure means overweight means
diabetes means diet means
ACTIVITY 1
a sickness which comes from not having enough insulin the different kinds of foods which we eat every day being too fat
a sickness of the heart and blood vessels
Do you know any people who you think are fat? Why do you say they are fat? Talk about how they look.
ACTIVITY 2
Measure the height of another Health Worker <or 2 or 3 others) in centimetres (cm).
Use the height/weight scale to find out what weight he/she should be. Write down what you have found out.
Name
Health Worker's Height
Normal Weight
<on the scale)
Health Worker's Weight
Now weigh the Health Worker/s. Write down the weight in the right place. Read the scale again. Say whether the Health Worker has a normal weight or is overweight.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT SCALE WOMEN
HEIGHT (cm) NORMAL WEIGHT (kg) OVERWEIGHT
143 42 - 54 over 55
145 43 - 55 56
147 44 - 56 57
149 45 - 57 58
151 46 - 58 59
153 47 - 59 60
155 48 - 61 62
157 49 - 63 64
159 50 - 64 65
161 51 - 65 66
163 52 - 66 67
165 53 - 68 69
167 55 - 69 70
169 56 - 71 72
171 58 - 72 73
173 59 - 74 75
175 60 - 76 77
177 62 - 78 79
179 63 - 79 80
HEIGHT/WEIGHT SCALE MEN
HEIGHT (cm) NORMAL WEIGHT (kg) OVERWEIGHT
155 50 - 63 Over 64
157 51 - 65 66
159 52 - 66 67
161 53 - 68 69
163 54 - 69 70
165 55 - 70 71
167 57 - 72 73
169 · 58 - 73 74
171 60 - 75 76
173 61 - 76 77
175 62 - 78 79
177 64 - 79 80
179 65 - 81 82
181 67 - 83 84
183 68 - 85 86
185 69 - 86 87
187 71 - 88 89
189 72 - 90 91
191 74 - 92 93
ACTIVITY 3
On this drawing of an overweight personJ show the parts of the body which can be affected.
Write the names of the parts and what can happen to them.
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ACTIVITY 4
Use the words which finish these sentences and make them right. Write the whole sentences.
1. Eating a lot 5 times a day is a) less food than a person needs.
b) more food than a person needs.
c) enough food.
2. A person who eats a lot should a) sleep a lot.
b) eat more.
c) do some exerci$e.
3. Eat plenty of sweet biscuits and drink plenty of lemonade~ then you will a) stay healthy.
b) get thin.
c) get fat.
4. People who are overweight should a) eat more.
b) eat better kinds of food.
c) sleep more.
5. Young overweight people can help to lose weight by a) sleeping through the day.
b) sitting down and playing cards.
c) playing football and basketball.
ACTIVITY 5
Write three other problems which an overweight person might have - a woman or a man.
ACTIVITY 6
These are things that a very fat person might eat in a day. Put a cross beside the foods which that person should not eat. Put a line under the foods he could eat.
Orange Fried Potatoes Roasted Fish
Cereal Fried Beef Yams
Golden syrup Tomatoes Bread
Jam Bananas Honey
Fruit Juice Can of Beer Lemonade
Fried Eggs Cheese Boiled Chicken
ACTIVITY 7
Do you have a Take-away in the Community <or town)?
Write down all the foods sold there which are not good for an overweight person.
ACTIVITY 8
Visit the store. , Look at all the foodstuffs. Write the names of the foods which are good for overweight people~ on a diet~ to eat.
ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION UNIT: NUTRITION FOR ADULTS TOPIC: DIABETES
WORDS TO KNOW
Talk about the meanings of these words with your tutor. To help you remember them) pick out words from the box to say what each one means.
diabetes means insulin means injection means digest means starchy means diabetic means pancreas means intestines means digestion means exercise means
foods like rice~ flour or potatoes
the way food is broken into small parts too much sugar in the blood
doing active things
something which helps move the sugar out of the blood to break food into small parts
a person with diabetes
the organ where food is digested giving medicine with a needle the organ where insulin is made
From the WORDS TO KNOW list1 pick out the right words to fill in the empty places in these sentences.
1. The ... is the part of the body which makes I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 2. Food is digested in the , 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 , 1 , , , 1 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ,
3. Bread1 damper and potatoes are ... foods.
4. Sugar and sweet foods are not good for a ... I • • • • • • • • • I • • • • • • • : .
5. One treatment for diabetes is a daily I • • • • I . I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • of insulin.
ACTIVITY 1
Finish these sentences with the words form the boxes which make them true.
1. In our bodies~ sweet foods and starch are changed to ... . salt sugar blood
2. The sugar is used by the ... to do work.
skin blood muscles
3. . ... helps the sugar to move from the blood to the muscles.
pancreas insulin ~ntestines
4. A person becomes diabetic when there is ... insulin.
a lot of enough not enough
5. Too much sugar in the blood can make people feel I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I weak and tired strong and healthy angry
ACTIVITY 2
Read these sentences. Write RIGHT or WRONG beside each one.
1. Diabetics have too much sugar in their blood.
2. Diabetic people do not have enough insulin.
3. Diabetes affects many parts of the body.
4. A lazy pancreas produces a lot of insulin.
5. Overweight people don't get diabetes.
6. Insulin moves sugar from the blood to the muscles.
7. A diabetic feels fit and well.
ACTIVITY 3
On this drawing show the parts of the body where a diabetic person may have trouble. Write down what might happen to -
eyes
heart
skin
feet
ACTIVITY 4
Read all these sentences. Pick out the ones which talk about the treatment of diabetes.
1. Give the patient plenty of butter and fatty foods.
2. Make sure that overweight patients have some exercise.
3. Let the patient eat whatever he likes.
4. Help an overweight patient lose some weight.
5. Tell the patient to eat foods like fresh fruit) vegetables and fish or chicken.
6. Tell the doctor about the patient.
ACTIVITY 5
Look at the book 'Foods for the Overweight and Diabetic Person'. Visit the store. Write the names of foods which are high in sugar. These are not good for diabetics ..
ACTIVITY 6
Talk about good foods for diabetic people with the tutor. Write down good foods for one day~
for a patient with diabetes. Use only the foods you can get in your own community - 'bush tucker' or food you can buy in the store.
ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK
MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION UNIT: NUTRITION FOR ADULTS TOPIC: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
WORDS TO KNOW
Talk about the meanings of these words with your tutor. To help you remember them~ Pick out words from the box to say what each one means.
blood pressure means stroke means
organ means
when blood stops going to a part of the brain a part of the body
a sickness of the heart and blood vessels
From the WORDS TO KNOW list~ pick out words to fill the empty places in these sentences.
1. An overweight person might develop ... , ... . 2. The old man can't move his legs or arms after he had a ... I
3. The heart is one .. I . I I I . I I I 1 , • • • • I .which might be affected bY high blood pressure.
ACTIVITY 1
on this drawingJ show three parts of the body where high blood pressure can cause trouble.
Write what might happen to those parts.
ACTIVITY 2
Pick out words from the box to finish these sentences and make them true.
1. When a person is overweight., the heart ... .
2. High blood pressure can cduse trouble ... . 3. overweight people with high blood pressure ... I I • • • • • I • • • • • I • • • •
4 . Eat i n g 1 es s s a 1 t may . . . I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
ACTIVITY 3
lower the blood pressure for pregnant women
should lose weight must work harder
Write two things a person with high blood pressure must do about food.
1.
2.
ACTIVITY 4
Write the kinds of food which are suitable to help an overweight person to lose weight.
