Room 4 visits Harold & Pip

Harold and Pip came to Lawrence Area School in the Life Education mobile classroom in the first week of Term 4. We had three visits with Harold and Pip to learn all about our body systems, in particular the digestive system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system ..... and others. We learnt how our body parts work together to make our body operate effectively. We also found out how important our liver is - did you know that your liver does over 500 jobs in your body? Some of the things that it does is: stores vitamins and minerals, breaks down poisons and chemicals e.g bee stings, warms the blood.... and many more.

We also learnt how to read the nutritional information on the back of food packaging. We learnt to look in the 100g column of the packaging, and to check for less than 10g of sugar and fat as these foods are healthier choices. Also less than 120mg of sodium (salt) is healthier for us.

We were amazed at the levels of sugar and fat in some foods that we thought were healthy, especially muesli bars and some fruit bars that were advertised as healthy! We found out that some of our everyday breakfast foods e.g Nutrigrain, are not that good for us as everyday breakfast foods. They are still ok to have occasionally; maybe just for weekend breakfasts.

So check that packaging at home and maybe you will be able to make some healthier choices for your own snacks and meals.