Name: Starting a Food Revolution in School | TED + GBS Present Torchbearers
Uploaded: 2020-12-29T10:54:16.000Z
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and to empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

- They had a big idea to change the world,

Food is simple, it's just raw ingredients,

but it's the most powerful killer on the planet.

Every child has the human right to be taught about food,

where it comes from, how it affects their body,

because it's at the frontline of the fight against obesity.

- In the past, the children weren't eating the right things.

to educate the school about the fact that

we're feeding the children the wrong food.

There is so many lessons in the primary curriculum,

we looked at math, science, history, geography,

and we saw how we could put that around food.

it's something everyone looks forward to.

- Today we're doing a little bit of science in the kitchen.

- We are going to combine our lessons on Diwali,

but also our lessons on shape and symmetry.

- Would you say this is a physical change

and so we can do the whole topic around that.

- Okay, and the Aztecs have been cooking with chocolate.

- And it's interesting because it's not made as they think

with all the milk in that they would have had,

Some children like it, some children don't.

For maths, simple weighing and measuring.

- We're gonna be doing a lot of measuring,

'cause we have to measure out some liquids,

which we did last term, we did some measuring.

Over a period of time, we're able to build a garden.

- The chickens come out, and they try and chase ya.

two poly tunnels, so we can grow year round.

- I will pick onions, broccoli and carrots

- Twelve or 13 years ago there was a reluctance

what we were aiming for and what we were trying to do.

epidemic proportions that it's reached now.

We're getting children that look and appear more healthy.

is introduce us to worlds of healthy food.

that's not gonna shorten your life by 10 years.

- You don't die young 'cause you didn't do

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