Enough to Eat: The Nutrition Film
Wartime health information film
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Description
A promotional film describing the principles of healthy eating and made as part of a wartime food policy. The film discusses the discovery of vitamins and minerals including the goodness of milk. Shots include a laboratory, exercising at school, boys being weighed and measured and the grouping of energy foods, body building foods and protective foods. Controversial scientist, Julian Huxley, features as a presenter.
Questions & Activities
Questions
- How many opinions do we hear in the clip?
- How reliable are the sources?
- Who do you think the presenter is?
- Why do you think the Gas Industry produced this film and what might they gain from it?
- What is the significance of class in this film?
- What does practical experiments were carried out on children mean?
- How do we measure good health in children now?
Activities
Health and Wellbeing: Play food group classifications games.
Health and Wellbeing: Research when free milk went into schools.
Debate: This house believes there should be free school milk.
Health and Wellbeing / Maths: How much milk/bread does your family buy - prepare a food survey and display in a table or graph.
Social History / Science: Research Julian Huxley.
Maths: Research the statistics of life expectancy .
Debate: This house believes that it is acceptable to use humans for experimentation.
Debate: This house believes that everyone can afford to eat healthily.
Clip Details
Record Id | 007-000-000-143-C |
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Resource Rights Holder | National Library of Scotland |
Project Ref | 0837 |
Date | 1936 |
Genre | Documentary, Educational |
School Subject | Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, Modern Studies, Philosophy, Science, Mathematics |
Who | Gas Industry (Sponsor), Julian Huxley (Presenter) |
Where | Scotland, India |
Attributes | Black and White, Sound |
Clip Length | 5:33 |
Film Length | 22:00 |
References | School tuck shop. |