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Physical health: Why have a healthy diet?

This unit emphasises the importance of maintaining a healthy, balanced diet for physical wellbeing. Pupils explore the links between diet, exercise and health, learn about nutritional choices, and understand how healthy habits support growth, energy and long-term health.

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Prior knowledge

  • Pupils should understand from Key Stage 2 that eating a variety of foods including fruits, vegetables, protein and carbohydrates is important for a healthy, balanced diet.
  • Pupils should know that regular physical activity is important for staying healthy and that different activities help keep the body strong and fit.
  • Pupils should be familiar with basic concepts of healthy living from previous units, including that personal choices about diet and exercise affect overall wellbeing.

Source curriculum references

  • The benefits and importance of physical activity, sleep, time outdoors, community participation and volunteering or acts of kindness for mental wellbeing and happiness.
  • The characteristics of a healthy lifestyle, including physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight.
  • The links between an inactive lifestyle and ill-health, including cardiovascular ill-health.
  • That physical activity can promote wellbeing and combat stress.
  • How to maintain healthy eating and the links between a poor diet and health risks, including tooth decay, unhealthy weight gain, and cardiovascular disease.
  • The risks of unhealthy weight gain, including increased risks of cancer, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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