Healthy eating can promote children’s growth and reduce the risks of many chronic diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and certain types of cancer. However, for several reasons, healthy eating is not a common practice among local students. According to data from the Department of Health (DH), about one in five of the local primary school students is overweight or obese. (EatSmart@school.hk) 
 
To promote healthy eating in an innovative and creative way, Dr. CHUNG Ming Yan, Louisa invited students to design a board game about healthy eating for primary students in HCS4033 Integrative Nutrition. The theme of the board game focuses on the concepts of balanced diet. The objective of this game-based activity is to stimulate primary students to achieve some areas on healthy eating such as food categories, relationships of nutrients and food groups, portion size of healthy eating, reduction on oil, sugar and salt intake, and nutrients and diseases etc.
 
All 10 groups of students created varied board games and ideas to promote healthy eating, and 2 of them did well on the design.

HCS4033 Integrative Nutrition
Board Game Name:	Health Son	Walk With Your Knowledge
Target Players:	Primary School Students	Primary 4 – 6 Students
No. of Players:	2 – 4 players	3 – 4 players
Duration:	30 – 45 mins	15 – 30 mins
Objectives:	Learn and apply the rules of balanced diet Identify the major nutritional content of different foods Define a balanced diet and design a 3-2-1 portions lunch box Distinguish which eating behaviours negatively affect body nutrition	Learn different types of food in the food pyramid Learn the names of the categories of the food pyramid (e.g. grains, vegetables, or fruits) Distinguish different food categories in the food pyramid after playing the game
Details:	Introduction Demonstration	Introduction Demonstration
Group members:	FUNG Chun-tat King (upper left), LEUNG Nga-yuan (upper right), CHOW King-chuen (bottom left), and LIU Kei-nga (bottom right)	CHEUNG Wing-yan (upper left), CAI Ming-ming (upper right), WONG Ka-fai (bottom left), and TSENG Lap-hei (bottom right)
Photos:	“Health Son”   Food cards   Challenge cards	“What with Your Knowledge”   Food cards   Challenge cards