teaching healthy eating to high schoolers

i teach 9th and 10th grade english with a pretty open curriculum. i'm attempting to attach a healthy lifestyles plan to my lessons. i'm looking for some books appropriate for the matter. i'm thinkin fast food nation (excerpts, since it's a bit wordy), and super size me. i know there's a teachers edition out there somewhere; anyone know anything bout that? someone suggested i read The Jungle, which i am considering, but it's a bit dated, so the kids might get restless. the trick is to interest them enough in the first place, i get through to them.
any ideas would be great!

 

vegetarian cookbooks?

maybe have them right how to cook a favorite veggie meal?
if the recipe is written wrong it won't turn out.

okay this is something i did in the 4th grade.. but with just PB&J sammiches

 

i dont think half of them will listen to you. which i am sorry to say, but i have to worst eating habits, i think its a disorder.

 

when i read "the jungle" it still hit me in a profound way. i would have to stop along the way when reading it in public so i wouldn't start crying. throughout the years i was always insulted when teachers didn't think i could handle reading that might be considered challenging to some standards epecially if you let them discuss what they are readind along the way.

 

"A bit dated?" While the mention of dollar amounts of things may seem funny, there is certainly nothing dated about Eastern Europeans in America being treated as second class citizens or about anyone being forced into the type of slavery that those people worked in the processing plants.

I am NOT a teacher, but a continuing student. When I went to college the first time around I studied translation of the sciences. Certain sciences were co-requisites and the adjuncts worked with one another interdisciplinary so that texts from one class to the next might be matched up.

Why not find out who is taking biology or chemistry and teach about diabetes, renal failure, digestion, etc.

 

yeah, i've been in the works with the science teacher to do a co-unit on nutrition. she's also really into recycling and the likes, so perhaps we'll expand the focus.

 

diet for a new america might be helpful. idk though, never read it but i hear good things. id suggest lookin into fluro lights too, especially with energy prices skyrocketing the way they are.

 

I suggest if you're looking for a good veggie book. Have them read Peter Singer Animal Liberation...

Or...have them read Silent Spring. It's more environmentally based than vegetarian based, but it certainly ethical and animal friendly.

Just a thought.