Nuffield Home Economics: teachers' guide - nutrition
Nutrition was one of the four topics that featured as a separate area of study in the Nuffield Home Economics course for students aged 14–16. The course emphasised the influence of food choice on health. The authors appreciated that entrenched attitudes to food and feeding are as likely to influence dietary practice as reasoned argument so they suggested that theory must be capable of ready translation into habitual practice. Accordingly the approach to nutrition adopted for the course started with food habits, and then considered physiological needs for food and the influences that affect food choice. Prominence was given to food classifications and expressions of food composition which could readily be used when solving problems as various as planning a menu and taking a snap decision at a fast-food counter.
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