What is World Diabetes Day?
World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225. It is marked every year on 14 November.
Schools play a crucial role in a child’s life by shaping their education and behaviours. Promoting diabetes education and healthy lifestyles in the school environment can help ensure a healthy and prosperous tomorrow. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) and Sanofi initiated the Kids and Diabetes in Schools (KiDS) project in 2013. The aim of the KiDS programme is to bring diabetes education to schools to fight diabetes-related stigma and promote healthy lifestyles to tackle the preventable risk factors for type 2 diabetes.
When is National Diabetes Week?
Activities:
- Promote intentional healthy eating activities
- Discuss food chains which outlines sometimes and always foods
- Children to use their fine motor skills to cut images of sometimes and always food to great a poster.
- Encourage families to allow children to pack/make their own lunch from what they have learnt
- Celebrity Heads with Fruit and Vegetable - Children will wear the fruit and vegetable headbands. The child will sit facing the other children and describe what type of fruit is on their head. (ideal for preschoolers)
- Fruit and vegetable memory game
- How much sugar is in what we drink? - Experiment by counting how many spoons of sugar are in; soft drinks, milk, juice v's water