. The following is from a colleague (of many years standing) Mary Haas, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at West Virginia University. Tom Holloway --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: MaryHaas@aol.com [SMTP:MaryHaas@aol.com] Sent: 01 March 1999 14:19 To: tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk Subject: ideas for Granny's K Tom, I have a couple of suggestions. One is that today's recommended diet has become one that was asked of the people during W.W.II. Why is this the case? Probably because like the other health related things people did not know the real facts about health and its connections with other things. Therefore a study of what people ate at other time periods is informative. What did the diet consist of how balanced was it? What happened during the forced changes of W.W.II. What happened after? Now what is recommended. This would make a good unit of study. I realize it is more related to science and domestic science, but that is important. It is also related to the availability of money and transportation. I noticed you mentioned foods from other cultures. Whereas students don't like to eat things which they are not familiar, we do eat today lots of foods from other nations. Visit the supermarket and see the products. Ask the people in produce where these foods some from, especially those we usually eat that are now present throughout the year or at unusual times. Map this with a line from the nations of growth to your city. The resulting map will raise some interesting questions about trade or the lack of it with some nations and the shifts during the year. The costs of items and the impact of the interdependence of nations economically are indicated and can be investigated. Indeed, we are in a global economy Mary E. Haas
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