Grade 12 Nutrition and Health (HFA4U)

The Ontario Grade 12 course Nutrition and Health, code HFA4U, has five strands: Research and Inquiry Skills, Nutrition and Health, Eating Patterns and Trends, Local and Global Issues, and Food-Preparation Skills. The museum maps nine lessons in strands B to E and none in strand A.

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Strand B: Nutrition and Health

Nutrients, Canada's Food Guide, energy balance and the nutritional status of groups; the museum maps one lesson (B4.3).

  1. When war and plague empty the market How war, plague and disorder changed what people could eat in two famine years recorded by chroniclers (B4.3). Story × 2

Strand C: Eating Patterns and Trends

Food at stages of life, nutrition and illness, and why people adopt eating patterns; the museum maps four lessons (C1.1, C1.2, C2.1, C3.2).

  1. Feeding the child, carrying the child How two legal texts treat the feeding of an infant and the fasting of a pregnant or nursing woman (C1.1). Reflection × 2
  2. Belief and the shopping list How one scholar's division of things into lawful, unlawful and doubtful shapes what a believer eats (C1.2). Reflection
  3. Eating for health and in illness How a jurist's rule on diet in illness treats what a patient eats, as history and law and not as advice (C2.1). Reflection
  4. Why people fast Two speakers' reasons for the Ramadan fast, as an eating pattern people adopt (C3.2). Reflection

Strand D: Local and Global Issues

Food security, food production and supply, and the environment; the museum maps three lessons (D1.1, D1.4, D2.4).

  1. Land and water: the base of food What two records say about who may farm land and who may reach water, as parts of food availability and access (D1.1). Reflection × 2
  2. Withholding food from the market One legal answer on merchants who hold back food to sell it dearer, as a question of food distribution (D1.4). Reflection
  3. Changing animals for food What one international fiqh body said about foods from genetically modified animals, a trend in food production (D2.4). Reflection

Strand E: Food-Preparation Skills

Kitchen safety, food safety and the skills of preparing food; the museum maps one lesson (E3.4).

  1. A recipe and the rules of slaughter What a jurist's rules of slaughter mean for choosing the meat in a recipe (E3.4). Reflection

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