Merry Berry, programme d'éducation nutritionnelle à l'école primaire

The birth of Merry Berry

Behind this project is a dietitian fond of this subject! Her goal is to tackle childhood obesity by fighting bad eating habits in schools.

We are constantly told how much obesity is a plague in France and elsewhere but no one ever told us that 50% of obese children and 70% of teenagers will remain obese once they are adults. The thing is: we don't do anything concrete to change!

A solution ? Playful nutrition education at an early age before children get confronted to more freedom as for where and what they eat at lunch breaks.

The project

The idea is to offer one-hour sessions led by a nutrition expert, once a week, for 8 weeks to cover a number of food-related topics such as breakfast, sugar,greens, farming....

The program should not be a classic boring class but a real joyful experience made of meetings with little local producers, blind tastings and so on. For the project to be a moment to remember, pupils would be given a diploma to encourage them to be proud of their new knowledge and spread the word.