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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...adults will be overweight, over 1 billion affected by obesity, and 177 million adults severely affected by obesity by 2025. This conflicting information is staggering and demonstrates that weight loss products are not addressing the obesity epidemic that is being faced on a global level. Obesity is also an increasingly common problem in Northern Ireland. The latest data...
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Article 5 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course, Encouraging book talk in the school library,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...adults have an adult perspective, so it is important that children and young people are supported to make their own opinions and viewpoints heard. Wanting to learn what social research is all about: Most children and young people have experience of project work at school (i.e. they find out about things that are already known) but few of them will have had an opportunity...
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Article 10 mins
How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...care of our mental health is especially important as we get older and Green and Blue spaces are well recognised for making a substantial difference. But it’s not always easy for older people, carers, care home residents and people living with dementia to go outdoors for a walk and it’s not always easy for those with caring responsibilities to take loved ones or...
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Article 10 mins
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...care services for children, elders, the poor, the disabled and other vulnerable people are now provided by what are called social or multi-stakeholder cooperatives. A multi-stakeholder cooperative, explains P2P Foundation president Michel Bauwens in an interview with Shareable magazine, can include workers, producers, consumers, owners, volunteers and community activists....
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Article 5 mins
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...adults being overweight or obese (predominantly focusing on obesity), including a person’s lifestyle. When Level/Year 2 Open University students from the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care were asked to consider this question, more than two-thirds selected ‘Yes – a little (being overweight is somewhat to do with a person’s lifestyle)’. The results were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...adult weight, reaching 90% of adult size by age five. Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, 2021 ‘Brain-based learning’ (BBL) is receiving increasing attention in the popular and professional fields. But what exactly is it? Before we explore the idea further it is important to understand the brain as we currently know it. The diagram of the brain (below) will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...cared for her husband through motor neurone disease to the end of his life, describes her experience of grief and becoming a widow and about her thought-provoking insight into her journey from care giver to a self-published author...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Becoming a widow When my husband Alan was dying, one...
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Article 5 mins