In this section we will cover the following topics.
Contexts That Affect Eating
Defining Your Story
Eating Well in Context
This section stresses that Eating Well is a personal choice that depends heavily on the situation of each student. It describes factors that may affect how students choose to eat and contains a questionnaire to help students think about their context.
Eating Well principles are universal. What Eating Well looks like for you will be very different depending on your beliefs, tastes, and circumstances. How you apply the principles to Eat Well is your choice.
Eating well principles are generally quite simple and apply to all of us. How we apply the principles is for us to choose and so, while the underlying principles are common, when we look at lots of people eating well, the what and how they eat can look very different. Not only between different people but it can look different depending on what's going on in our lives.
While the handbook has much that focuses on young students, straight from school who are living independently for the first time, we are also mindful that students don't all fit that description. Are you someone who is heading off to university after working for a few years as a part of a career change? Do you have a young child? Are you retired studying to follow a dream? Whatever kind of student you are, choosing to pursue full time study may require a change of lifestyle that affects how you shop, cook and eat. We hope that the Handbook speaks to you too.