Understand Food & Poop Habits - Schools and Clinics

Created by New Zealand Registered Dietitian Kendall North, this high-visibility educational poster normalises healthy body functions and takes the shame completely out of toilet habits.

This tool focuses on what happens inside the body. It pairs a friendly, age-appropriate adaptation of clinical stool tracking metrics alongside the friendly concept of "Poop Helpers" (like fibre and hydration). Grounded in the holistic wellbeing of Te Whare Tapa Whā, this poster bridges the gap between the physical body (Taha Tinana) and emotional safety (Taha Hinengaro). By showing children how fibre and water act as helpful friends that gently guide poop along its journey, it soothes food anxiety, calms the gut-brain axis, and teaches children to interpret real-world body signals through trust rather than fear.

Why This Belongs in Your School, Kura, or Clinic:

• Meet the Poop Helpers: Uses engaging, child-friendly visuals to introduce fibre and hydration as helpful team members that keep our digestive system moving happily.

• Calming the Gut-Brain Connection: Visually normalises natural biology, reducing the emotional stress that directly worsens chronic bowel issues, anxiety, and withholding.

• Concrete, Experience-Based Learning: Replaces abstract nutrition rules with intuitive, real-world body feedback that children can instantly see and understand.

• De-stigmatises Everyday Biology: Uses warm, playful, and non-judgmental illustrations to turn a traditionally "embarrassing" topic into a normal, healthy, everyday conversation.

• Supports Emotional Regulation (Taha Hinengaro): Visually demonstrates how a settled, well-hydrated digestive system physically supports a calm brain, helping young people process big emotions without internal physical discomfort.

• Fosters Safe Whanaungatanga: Creates a shared, neutral vocabulary across your entire facility, allowing teachers, nurses, and clinicians to support students or patients without causing defensiveness or anxiety.

Professional & Institutional Pricing (Schools, Centres, & Clinics)

Every institutional purchase automatically includes a Single-Site Display Licence for display throughout one early learning centre, school campus, private practice clinic, PHO, or hospital ward.

• A3 Format Professional Poster: $39.00 (Compact 297mm x 420mm — ideal for individual cubicles or standard toilet doors)

• A2 Format Professional Poster: $49.00 (Premium large 420mm x 594mm — high visual impact for main clinic rooms, health corridors, or communal washrooms)

💡 Bundle & Save: Need to equip multiple spaces? Save money and build your own custom set across your campus or clinic with our native [A3 Mix & Match Bundle] or our high-visibility [A2 Mix & Match Bundle]!

Heavy-Duty, Clinic-Grade Quality: Built for High-Moisture Spaces

Classrooms, school washrooms, and busy clinical spaces are high-traffic, high-moisture zones. Standard paper and cheap laminates quickly warp, bubble, or peel. To solve this, these resources are printed exclusively on Duroprint—a premium, heavy-duty synthetic material engineered for absolute durability.

• 100% Waterproof & Tear-Resistant: It will not wrinkle, rip, or ruin if it gets wet, splashed, or handled by enthusiastic little hands.

• Easy to Clean & Sanitise: Perfectly designed for bathroom environments. It safely wipes clean with a damp cloth or hospital-grade sanitising wipes without any fading, bleeding, or warping.

• Long-Lasting & Low Waste: Because it never frays or curls at the edges, it lasts for years. This means far fewer replacements and significantly less long-term institutional waste.

• Child-Safe & Non-Toxic: Completely PVC-free, phthalate-free, and heavy-metal free, making it perfectly safe for high-touch public and clinical spaces.

• Fully Recyclable: At the end of its incredibly long life, it is fully recyclable (Type 5 / PP plastic).

NZ Procurement, Invoicing & Purchase Orders

We fully support institutional procurement pathways. We gladly accept standard school, kura, district health board, and medical centre Purchase Orders, and we offer direct bank transfer invoicing.

Simply select "Online Bank Transfer / Purchase Order" as your payment method at checkout, or email our team directly at dietitian@kendallnorth.co.nz with your specific administrative requirements.

Disclaimer: This resource is intended for general educational and health literacy purposes only within schools, centres, and clinics to support healthy body awareness. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace individualised clinical medical advice. If you have concerns about a child's or patient's chronic digestion, bowel habits, nutrition, or general Hauora, please seek clinical advice from an appropriate health professional.

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