WEB-BASED NUTRITION EDUCATION IN GEORGIA SENIOR CENTERS: PILOT TEST OF A DIETARY APPROACHES TO STOPPING HYPERTENSION (DASH) DIET WEBSITE PROTOTYPE by Ashley Harrison As increasing numbers of baby boomers enter retirement age, Georgia senior centers will be inundated with more computer-savvy seniors than ever before. Web-based nutrition education is a pragmatic option to complement the tradition...

OBJECTIVES To identify the research priorities for medical nutrition education worldwide. DESIGN A 5-step stakeholder engagement process based on methodological guidelines for identifying research priorities in health. PARTICIPANTS 277 individuals were identified as representatives for 30 different stakeholder organisations across 86 countries. The stakeholder organisations represented the ...

In 2011, the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding called on all health professional organizations, medical schools, and credentialing boards to establish and incorporate minimum lactation education and training requirements into their credentialing, licensing, and certification processes and to include breastfeeding education in undergraduate and graduate education and trai...

1391 nutritional health, and emerging research and practices regarding nutrition, diet, and oral medicine. Although the chapter “Complementary and Alternative Medical Practices” include some therapies not recognized as the standard of care by the American Dental Association, it is well written and informative. Section four, “Select Diseases and Conditions with Known Nutrition and Oral Health Co...

PURPOSE Using the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics benchmarks as a framework, this study examined childcare providers' (Head Start [HS], Child and Adult Care Food Program [CACFP] funded, and non-CACFP) perspectives regarding communicating with parents about nutrition to promote children's health. DESIGN Qualitative. SETTING State-licensed center-based childcare programs. PARTICIPANTS Fu...

The purpose of this research was to assess the frequency of nutrition label use among college students and its relationship to nutrition and label knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding diet-disease relationships, and to determine factors predictive of frequent or infrequent label use. This study utilized a cross-sectional design. Volunteer participants included a convenience sample of 1,2...

Chiyoko Usui1,2, Motoko Taguchi3, Kazuko Ishikawa-Takata4 and Mitsuru Higuchi5 1Department of Health Promotion and Exercise, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 2Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 3Japan Women’s College of Physical Education, 4Department of Nutritional Education, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 5Faculty of Sport Sciences, Wase...

Purpose: Using the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics benchmarks as a framework, this study examined childcare providers’ (Head Start [HS], Child and Adult Care Food Program [CACFP] funded, and non-CACFP) perspectives regarding communicating with parents about nutrition to promote children’s health. Design: Qualitative. Setting: State-licensed center-based childcare programs. Participants: Full...

Understanding and applying nutrition knowledge and skills to all aspects of health care are extremely important, and all health care professions need basic training to effectively assess dietary intake and provide appropriate guidance, counseling, and treatment to their patients. With obesity rates at an all-time high and the increasing prevalence of diabetes projected to cost the Federal gover...

Objective: Nutrition knowledge among primary school children in Kenya requires improvement because the coverage of nutrition in syllabi has been on a downward trend since independence. A nine-month nutrition education intervention was conducted to address the gap in knowledge among school children in Machakos District. Methodology and results: A baseline survey was conducted among 350 pupils in...