BACKGROUND Chile has suffered a fast increase in childhood obesity in the last 10 years. As a result, several school programmes have been implemented, however the effectiveness of these needs to be evaluated to identify and prioritize strategies to curve this trend. METHODS Cluster randomized controlled trial. Twelve primary public schools chosen at random over three regions of the country wi...

There is an increasing recognition of the importance of diet in the prevention of CHD. Dietary recommendations of various authoritative bodies are summarized. There is now a concensus of opinion concerning certain nutritional changes needed. These have important implications for education, agriculture, food labelling and food subsidies. It is concluded that a national food policy is needed, but...

(b) The administration of the Health Department to be per medium of a Governing Board representative of the various sciences concerned in the maintenance of racial health, i.e., Applied Biology, Chemistry, Dentistry, Economics, Education, Endocrinology, Ethics, Eugenics, Hygiene and Sex Hygiene, Medicine (including the establishment of a Chair of Pediatrics), Nutritional Physiology, Pharmaceuti...

College students of Food and Beverage Management related disciplines in southern Taiwan were surveyed in order to investigate the influencing factors of students’ nutritional knowledge, behaviors and attitudes. Eight hundred and fifty questionnaires were given with 723 returned and of which 584 were valid. Results showed that the overall percentage of correct answers on nutritional knowledge, a...

Abstract Malnutrition in children is a significant risk factor for child mortality and global health problem. One of the influencing factors low economic mother's education. This study aimed to analyze effect mothers’ nutritional education knowledge on children’s status: systematic review. The literature examined this review uses four databases, including Embase, ProQuest, PubMed, Google schola...

Background: Nutrition education delivered by classroom teachers has become a popular intervention designed to combat childhood obesity. However, few qualitative studies have explored nutrition education with teachers Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how elementary teachers describe their experience with nutrition education. Methods: A qualitative phenomenological approach was u...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES School-based nutrition education has been widely implemented in recent years to fight the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity in China. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN A comprehensive literature search was performed using six databases to identify studies of school-based nutrition education interventions in China. The methodological quality and the risk of bias of se...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine if paediatric oral health education leaflets with a food and nutritional focus provide messages that are clear and consistent with the current Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Infant Feeding Guidelines. METHODS Forty-three leaflets aimed at parents were sourced from Australian state and territory Health Departments, oral health industry p...

BACKGROUND Individuals with chronic spinal cord injuries (SCIs) have an increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors compared with age-matched control subjects. Exercise has been shown to improve selected CVD risk factors in individuals with SCI, but using nutrition education as an intervention has not been evaluated in this population. This paper describes o...