Qualitative investigation can provide invaluable information towards understanding the influence of school nutrition education (NE). The study explored teachers’ perceptions of the immediate impact of NE on learners’ eating behaviours. Twenty-four primary school teachers in the Bronkhorstspruit district, Gauteng, South Africa, who taught nutrition topics to grades four to seven learners, partic...

The purpose of this study was to analyze foodservice operation, dietary life education, and nutrition counseling tasks of nutrition teachers and dietitians in elementary, middle, and high schools in Jeju, Korea, and to provide effective ways to implement dietary life education and nutrition counseling in schools. This study surveyed 94 nutrition teachers and 46 dietitians working at elementary,...

background: sufficient intake of fruits and vegetables has been associated with a reduced risk of chronic diseases and body weight management but the exact mechanism is unknown. the world health organisation and food and agriculture of the united nation reports recommend adults to consume at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day excluding starchy vegetables. this review focuses o...

BackgroundNutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. Although nutrition education interventions in Iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. The aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...

Th e purpose of the study was to evaluate the eff icacy and feasibility of using website in biology education. We have explored the World Wide Web as a possible tool for education about health and nutrition. Th e websites were teaching tools for primary school students. Control groups used the traditional educational materials as books or worksheets, and the experimental groups used prepared we...

Background Although physicians are expected to provide dietary counseling for patients with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and obesity, nutrition education in graduate medical education remains limited. Few studies have recently examined nutrition education and dietary counseling practices in Internal Medicine (IM) residency training. Objectiv...

BACKGROUND This study was carried out to compare the effect between nutrition education intervention and non-nutrition education intervention on awareness regarding iron deficiency among schooling adolescents in Tanah Merah, one of rural district in Kelantan, Malaysia. METHODS This study which was started in year 2010 involved 280 respondents (223 girls, 57 boys, age: 16 yr) from schools in T...

background and purpose: eating disorders and abnormal attitudes towards eating in adolescents، especially girls، are among fundamental problems of societies. in order to make useful interventions for detecting eating disorders and attitude change at early stages، an appropriate and capable model is required. therefore، the present study was conducted to determine the effect of freire’s educatio...