background: the high prevalence of obesity among commercial truck drivers may be related to sedentary nature of the job, lack of healthy eating choices, and lack of exercise. there may be a link between obesity and crash risk, therefore an intervention to reduce obesity in this population is needed. objective: to assess feasibility of a 12-week weight loss intervention for truck drivers with a ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of nutrition education at worksite program in male workers. The subjects were 75 male workers who had received nutrition education by a clinical dietitian for 4 months. The anthropometric data, blood pressure and biochemical blood indices were measured before and after nutrition education. Dietary habits and lifestyle were investigated by self...

Preface —O. M. Galal, C. G. Neumann, and J. Hulett ................................................................................ S127 Introduction —E. Pollitt .............................................................................................................................. S131 Children’s healthful eating: From research to practice —A. Worsley .......................................

After World War II, Japan has imported food from other countries to solve malnutrition, and then dietitians provided nutrition education to people for effective food utilization. Flour and skimmed milk imported from the United State were distributed to the school lunch program. Dietitians were trained to encourage the people to adapt western style dietary habits. The western style dietary habit...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition education interventions for diabetes prevention. DESIGN Retrospective cohort design. SETTING Tertiary-care US Veterans' Hospital, July 2007 to July 2012, using pre-existing database. PARTICIPANTS Prediabetic, adult veterans (n = 372), mostly men (94.4%, n = 351). INTERVENTIONS Visits with existing nutrition education classes were collect...

In 1972 The Netherlands' Ministers of Public Health and of Education were strongly advised to formulate a health education policy and to start health education programmes for kindergarten and primary schools. Since then working groups, workshops and conferences were held to formulate objectives for a health-education policy and vast amounts of research money became available to study the conten...

This study was conducted to assess improvements in nutritional status following the application of nutrition education to elderly patients in a long-term care hospital. The study was carried out from January to May 2009, during which a preliminary survey, a pretest, the application of nutrition education, and a post-test were applied in stages. The number of subjects at pretest was 81, and the ...

background: to examine the effect of nutritional education on children’s breakfast patterns methods: a kindergarten based nutrition intervention was started in september 2001 among 8 kindergartens in hefei with a total of 2,012 children aged 4-6 years and their parent pairs. results: monthly nutrition education sessions were held over two semesters in kindergartens part of the intervention arm....