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MestreChef Nutritional Game: An Alternative Method to Promote Nutrition Facts Label Reading in Obesity Outreach Activities
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Pamella Mayumi Dias Inamori; Camilo Lellis-Santos – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Reading nutrition facts labels is a competency for which training is given in several nutrition education programs, especially in obesity outreach workshops. The Top Trumps-style card game is commonly used in obesity prevention educational programs to engage participants in reading nutrition facts labels; however, the success of TV cooking shows…
Descriptors: Merchandise Information, Nutrition, Obesity, Outreach Programs
The Promise of Andragogy and Experimental Learning to Improve Teaching of Nutrition Concepts to Culinary Arts Students
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Abdulsalam, N.; Condrasky, M.; Bridges, W.; Havice, P. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2017
This randomized controlled trial compared the effectiveness of traditional lecture (C), face-to-face demonstration (DP), on-line lecture capture (OP), and the combination of the last two (OP+DP) to enhance culinary arts students' application skills related to sodium usage in food preparation. Objectives were to compare relative effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Lecture Method
The FAV-S Pilot Study: Increasing Self-Efficacy and Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Somali Women and Children
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Kehm, Rebecca; Hearst, Mary O.; Sherman, Shelley; Elwell, Kate L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
The 2012 FAV-S pilot study was developed as a dietary intervention program for low-income Somali mothers grounded in the health belief model. The intervention was geared toward increasing fruit and vegetable intake among participants' children. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the impact of the FAV-S program on participants' (1)…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Food, Dietetics, Intervention
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Healthy Cookery Course in Ireland Designed for Adults with Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Bennett, Annemarie E.; Cunningham, Cara – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2014
Adults with an intellectual disability have poorer diets than the general adult population. The "Able 2 Cook 4 Health" cookery course aims to improve the diets of adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability. This study aims to evaluate the course by obtaining the views of course participants and the views of managers hosting the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooking Instruction, Adult Education, Mild Intellectual Disability
"Savoir Fare": Are Cooking Skills a New Morality?
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Coveney, John; Begley, Andrea; Gallegos, Danielle – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
There has been a recent surge of interest in cooking skills in a diverse range of fields, such as health, education and public policy. There appears to be an assumption that cooking skills are in decline and that this is having an adverse impact on individual health and well-being, and family wholesomeness. The problematisation of cooking skills…
Descriptors: Well Being, Public Health, Foreign Countries, Expertise
A Community-Based, Environmental Chronic Disease Prevention Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating Psychosocial Factors and Behaviors in Indigenous Populations in the Canadian Arctic
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Mead, Erin L.; Gittelsohn, Joel; Roache, Cindy; Corriveau, André; Sharma, Sangita – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
Diet-related chronic diseases are highly prevalent among indigenous populations in the Canadian Arctic. A community-based, multi-institutional nutritional and lifestyle intervention--Healthy Foods North--was implemented to improve food-related psychosocial factors and behaviors among Inuit and Inuvialuit in four intervention communities (with two…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Eating Habits, Chronic Illness, Health Promotion