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Sustainable Food Education: What Food Preparation Competences Are Needed to Support Vegetable Consumption?
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Huyard, Caroline – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Contributing to more sustainable diets is a major challenge for contemporary environmental education. It implies an increase in the share of plant-based foods and of home-cooked meals. Awareness of this is widespread but taking concrete action is not easy. What competences does it call for? To identify them, we proposed an 8-month training course…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Sustainable Development, Dietetics, Eating Habits
Nudging in Public Health Lifestyle Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review and Metasynthesis
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Ledderer, Loni; Kjaer, Marianne; Madsen, Emilie Kirstine; Busch, Jacob; Fage-Butler, Antoinette – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Nudging is increasingly used in public health interventions in Western societies to produced health-promoting behavior changes; however, there is lack of clarity as to what constitutes a nudge, scant knowledge of the effectiveness of nudging techniques in public health lifestyle interventions and a number of ethical and value-based concerns. The…
Descriptors: Public Health, Intervention, Health Behavior, Behavior Change
An Educational Resource Based on Water and Health as a Teaching Aid in French Primary Schools Part I: Identification of Needs and Content
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Savanovitch, Chantal; Sauvant-Rochat, Marie-Pierre – Education Sciences, 2013
It is a commonplace that water is essential for life, but to what extent is the general public, and children in particular, aware of how water affects health? The aim of this review was to consider the relationship between water and health under three main headings: the importance of hydration for children, dietary intake of water, and water as an…
Descriptors: Water, Teaching Methods, Dietetics, Hygiene
"Laicite" in Practice: The Representations of French Teenagers
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Massignon, Berengere – British Journal of Religious Education, 2011
Focusing on the results of the REDCo (Religion in Education: a Contribution to Dialogue or a Factor of Conflict in Transforming Societies of European Countries) research, this publication sets out how French pupils conceive of "laicite", both generally and in school. It also explores pupils' perceptions of the 2004 law banning the…
Descriptors: State Schools, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
Sex and Cultural Differences in the Acceptance of Functional Foods: A Comparison of American, Canadian, and French College Students
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Kolodinsky, Jane; Labrecque, JoAnne; Doyon, Maurice; Reynolds, Travis; Oble, Frederic; Bellavance, Francois; Marquis, Marie – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: "Functional foods" (FF)--foods containing nutritional supplements in addition to natural nutrients--have an increasing presence in the marketplace. Expanding on previous research, the authors investigated college students' acceptance of FF. Participants: In September-March 2004, 811 undergraduates in Canada, the United States,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Food
Want Fewer Fries with that?
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Rozin, Paul; Geier, Andrew B. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
In this article, the authors discuss obesity and the differences in the eating behaviors between Americans and French people. In the last decade or so, a number of psychologists, nutritionists, and physiologists have come to the conclusion that, in the developed world, increasing obesity can be attributed primarily to the environment in which…
Descriptors: Public Health, Dietetics, Eating Habits, Cultural Differences