Diet change toward eating less meat and more plant foods is advocated for reasons of health, environmental protection, and kindness toward non-human animals. This article is written for people who advocate meat reduction, regardless of whether their audiences are in schools, universities, organizations, or in the general public. However, the…

Background: The educational intervention of this Applied Dissertation consisted of a presentation during which self-selected volunteers were introduced to relevant literature focusing on less known factors causing the disease of obesity and contrasting from behavior. Purpose: The workshop was structured to address the problem statement:…

The purpose of this research was threefold. The first purpose was to conduct a needs assessment for a local school district to obtain additional funding for the nutrition and healthy eating habits unit of the 9th grade Wellness curriculum. The Wellness program consisted of one semester of physical education and one semester of classroom…