This article describes a study of a nutrition education program using the school lunch program as a teaching resource involving 63 fourth-grade students. Results of a lunch survey and computer analysis of dietary intake indicates behavioral changes and increased comprehension of principles occur. (Author/SA)

The role of the newly formed Nutrition Coordinating Committee of the Department of Health Education and Welfare, is discussed. The need for nutrition information for consumers is described as well as a need for definitions of nutritional terms. (SA)

Presents the organizing framework used in evaluating the National Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET) and summarizes the descriptive, evaluative, and meta-evaluative findings. Concludes that positive effects on children's nutrition-related knowledge have resulted from different nutrition education programs. (DC)

Reports effects of student instruction with the nutrition education curriculum alone (or with concurrent parent education) on nutrition knowledge, food and nutrition attitudes, and reported food consumption of primary school students (N=352). Higher scores of students with parental involvement support importance of parent education component in…

Describes potential anthropological contributions to two components of nutrition education research: (1) the study of dieting behavior (food habits), and (2) the evaluation of nutrition education activities. (DS)

Reviews, from an anthropological viewpoint, the concept that food is more than nutrients. Discusses human food-related behavior in the context of a great length of time and describes traditional dietary patterns as behavioral adaptations. (DS)

Interviews with two groups of women indicated that attractive packaging was more important than nutrition claims as attention-getting devices in food ads. Authors conclude that the potential to misinterpret nutrition information in food ads exists and that the use of nutrition claims in food ads needs closer controls. (Author/MA)

Reports a survey of New Jersey high schools to determine the status of nutrition education. Results suggest that teachers need new resources and ideas. (Author/SA)

Results of a pilot study are given which suggest that nutrition concepts are learned equally as well with mass media as with direct instruction. (Author/SA)

Reports on the development and evaluation of an inservice nutrition education workshop on fast foods, vegetarianism, weight control, and food exchanges. (DC)

Describes the development and evaluation of a pilot television show on nutrition issues aimed at the general adult audience. (MA)

Presents an updated, selective, annotated bibliography of publications, new periodicals, and scientific research reports in these subject categories: sociocultural factors (nutritional anthropology), environmental factors (biocultural anthropology), biologic factors (physical anthropology), psychologic aspects, food traditions, and implications.…

Determined effectiveness of the Nutrition Education and Training (NET) program in three public elementary schools in upstate New York. Compared data from kindergarten through sixth-grade students (N=530), parents, and food service personnel to similar sample (N=627) in three non-NET schools. Changes in eating habits are discussed. (JM)

Report of an eight-week nutrition education program and a four-month follow-up study. Program directed toward low-income families in a community setting in Louisiana. A change in eating habits four months after the completion of the program was assumed to indicate sustained behavioral change. (LK)

Summarizes the discussions and identified research priorities from a 1980 Workshop on Nutrition Education Research relating to areas of anthropology, communications, psychology, and social psychology. (DS)