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Peer reviewedPye, Orrea F. – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1972
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, Health Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAnderson, Judy V.; Cines, Brenda – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1979
Describes a course on food habits during which students studied and applied the basic principles of behavior modification. (MA)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Eating Habits, Food
Download full textNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst. (DHHS/NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1994
This report summarizes expert panel presentations and large and small group discussions focused on identifying educational opportunities as part of a public education effort to prevent obesity. Panel 1 reported on the epidemiology of obesity and cardiovascular disease, including obesity in both children and adults. Panel 2 reported on…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Child Health, Demography, Eating Habits
Direct linkJohnston, Francis E.; Harkavy, Ira; Barg, Frances; Gerber, Danny; Rulf, Jennifer – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2004
The Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI) is a University of Pennsylvania/West Philadelphia schools academically-based community service program that integrates academics, research, and service through service-learning and participatory action research. UNI is based academically within Penn's Department of Anthropology and administratively within the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nutrition, Urban Areas, School Community Relationship
Holmstrom, Engin Inel – 1982
A 2-year project that identified and described characteristics of graduate programs outside schools of public health is briefly summarized. The project also established linkages among professional organizations representing graduates from these programs. Recommendations of the advisory committee, which was composed of representatives from these…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Programs
Peer reviewedBoltvinik, Julio – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Critically evaluates the methodologies used in three recent studies on poverty in Latin America. Maintains that some studies measure the relative nature of nutritional poverty while others record the absolute nature of nutritional poverty (physical survival). Includes a comparative analysis of the studies' results. (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Disadvantaged Environment, Economics, Foreign Countries
