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Direct linkJennifer Utter; Rebecca McRae; Frances Mole; Kaitlin Brennan; Sally McCray – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: The modern Australian diet is largely characterised by too few fruits and vegetables and too many discretionary foods. This is very different to how Indigenous Australians ate prior to colonisation. Native plants and seeds like bush tomatoes, warrigal greens, Kakadu plum and wattleseed are not common features of the contemporary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition Instruction, Food Service, Food
Susan Hill; Margaret Miller; Amanda Devine; Angela Genoni; Elizabeth Wenden; Matthew Byrne – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
School-based nutrition education (NE) has an important role in promoting healthy eating habits and helping prevent chronic diseases--particularly among disadvantaged children and youth who are more likely to experience poor diet quality. However, teachers report being underprepared or time-poor in delivering NE and there is a growing trend for…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Low Income Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Amy Large; Reearna Morgan; Stella Kalas; Katherine Appleton; Roslyn Giglia – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Established healthy eating behaviours in childhood underpin the development of similar patterns into adulthood. School-based nutrition and cooking programs have been found to enhance nutrition and cooking knowledge and cooking self-efficacy. This scoping review examined the literature about the effectiveness of nutrition education programs…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Nutrition Instruction, Teaching Methods, Eating Habits
Download full textBarwood, Donna; Smith, Sandra; Miller, Margaret; Boston, Julie; Masek, Martin; Devine, Amanda – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
The development of healthy eating habits in adolescents is challenging. Resultantly, health educators are turning to digital devices to engage young people in nutrition education. This paper focuses on the development and evaluation of a computer game (Test Game B) to support healthier food choices. Test Game B was developed at an Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eating Habits, Adolescents, Nutrition Instruction
Devine, Amanda; Wallace, Ruth; Lo, Johnny; Miller, Margaret; Sambell, Ros; Costello, Leesa; Lombardi, Karen; Veurink, Samantha – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Building on the success of the SNAC (Supporting Nutrition Australian Childcare) community, a comprehensive online programme SNACPlus provided professional development (PD) and resources to embed nutrition curriculum and supportive food environments in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services. Process and impact evaluation were conducted…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Nutrition Instruction, Food, Intervention
Guelfi, Kym J.; Ong, Ming Jing; Peeling, Peter – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: To examine whether the completion of a course of study relating to preventive health and lifestyle risk factors was associated with alterations in health behaviours. Design: Within-group intervention, repeated-measures design. Setting: Health behaviours of university students studying a course focused on health and well-being. Method:…
Descriptors: Health Education, Course Content, Physical Activity Level, Eating Habits
Farringdon, Fiona; Hands, Beth; Chivers, Paola – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2018
Western Australian adolescents are not adhering to the Australian Dietary Guidelines yet little research has considered what adolescents know about the Healthy Living Pyramid (HLP), the recommended daily serves. Four studies assessed nutrition-related knowledge or influences on food preference. Studies one and two investigated adolescent's…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Jaenke, Rachael L.; Collins, Clare E.; Morgan, Philip J.; Lubans, David R.; Saunders, Kristen L.; Warren, Janet M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine gender differences in the impact of a school garden and nutrition curriculum on fruit and vegetable intake, willingness to taste, and taste ratings in 127 children (11 to 12 years, 54% boys) in regional New South Wales, Australia. Classes were assigned to wait-list control, nutrition education only (NE), or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eating Habits, Gardening, Food
Miller, Judith; Graham, Lorraine; Pennington, Jim – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
Health-related knowledge has been assumed to inform lifestyle choices for school-aged students. A "health-promoting school" provides the conceptual framework for this intervention. A large boarding school developed, implemented and refined a Nutritional Symbol System for their dining hall. The effectiveness of this social marketing…
Descriptors: Life Style, Knowledge Level, Health Behavior, Health Promotion
Pike, Jo; Leahy, Deana – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
Over the past decade the issue of food and in particular, food consumed within schools has come to encapsulate a broad range of concerns regarding children and young people's health and wellbeing. In Australia, the UK and more recently the USA, attempts to ameliorate a range of public health concerns have provided the impetus for an unprecedented…
Descriptors: Public Health, Well Being, Middle Class, Foreign Countries
Pettigrew, Simone; Pescud, Melanie; Donovan, Robert J. – Health Education Journal, 2012
Objective: The present study investigated stakeholders' reactions to the introduction of a traffic light food classification system in primary and secondary school canteens. Design: Interviews and focus groups were conducted with stakeholders approximately 18 months after the introduction of the traffic light system, followed by telephone and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Health Education, Foreign Countries, Classification
Rowe, Fiona; Stewart, Donald; Somerset, Shawn – Health Education, 2010
Purpose: Schools are widely accepted as having the potential to make substantial contributions to promoting healthy eating habits in children and adolescents. This paper aims to present a case study from an Australian school of how a whole-school approach, planned and implemented through a health promoting school framework, can foster improved…
Descriptors: Evidence, Qualitative Research, School Activities, Health Promotion
Shier, Nathan W., Ed.; Torabi, Mohammad R., Ed. – 1997
This monograph presents a collection of articles on nutrition education: "Using the DINE Score To Improve Food Choice Behavior" (Darwin Dennison and Kathryn F. Dennison); "Self-Reported Food Intake Patterns of Older Adults in Australia, China, and the United States" (Alyce D. Fly, Nathan W Shier, Barbara A. Hawkins, Susan J.…
Descriptors: Athletes, Behavior Change, Blacks, Child Health
