FDNS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nutrition Education, Eval, List Of Fables Characters

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: FDNS 2100
• Professor: Paige Berger

Document Summary

Process by which beliefs, attitudes, environmental influences, and understanding about food lead to practices that are scientifically sound, practical, and consistent with individual needs and available food resources. Planned change designed to improve the nutritional well-being of individuals, groups, or pops. Involves empowering individuals with information, skills, opps, or motivation to achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles. Food behavior, food habits, eating habits, eating behavior, eating patterns, dietary patters, behavior, meal plans, etc. Education results in behavior change: knowledge behavior. Often some basic knowledge is required for behavior change. Many other factors are involved in the adoption of changed behavior. Ex: self-efficacy, social support, attitudes, skills, built environmental factors, food availability, health benefits, motivation. Behavior change is difficult and usually requires long-term, targeted, evidence-based interventions. Action pack families is a nutrition and physical activity intervention for kids in grades 3-5 and their families. Children from low-income households in rural areas are more likely to be obese.