... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Nutrition Food waste Children’s eating habits Sustainability Co-designed intervention Researcher Links Climate Challenge Workshop Grant “Sustainable and Healthy Food Environment for Children: the Potential of School Meals...

...Deb Hinchey; Bernice Garnett; Janet Gamble; Lizzy Pope Purpose Teaching about nutrition is a crucial component of high school health education, with the potential to shape students' perceptions about food, weight and bodies and improve health outcomes. Weight-inclusive approaches have demonstrated...

... focus group discussions, thus helped in investigating and understanding of the meaning being ascribed by mothers about their children's daily nutrition intake (Johnson and Christensen, 2004). Qualitative method generally provided insight into mothers' experiences which could not be easily and accurately...

...Huseyin Ates Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of elementary school teachers’ psychological factors on their behavioral intentions for healthy nutrition in their daily life within an extended version of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Design/methodology/approach...

... adults’ and older adolescents’ health literacy. This presents a gap for child-centred studies with younger populations. The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from a qualitative study that explored health literacy, in a nutrition context (i.e. nutrition literacy), from primary school...

...Neha Rathi; Lynn Riddell; Anthony Worsley Purpose School-based nutrition education programmes have the potential to reinforce healthy dietary behaviours in adolescents. The purpose of this paper is to understand the views of secondary school students in Kolkata, India, regarding the food...

... of “associated” risk is a valuable tool to explain children’s fruit and vegetable consumption and preference behaviour and to assist in the development of future health education intervention campaigns. Children New Zealand Fruit and vegetables Schools Risk Nutrition In New Zealand and many other...

...Irene Torres; Venka Simovska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate concerning community participation in school-based health education and health promotion, with regard to food and nutrition. Design/methodology/approach Based on empirical data generated over...

...Dongxu Wang; Donald Stewart; Chun Chang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of a holistic school-based nutrition programme using the health-promoting school (HPS) approach, on teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in relation to nutrition in rural China...

... of physical activity and nutrition. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a Delphi survey technique to collect the opinions of a group (panel) of Finnish experts. A list of learning outcomes was compiled via an extensive literature review of documents from all levels of health education (physical...

...Dongxu Wang; Donald Stewart; Chun Chang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the school-based nutrition programme using the health-promoting school (HPS) framework was effective to improve parents’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviour (KAB) in relation to nutrition in rural Mi...

... trends and patterns. Three coders with experience in focus group methodology and qualitative data analysis all coded the transcripts and achieved consensus on the summary of emerging themes. Focus groups Middle school Nutrition Adolescents Physical activity Socio-Ecological Model...

... emphasized. School has shown to be one of the most promising settings as an arena for learning and formation of life skills. According to a EU White Paper (EU Commission, 2007), schools as “protected environments” offer a good opportunity for local level, health education on nutrition and healthy lifestyles...

... to indicators of school connectedness was the recognition of participants’ common humanity: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Social interaction Health Ethnography Children Relationships Nutrition School health promotion Schools Young people Connectedness Within health...

... used at each university. A detailed description of the recruitment strategies used by each university is found in Table I : © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Health education Nutrition Obesity Health Recruitment Adolescents Eating Methods Community-based participatory...

... of two simple, inexpensive, and sustainable food supplement products. The two products, one bean-sorghum based (bean) and the other a sorghum-based (cereal), were both nutritionally enhanced with energy and micronutrients and culturally acceptable. The products were deemed culturally acceptable because...

...Devin Ellsworth; Jenny Ernst; Anastasia Snelling Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of a nutrition-education intervention delivered at low-income middle schools in Washington, DC in the USA, using a mobile farmers’ market to bring hands-on lessons to schools. The program...

...Nicole Healy; Elana Joram; Oksana Matvienko; Suzanne Woolf; Kimberly Knesting Purpose – There is a growing need for school-based nutritional educational programs that promote healthy eating attitudes without increasing an unhealthy focus on restrictive eating or promoting a poor body image...

... who have poor eating habits in their younger years. The nutritional intake of many Australian children is not in accordance with the national guidelines. The reasons children make the food choices they do are unclear from the literature. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology...

.... Dr Anastasia Snelling can be contacted at: stacey@american.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 To address the obesity epidemic, policy makers have turned their attention to the school environment to promote health. In response to the 2004 WIC and Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act...