1. Nutritional Education
- Author
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Laidyth, Ida R. and Laidyth, Ida R.
- Subjects
- Obesity--Prevention--Study and teaching, Nutrition--Study and teaching, Health promotion
- Abstract
Nutritional education programs have been implemented in the workplace and in schools in an effort to improve diet and lifestyle, and therefore, reduce the incidence of many chronic diseases linked to overweight and obesity including; diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Providing age-appropriate, culturally sensitive instruction and materials were connected to the success of nutritional education programs. This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in the study of nutritional education and highlights such topics as: nutrition education in the workplace, metabolic syndrome in children, school feeding programs, maternal nutritional education during pregnancy, nutrition and tuberculosis, nutrition education in school-based childhood and adolescent programs, and others.
- Published
- 2010