Nutrition education

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Used for

diet education

Broader Terms

health education

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• In the comprehensive school, nutrition education is included in home economics studies, biology and environmental studies and health education studies.
• Food Service Educators Parents Child Care You are here: Home>Healthy Schools>Local Wellness Policy> Policy Requirements>Nutrition Education Goals Healthy Schools Setting Nutrition Education Goals The primary goal of nutrition education is to influence students' eating behaviors.
• Meeting the Millennium Development Goals FAO stresses that nutrition education is a key for developing the skills and motivation needed to eat well, and is especially important in situations where families have limited resources.
• Nutrition education is concerned with modifying social communication to bring about middle or long-term changes in the common behaviour of the population.
• Nutrition education is concentrated within the health curriculum (84 percent), science classes (72 percent), and school health program (68 percent) (Table 1).

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