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08 SES 14, A Study Intended for Understanding and Enhancing Primary School Children’s Vegetable Consumption
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Contribution
This study aims to determine the primary school children’s nutrition habits and to see the effects of their experiences with growing vegetables on gaining the habit of balanced diet. The researchers hypothesize that when students work with plants and observe their growth, their vegetable consumption increase significantly. The researchers expect to contribute to increase vegetable consumption and to change students’ food habits, which is based on few vegetables.
Nicklas, Baranowski, Cullen, and Berenson (2001) assert in their studies that children who are overweight tend to remains up to 20 years of age. The prevalence of overweight had increased approximately twofold in the 20-yearperiod from 1974 to 1994. As children’s body weights have increased, so has their consumption of fast foods and soft drinks (St-Onge, Keller and Heymsfield, 2003). In their report about a Garden Pilot Project enhancing fruit and vegetable consumption among children, 4th to 6th grade, Heim, Stang, and Ireland (2009), stated that children who participated in garden-based nutrition education increased their servings of fruits and vegetables.
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References
Mcaleese, J.D. & Rankin, L. L.(2007). Garden-based nutrition education affects fruit and vegetable consumption in sixth-grade adolescents. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Research and Professional Briefs, 107, 662-665. Nicklas, T. A., Baranowski, T., Cullen, K. W. & Berenson, G. (2001). Patterns, Dietary Quality and Obesity. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 20, 6, 599-608 St-Onge, M., Keller, K.L., and Heymsfield, S.B. (2003).Changes in childhood food consumption patterns: a cause for concern in light of increasing body weights. American Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 78, 6, 1068-1073. Vereecken, C.A., Bobelijn, K. & Maes, L. (2005). School food policy at primary and secondary schools in Belgium-Flanders: does it influence young people’s food habits? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 59, 271-277. The Farm to school program for luches. Available at: http://www.suite101.com/content/what-is-the-farm-to-school-program- a147698
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