Adolescents' Food Attitudes and Behaviors During the School Day

George, Richard J.; McDuffie, Thomas E.

doi:10.1300/j038v14n01_03

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“…Food choices are driven by a combination of individual factors, social influences (networks of family and peers), physical environments (home, school, after-school programs, and neighbourhood) and macro-level environment (cultural, economic and political factors) [35,71,74,77,[80][81][82][83][84]. The term "foodscapes", originally used in geography, encapsulates these interactions well.…”

Section: Food Choices and Foodscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Adolescence is signified by a physical and psychosocial transition, including: changes in cognitive processing; increased autonomy in decision-making and independence; more responsibilities and experimentation; as well as developing a personal identity with different interpersonal influences and support systems [82][83][84][112][113][114]. This period can often come with heightened stress and anxiety levels.…”

Section: Implications For Future Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Childhood is a crucial period of socialization when young people learn and develop many of the consumption values, habits, attitudes, preferences and behaviours that they will carry into adulthood [82,83,112,119,120]. With increasing age these views and habits become increasingly less flexible, so it is an opportune time to cement healthy perspectives on nature and food.…”

Section: Implications For Future Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Section: Food Choices and Foodscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Future Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Future Generationsmentioning

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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“…This way, Popescu, Negrea, and Voinea [73] explain the predilection of the new consumer for giving absolute value to sensory characteristics in selecting food and neglecting, or even disregarding the nutritional value. Moreover, George and McDuffie [74], investigating the main factors in the orientation of the food selection decision in the young, report that taste is the decisive characteristic.…”

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Research on Food Behavior in Romania from the Perspective of Supporting Healthy Eating Habits

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Today’s human society provides to food consumers many options that involve difficult decisions. Disoriented and stressed by contradictory messages of mass media and by the warnings of being as slim as possible, a modern consumer gets confused and shows a tendency towards losing his traditional habits. Still, most experts suggest that the adoption of a healthy food behavior, based on minimally processed natural products, may contribute to the development of a sustainable food system. The study aims to design the food profile of Romanian consumers by presenting the underlying factors of a balanced diet. The conducted marketing study was of quantitative nature, in which, a face-to-face survey was used. The questionnaire was applied to individuals aged over 18 years old, and the tool used for collecting data was the structured questionnaire applied to a sample of 1185 Romanian respondents. In this study, the following methods of analysis were used: factor analysis, cluster analysis, and structural equation modeling. The research results present the main aspects underlying the food products classification, the clustering of Romanian consumers by their interest in healthy diet, and the relationships between specific variables influencing the healthy food habits. These results have shown the need for supporting educational campaigns targeted at Romanian consumers aimed to develop healthy food habits that could create conditions needed to reshape food supply, and implicitly, to contribute to the development of environmental sustainability.

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“…This nature deficit contributes to the current obesity epidemic in Australia, with 22% and 15% of adolescents being overweight and obese respectively (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016). George and McDuffie (2007) have listed the reasons accepted for the observed obesity epidemic in adolescents as increased television and computer games, the fast-food restaurant boom, media campaigns, increased sugary and fat-laden foods (strategically placed in supermarkets and advertised), schools offering junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages while scaling back physical education classes and recess, working parents having less time to cook or time to supervise/participate in play outdoors, exodus of grocery stores from urban centres (reducing access to affordable fresh fruit and vegetables) and suburban sprawl and crime reducing children's time outdoors. These reasons can be grouped into three broad categories: nature deficit, altered foodscape and community/family connectedness.…”

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Adolescent food environment and wellbeing: understanding attitudes and food choice predictors in different learning environments

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The majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for young people to experience and interact with nature are greatly diminished. With mounting evidence of positive health benefits from interaction with nature, it is feared that this disconnect will have longterm implications for the health and wellbeing of future populations. Adolescence is a particularly crucial period of socialization when young people learn and develop a healthy relationship with food (which is inextricably a part of nature). The connection with food is related to the concept of 'foodscape', which can be defined as the places and spaces where food is acquired, prepared, talked about or some form of meaning is gathered. Historically, research has studied effects of nature connection and foodscapes on wellbeing as separate fields of research, when in reality there are many commonalities between them. Young people represent future households, yet little is understood about their perspectives on, and experiences of, their foodscape, or potential drivers in the nature, food and health nexus. The aims of this research study, therefore, are to identify relationships between nature relatedness, foodscape and perceived wellbeing in adolescents; and how these relationships may be shaped by learning opportunities within the school and home environment. Adolescents from three state high schools with differing foodscapes in South East Queensland, Australia, participated in the study. One school was in a rural area surrounded by large-scale agricultural industry and natural vegetation, and the other two schools were based in nature-poor urban areas, one with agricultural programs offered by the school, and one without. A mixed methods approach was used that included a foodscape assessment, surveys and photovoice. The foodscape assessment provided a novel baseline measure for the three differing foodscapes that adolescents are exposed to. Across all schools, 59 students and potential role models (31 parents and 91 classroom teachers) completed online surveys including measures of food literacy, nature relatedness, wellbeing, healthy eating attitudes, behaviours and decisions. This was complemented by photovoice with thirty-two students who took photographs of what 'food in my life' meant to them and subsequently discussed these images in semi-structured interviews. This research project found significant correlations between adolescent nature relatedness and wellbeing. These correlations occur across all three foodscapes. Most adolescents felt that food connected them with nature; however urban students were less likely than rural students to mention specifically that food comes from nature. Although the food literacy scores were not significantly different between the schools, a divergence became apparent between the rural and urban adolescents in relation to food system awareness. Interestingly, positive healthy eating attitudes and confidence Publications included in this thesis No publications included.

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Adolescents' Food Attitudes and Behaviors During the School Day

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Research on Food Behavior in Romania from the Perspective of Supporting Healthy Eating Habits

Adolescent food environment and wellbeing: understanding attitudes and food choice predictors in different learning environments

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