Changing food knowledge, food choice, and dietary fiber consumption by using tailored messages

Associations between BMI, social strata and the estimated energy content of foods

“…27,28 Alternatively, the effect could reflect a misperception that is a consequence (rather than a cause) of altered body energy storage and energy regulation signalling. The interaction with social class might point to a socioeducational interpretation rather than a physiological-genetic one, but longitudinal studies would be required to separate between these interpretations.…”

Impact of Socioeconomic and Social Contexts on Youth Perceptions of School Nutrition Policy Development in Lebanon

“…Today's youth live in a media-saturated environment [10,41,42]. Youth of this study reported that all of the mediated approaches (mass and social media) to nutrition and physical activity program deliver are likely to be important elements of the dissemination of the SNP [29,42].…”

“…Combinations of communication channels and mutually supportive and integrated strategies are likely to be more effective and need to be developed and evaluated systematically [25,29,42,43]. Hence, a tailored approach is important to use information elicited from youth to create a message based on their current beliefs, habits, attitudes, knowledge and social structure [35,41,44]. The results confirm that Lebanese youth should be segmented into groups with respect to age, gender, socioeconomic status, beliefs and regional belonging in order to receive efficient tailored messages.…”

Differences in Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Among Low-Income Hispanic and African American Women Caretakers

“…Among children, the relationship between food insecurity and weight gain is unclear. While some studies associate food insecurity with poor weight gain (Elder et al, 2000;Olson, 1999;Townsend, Peerson, Love, Achterbeng & Murphy, 2001), others state that it increases a child's BMI (Auslander, Haire-Joshu, Houston, Williams & Krebill, 2000;Brinberg, Axelson, & Price, 2000;Resnicow et al, 2000).…”