Status Report on Nutrition in the News

Stahl, Pat

doi:10.1016/s0002-8223(00)00362-x

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“…A recent study of a Spanish population sample indicated that 32.6 per cent of all boys and 24 per cent of all girls between the ages of 11 and 17 are now overweight 1 . This problem is closely connected to unhealthy eating habits, an issue that has been widely publicized in the local and international media 2,3 . Thus, health professionals and the general population are increasingly recognizing the need to improve eating habits during this vital period 4,5 , which is also the best guarantee of extending healthy eating patterns into adulthood.…”

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Assimilating and following through with nutritional recommendations by adolescents

Pich

Brage

Thomàs

et al. 2010

Health Education Journal

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between knowledge about a healthy diet and the actual food consumption habits of adolescents. Design: A survey of several food-related aspects applied to a representative sample of adolescents. Setting: One thousand, six hundred and sixty three individuals aged 11 to 18 from 40 schools randomly selected from among all the schools in the Balearic Islands. Method: The survey was administered under the supervision of a researcher during the school day. The adolescents were asked about proper eating habits and invited to classify 43 food items as healthy or not healthy. The subjects later reported the frequency with which they consumed these foods, as well as the types of products they consumed between meals. Results: The adolescents in the sample considered the abundant consumption of vegetables, fish and fruit to be the key to a healthy diet and, as of 15 years of age, recognized the need for a balanced, varied diet. They also correctly identified all the healthy foods, whereas typical fast food items, sweets and alcoholic drinks received highly negative ratings. However, only the girls’ lower consumption of unhealthier products was consistent with this knowledge. The consumption of foods such as vegetables and fish by the older subjects even declined, despite their higher dietary ratings. Three-quarters of the subjects also reported that they customarily snack on calorie-rich food with scant nutritional value. Conclusion: While dietary ratings are consistent and seem to be reinforced by the constant messages in favour of the Mediterranean diet aimed at adults, the minimum impact of this knowledge on the subjects’ habits observed in the study poses the need to seek new communicative strategies that are not exclusively based on providing adolescents with more information on proper diet.

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Assimilating and following through with nutritional recommendations by adolescents

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Brage

Thomàs

et al. 2010

Health Education Journal

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“…Before selecting their popular press articles to critique, students were required to read select references articles, such as "Food news blues" by Schmitz (1991), "Confessions of a former women's magazine writer" by Larkin (1993), "Food news can get you dizzy, so know what to swallow" by Kulman (2000), and "Status report on nutrition in the news" by Stahl (2000). In addition, the students completed a worksheet associated with each reference article (worksheets were not submitted for grading).…”

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“…The assignment not only refreshed the students' knowledge of the scientific method, but also gave them a context in which to apply their knowledge. For those students who have not taken a mass media communications course either in high school or college, the assignment exposed them to the guidelines for accurate and responsible reporting (Fineberg andRowe 1998, Greenberg andGraham 2000) and to the "red flags" they should watch out for in popular press articles (Schmitz 1991, Larkin 1993, Kulman 2000, and Stahl 2000.…”

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Sharing our Experiences with Writing‐for‐Learning Techniques in a Large Introductory Course: The Popular Press Critique

Schmidt

Parmer²,

Javenkoski³

2002

J of Food Science Edu

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The Popular Press Critique was a 2-page, out of class writing-for-learning assignment. The purpose of the assignment was to help students learn how to analyze and critically evaluate the validity of published popular press articles in the context of accurate scientific research versus the demands of the mass media. The assignment included a peer evaluation component that provided feedback to the students and exposed them to the perspectives and writing styles of others. Overall, we observed that the assignment helped the students become more critical readers of popular press food science and nutrition news. The peer evaluation component encouraged the students to reflect on and improve their thinking and writing skills. The majority of students reported that they felt the assignment helped them learn how to appropriately interpret popular press articles.

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Position of the American Dietetic Association: Food and Nutrition Misinformation

Wansink

2006

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

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Status Report on Nutrition in the News

Cited by 6 publications

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Assimilating and following through with nutritional recommendations by adolescents

Assimilating and following through with nutritional recommendations by adolescents

Sharing our Experiences with Writing‐for‐Learning Techniques in a Large Introductory Course: The Popular Press Critique

Position of the American Dietetic Association: Food and Nutrition Misinformation

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