Healthy Eating: Improve Nutrition with SNAP

Development of nutrition education tool: healthy eating index in Thailand.

A healthful diet can reduce major risk factors for chronic diseases. To assess the dietary status of Thais and monitor changes in food consumption patterns, the Healthy Eating Index for Thais (THEI) is developed, an important tool for meeting the nutrition goals and determining people's overall diet quality. This index measures how well the diets of Thai people conform to the recommendations of...

Meeting daily nutrition requirements using the Eating Disorder Healthy Eating Tool

The Eating Disorder Healthy Eating tool was designed for use when delivering education to eating disorder patients on the components of a healthy diet. In previous research presented at the ANZAED conference in 2011, it was shown that 19 of 20 participants (95%) attending Derwent House, the RPA eating disorder day program endorsed the tool as being more effective than a general tool for recover...

Eating competence: nutrition education with the Satter Eating Competence Model.

The Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter) conceptualizes eating competence as having 4 components: eating attitudes, food acceptance, regulation of food intake and body weight, and management of the eating context (including family meals). According to ecSatter competent eaters are confident, comfortable, and flexible with eating and are matter-of-fact and reliable about getting enough to e...

Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

OBJECTIVE To determine public attitudes towards federal spending on nutrition assistance programmes and support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). DESIGN Participants answered survey questions by telephone assessing support for SNAP spending and proposed programme policy changes. SETTING USA SUBJECTS Survey of 3024 adults ...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating