Using Field Experiments to Encourage Healthy Eating in Schools

Healthy eating at schools

Public health policies to encourage healthy eating habits: recent perspectives

There is an urgent need to address unhealthy dietary patterns at the population level. Poor diet and physical inactivity are key drivers of the obesity pandemic, and they are among the leading causes of preventable death and disability in nearly every country in the world. As countries grapple with the growing obesity prevalence, many innovative policy options to reduce overeating and improve d...

Policy options to support healthy eating in schools.

OBJECTIVES School nutrition policies offer a promising avenue by which to promote healthy eating and reduce the risk of chronic disease. This article reviews policy components that could support healthy eating, examines their evidence base and suggests directions for future research. METHOD Information was drawn from research and other literature written in English between 1994 and 2008. Guid...

Psychosocial, behavioural, pedagogical, and nutritional proposals about how to encourage eating a healthy breakfast

BACKGROUND Even if more and more evidences have highlighted the importance of breakfast in the growth and development of children, from 10 to 30% of US and European children and adolescents regularly skip breakfast. Thus, there is still a lot to be done before breakfast becomes a daily habit. The aim of this paper is to try and understand how it is possible to overcome the real or imaginary dif...

Enhanced Reflection to Encourage Healthy Living

In this paper, we present the Persuasive Mirror, an example of persuasive technology, created at the Accenture Technology Labs, which aims at encouraging people to keep up a healthy lifestyle. Personal reflection and visual awareness of daily activity are the means used to motivate people to do regular exercise and eat sensibly.