OBJECTIVE Numerous localities have mandated that chain restaurants post nutrition information at the point of purchase. However, some studies suggest that consumers are not highly responsive to menu labelling. The present qualitative study explored influences on full-service restaurant customers’ noticing and using menu labelling. DESIGN Five focus groups were conducted with thirty-six consum...

Based on the fact that management of nutrition information is still a problem in many developing countries including Tanzania and nutrition information is only verbally provided without emphasis, this study proposes mobile application for enhancing management of nutrition information. The paper discusses the implementation of an integrated mobile application for enhancing management of nutritio...

BACKGROUND This study examined whether peer education based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour is a feasible method to share and disseminate nutrition and feeding information between mothers of babies and toddlers. METHODS The Peer Educator Nutrition Training (PeerENT) study was a feasibility study. Participants were recruited from an existing cohort of mothers of six month to two year olds. ...

The workshop was chaired by Barrie Margetts and attended by about twenty people. The purpose was to share information about the International Committee of The Nutrition Society (ICONS) and the progress of the Information Sheets, and to discuss other ways of supporting overseas members. Barrie outlined the structure and role of ICONS which has taken over the functions of the Task Force on Overse...

The increase in pressures of teaching in tertiary education has led to a need to consider new methods to support the learning experience for students; for example, in a single faculty of a university, a survey has shown that there were 173 different innovations in teaching methods that were being tried and 14% of these involved information technology (Ellington & McIntosh, 1995). Since the deve...

Health Check (HC) was a voluntary nutrition labeling program developed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada as a guide to help consumers choose healthy foods. Items meeting nutrient criteria were identified with a HC symbol. This study examined the impact of the program on differences in consumer awareness and use of nutritional information in restaurants. Exit surveys were conducted wi...

Asian regions have been suffering from growing double burden of nutritional health problems, such as undernutrition and chronic diseases. National nutrition survey plays an essential role in helping to improve both national and global health and reduce health disparities. The aim of this review was to compile and present the information on current national nutrition surveys conducted in Asian c...