A vast number of researchers have investigated the impact nutrition education on children's behavior and attitudes. In most studies, it has been revealed that health balanced a positive effect students' nutritional habits, body structure academic achievement. The aim this study is to determine whether program an attitudes behaviors, sports performance, For purpose, experimental research design ...

The digital games platform NUDGE (NUtritional, Digital Games in Enable) is one of the digital nutritional communication systems within the nutrition research cluster enable. NUDGE aims at changing the nutritional behavior of adolescents using different levels of persuasion. The central platform element is a personalized avatar representing the user’s nutrition and game status as playful feedbac...

The relation between household income, food intake, and nutritional status in less developed countries is examined, and a framework that explicitly relates household behavior patterns with public policy options designed to improve the nutritional status of the rural and urban poor is presented. For rural areas, nutritional and health status depends largely upon the levels of private inputs pro...

Social anthropology at INCAP evolved through a series of stages. The initial work in the 1950s was concerned with finding ways to make INCAP nutritional research more effective. In a second phase, emerging in the 1960s, anthropology examined the nutrition process in the population, especially as it was manifested in child care and feeding, lactation, and population growth and in the relation of...

Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Medical research suggests that nutritional interventions at a young age can influence nutritional behavior and reduce childhood obesity. This paper estimates the impact of one such intervention—Head Start—on childhood overweight and obesity. While Head Start is more commonly known as an educational int...