They need to know more information about each individual they are trying to help and knowing more about their lives makes it easier to direct them to become healthier. Knowing that they had a positive outcome for the number of women who participated in this goes to show that nutritionists can keep coming up with things like these surveys to get more information about people in low-income areas.
Nutritionists can also try to come up with more ideas to get everyone involved in these types of lessons for everyone to become more education with healthy living. The U. They want to start teaching kids at an early age to look at staying active as something enjoyable, instead of a boring task. Their goals were very straight forward, wanting to increase knowledge and attitudes about regularly exercising, parental encouragement for it, and giving them options to participate in physical activity.
However, the main goal of VERB was to not only increase the number of tweens participating in regular activities, but also maintaining that number. Below is a link to the campaigns website to describe more of what they are all about. Social marketing, much like anything, has many different pros and cons. Having a target audience in social marketing can either make or break your entire campaign. Since it is only limited to a specific group of individuals, it is a disadvantage to others that could be benefitted from it as well.
However, it can relate and cater to the audience that they are directing it towards. Anything trying to relate to the general public may not be effective for a specific person. When something is more related to you exclusively, you are more likely to pay attention to it and be affected by it. Overall, I think this is a very positive technique to use if they are making sure they completely understand the audience they are trying to influence.
Below is an article explaining what social marketing is, when to use it, how it is different, and the planning process of it. Health literacy is defined as being able to get the information you need, as well as comprehending that information. The article I found talks about different ethnic backgrounds having different health literacy. Everyone should be talking to his or her doctors more without being afraid to ask a lot of questions to make sure they are clear on what they need to do.
People with low health literacy have a greater chance of taking medication incorrectly, being hospitalized, getting diseases, and are less likely to use preventative care. The health care system is now working towards how to improve costs, quality, and reducing the amount of mistakes being made. However, I would be interested to hear how the students affected by this program feel.
Many kids enjoy unhealthy foods and would feel upset about it being taken away from them. I remember when I was in middle school, the school removed a vending machine that carried soda. Many of my peers were upset about this. They believed that it should be their choice whether of not they drank soda.
The feelings of the students is one drawback to this program. This seems like a great program! I love that they are trying to change food as a reward.
One of the easiest ways to get children to do something is to bribe them with food. Students who are interested in bein g a part of healthy living promotion at their schools are able to register thro ugh choosemyplate. These students get to work both individually with their peers to teach them ways to eat a healthy diet, and also on a larger scale in demonstrating different ways to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Another part of their job is to manage social media. Additionally, some schools have included links on their campuses health center websites. Each of these sites offers a different way to get the message of a healthy lifestyle to students. The ambassadors are able to set up sites that they think will be best in facilitating information to their student body.
A benefit of having ambassadors that are individual to each school is that they are able monitor which social media site is best for comm unicating with their st udent body. Some schools may respond better to Faceboo k invitations to events, while others tweets about upcoming events is more effective.
Another benefit to using social media to spread information about nutrition, is that many of the social media sites used by the MyPlate on Campus program can be used to promote each other. Links from one social media source can be shared through another source. For example a twitter account is able to tweet a YouTube video for students to see or a Facebook page can sha re a link to a nutrition blog.
This method allows students to access information from multiple sites that they may not be familiar with all in one place. I feel that using social media for the college population is a great idea. College students utilize social media on a daily basis, and have a great grip on how to wok the many social media outlets.
It is also a very easy way to receive information on healthy eating. Additionally, the more students are exposed to the nutritional informatio n these sites have to offer the more familiar they will become with ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Ov erall, I think that the social media aspect of this program is very useful and will have a great impact of the effectiveness of the program. As I was researching Nutrition Education in Legislation I came across quite a few articles about new laws and regulations in schools.
For the most part the articles dealt with public schools, and most had one common goal, preventing childhood obesity.
This act also recommends that Nutrition Education should not stop in the health education classes, but spill over into classes such as math, science, language arts, social sciences, and elective subjects.
This act would be highly beneficial to nutrition educations for several reasons. For one, putting nutrition education specific lessons into class rooms would create jobs for nutritionists around the country. Most importantly this act would educate students and their families about healthy eating and healthy lifestyle. When introducing information like this at a young age sets these children up for healthier lives then those children who do not have this information.
Personally I believe there is a role for nutrient education in policy development to achieve a rational outcome of stopping the childhood obesity epidemic.
There are currently 46 million people enrolled in the program who rely on SNAP. I am aware of the program and believe it is essential for t overall health of less fortunate individuals. Kevin concannon active secretary for food, nutrition, ad consumer services , stood before the House Committee on oversight and Government Reform to provide a testimony in favor of the USDA. After his introduction he addressed the recent incident involving the retailers, SNAP and disclosed all vital details regarding the case.
From my understanding of Mr. The USDA has been fighting with retailers to combat waste, fraud, and abuse. They have partnered with State and county governments, law enforcement bureaus, the Inspector General, and Congress.
The testimony of Mr. Concannan is helpful to those nutrition educators who support the SNAP program because it provides a clearer understanding of the past incident and removes all doubts hey may have about the programs integrity and effectiveness. The information also helps educators by giving them a broader understanding of the program, which allows them to properly disseminate it to individuals who know nothing about the program.
There is in fact a role for nutrition education in policy development. Nutrition education plays the role of persuading congress into passing health legislation for all citizens to benefit from.
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