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The influence of “the body owner's program” on ten-year-olds' food beliefs

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posted on 1985-10-01, 00:00 authored by Tony WorsleyTony Worsley, A J Worsley, W Coonan, M Peters
We measured the food beliefs of 519 South Australian ten-year-olds before and after they took part in a large nutrition and physical education program that was designed to evaluate the effects of either self-monitoring or health-information dissemination, or a combination of these two teaching strategies on large sets of cognitive, behavioral, and biomedical outcome variables. Multivariate analysis of the data revealed that the children's food beliefs could be represented by two mutually independent components: a “healthiness” versus “sweet-fattening” dimension and a sensory-evaluation dimension. These cognitive structures were highly stable during the duration of the study (six months). The greatest change occurred in the beliefs of the self-monitoring plus health-information treatment group. Specifically, at the end of the project these children applied the concept “gives you energy” more appropriately than previously. We discuss the relevance of the findings to nutrition education.

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Journal

Journal of nutrition education

Volume

17

Issue

4

Pagination

147 - 153

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

0022-3182

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1985, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior

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