Nutrition program, healthcare, healthy eating, food, diet, education, Cancer Council Healthy Lunch Box program, NSW Health Crunch&Sip program
The Cancer Council's Healthy Lunch Box program and NSW Health Crunch&Sip program are both focused on promoting healthy eating behaviours, which include consuming fruits and vegetables, among children and their family members in New South Wales, Australia.
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Both initiatives advocate food intake that involves many fruits and vegetables. Cancer Council Healthy Lunch Box aims primarily at making sure that children have some fruits and vegetables in their lunch boxes, meeting the requirement of a balanced diet. This strategy is in line with the dietary intake guidelines, which require greater intake of fruits and vegetables to support overall health and well-being. Similarly, the Crunch&Sip campaign also encourages children to eat fruits and vegetables during snack time in school, replacing sugar-laden snacks and processed foods with healthy foods (Myers et al., 2018). Among the program's goals is encouraging children to snack on fruits and vegetables, which they have to add to their diets, thus reducing the overconsumption of junk foods.
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The evaluation methods used by the Cancer Council Healthy Lunch Box program and the Crunch& Sip programs allow providing considerable information about the results of the nutritious public health initiatives. The Healthy Lunch Box program assessment mainly depended on pre-and post-intervention questionnaires to delineate happenings in fruit and vegetable consumption by participants. With this approach, assessing behaviour modification is being done in a quantitative way, and the impact of the intervention is known through its data (Mihrshahi et al., 2019).
[...] Workbook - Nutrition Program Review I. Activity 1 A. Section Target audience, overview of the nutrition and health behavior-based issues The Cancer Council Healthy Lunch Box program and NSW Health Crunch&Sip program are both focused on promoting healthy eating behaviors, which include consuming fruits and vegetables, among children and their family members in New South Wales, Australia. The target population of the Healthy Lunch Box program run by the Cancer Council is families with primary school children who mostly come from the local place (Cancer Council Healthy Lunch Box, 2019). [...]
[...] Helping families with information and support enables them to make wiser food decisions and keep healthy eating habits (Noy et al., 2019). Nevertheless, the program's only obstacle is the time frame of the intervention that may frustrate its long-term efficiency and encouragement of long-term lifestyle persistence. On the contrary, the Crunch&Sip campaign is more school-based, where healthy snacking is integrated into the daily firm. The approach permits faculty intervention when most of the children's time is spent in school, as they spend virtually all of it there (Myers et al., 2018). [...]
[...] This approach offers the possibility of assessing the execution and effect of the program on children who snack through. The advantages are that this type of evaluation uses both quantitative and qualitative data makes the assessment of the program more comprehensive. Surveys, observations, and interviews make it possible to compile rich information from participants on the processes involved in the projects, the delivery effectiveness and the extent of behavior change (Harris, Brown, 2019). This holistic approach improves the area of study. [...]
[...] The Journal of Nutrition, 150(11), 2859-2873. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022316622023604 Vic Kids Eat Well. (2021). https://www.vickidseatwell.health.vic.gov.au/ Yahia, E. M., García-Solís, P., & Celis, M. E. M. (2019). Contribution of fruits and vegetables to human nutrition and health. In Postharvest physiology and biochemistry of fruits and vegetables (pp. 19-45). Woodhead Publishing. [...]
[...] A., Bell, J. F., Merritt, K. E., Harris, D. M., Young, H. M., & Tancredi, D. J. (2019). Peer reviewed: Effect of a fruit and vegetable prescription program on children's fruit and vegetable consumption. Preventing chronic disease, 16. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6583818/ Schmitt, S. A., Bryant, L. M., Korucu, I., Kirkham, L., Katare, B., & Benjamin, T. (2019). The effects of a nutrition education curriculum on improving young children's fruit and vegetable preferences and nutrition and health knowledge. Public Health Nutrition, 22(1), 28-34. [...]
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