The Boss' Healthy Buddies Nutrition Resource Is Effective for Elementary School Students.

The Boss' Healthy Buddies Nutrition Resource Is Effective for Elementary School Students. J Obes. 2018;2018:4659874 Authors: Pittman DW, Bland IR, Cabrera ID, Franck KE, Perkins EL, Schmidt NA, Allen HN, Atkins SR, Pittman SB Abstract Previously we have shown that our Healthy Eating Decisions school-based intervention can influence students' selections of the healthiest foods available in their elementary school cafeterias through positive reinforcement techniques. Although effective, we recognized that students were missing fundamental nutrition knowledge necessary to understand why the Healthy Eating Decisions program identified particular beverages and foods as the healthiest in the cafeteria. Therefore, we developed the Boss' Healthy Buddies nutrition education resource as a freely available curriculum matched with South Carolina education standards and designed for elementary school students from kindergarten through fourth grade. The current study implemented Boss' Healthy Buddies and compared its efficacy to a commercially available nutrition program, CATCH. Elementary school students in Spartanburg, South Carolina, received weekly twenty-minute Boss' Healthy Buddies lessons for eight weeks. Results from preassessment and postassessment surveys were compared with a positive control elementary school using the CATCH program and a negative control school receiving no nutrition education. Results show that Boss' Healthy Buddies w...
Source: Journal of Obesity - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Tags: J Obes Source Type: research