{"id":70613,"date":"2002-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/ten-state-study-targets-young-adults-nutrition-eating-habits\/"},"modified":"2002-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"ten-state-study-targets-young-adults-nutrition-eating-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/09\/ten-state-study-targets-young-adults-nutrition-eating-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-state study targets young adults\u2019 nutrition, eating habits"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — September 3, 2002 — While most people know the importance of good eating habits to maintaining overall health, it\u2019s increasingly difficult to convince young adults to cut back on pizza and French fries and increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables.
\n\tThat\u2019s why the 溏心vlog免费B站 is launching a nutrition education campaign targeted at 18- to 24-year-olds in conjunction with researchers in nine other states from Maine to Alabama. The study and intervention program will examine the barriers to healthy eating and test a strategy to overcome them. <\/p>\n

\t“Young adults are at an age when they\u2019re developing their own eating habits, and these patterns tend to persist throughout their adult lives,” said Geoffrey Greene, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of food science and nutrition. “It\u2019s important that they develop lifetime habits of eating healthy foods. <\/p>\n

\t“People of this age are also at a point when they\u2019re getting ready to have families. We know that kids eat what their parents eat, not what their pare
\nnts tell them to eat, so parents need to have a healthy diet to ensure that their kids do, too.”
\n\tFunded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the $2 million, four-year project is one of the first major research projects to involve a multi-state team of researchers and community-based educators. Its goal is to increase the fruit and vegetable intake among economically disadvantaged young adults. The Rhode Island component of the study, with additional funding from the Cooperative Research, Education and Extension Service, will focus on 200 young adults in Providence and Pawtucket. <\/p>\n

\tUsing the behavior change model developed by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Cancer Prevention Research Center, the researchers will track how participants think about nutrition and whether they improve their eating habits over the course of the study, based on surveys conducted before, during and after an educational campaign. After the initial surveys, educators will provide newsletters, a magazine and educational phone calls to each participant, each personalized to the participant\u2019s eating habits and beliefs about nutrition. <\/p>\n

\tThe educational materials for the entire 10-state study are being developed by Greene and the staff of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, led by Nutrition Educator Linda Sebelia. Her staff will also be the primary contacts with the participants during the yearlong study. <\/p>\n

For Information: Geoffrey Greene 874-4028, Todd McLeish 874-7892\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — September 3, 2002 — While most people know the importance of good eating habits to maintaining overall health, it\u2019s increasingly difficult to convince young adults to cut back on pizza and French fries and increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables. That\u2019s why the 溏心vlog免费B站 is launching a nutrition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}