Effects of maternal employment on family food consumption patterns and children's diets

Article Abstract:

The effects of maternal employment on both the food consumption patterns of family members and on the quality of children's diets in the US are reviewed. Results show that as working mothers devote less time on food preparation and household activities compared to full time housewives, their children eat more meals away from home. Despite this eating pattern, however, research reviewed revealed that the quality of children's diets were found adequate in nutrient value and that maternal employment was not directly related to the quality of diets. The implications of such results to nutrition education are discussed.

Health aspects, Research, Women, Children, Employment, Food habits

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Lettuce Learn

Article Abstract:

Lettuce Learn is a nutrition education assembly presented by the nutritionist of the Fred Hutchinson project and participated in by grades three through eight students in the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. It is a 45 minute game program which tackles and provides informations on healthier food choices and amounts of fat and calories contained in foods. This program may prove effective not only in teaching nutrition and health but also in conveying any kind of educational message among schoolchildren.

Study and teaching, Nutrition extension work

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Mission nutrition

Article Abstract:

Mission Nutrition is an entertaining educational play conceived by the Nutrition Education and Training Coalition, organized by the Vermont Nutrition Education and Training Program. The play teaches about proper nutritionin children in a comical and amusing manner. It was first shown at the Union Elementary School in Montpelier, VT, in Oct. 1991. Since then, however, numerous stagings of the play have been done.

Portrayals, Performances, Children's plays

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