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The Impact Of Nutrition Education On The Dietary Habits Of Female
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Nutrition
education is any combination of educational strategies, accompanied by
environmental supports, designed to facilitate voluntary adoption of
food choices and other food- and nutrition- related behaviour conducive
to health and well-being.
Nutrition education is delivered through
multiple venues and involves activities of the individual, community,
and policy levels (Jones and Bartletti, 2007).
This definition has
been adopted by the society for nutrition education and behaviour and
was authored by Dr. Isobel Contento, a leading authority in nutrition
education. The work of nutrition educators takes place in colleges,
universities and schools, government agencies, cooperative extension,
communications and public relations firms, the food industry, voluntary
and service organizations and with other reliable places of nutrition
and health education information.
The American Dietetic Association
(ADA) published a position paper regarding the nutritional needs of
teenagers. This paper stated that the health of adolescents is dependent
on normal dietary intakes and that the provision of foods that contain
adequate energy and nutrients was essential for physical, social and
cognitive growth and development.
Adequate nutrient intake during
adolescence is very important for many reasons. Adolescence is a
particularly unique period of life because it is a time of intense
physical, psychological and cognitive development.
Adolescence is a
transition phase to adulthood. The age of adolescence encapsulates a
window of time when bodies are metamorphosing and evolving into that of
an adult. It is a time when the adolescent tries to establish his own
identify yet desperately seeks to be socially accepted by his peers
(Lulinski, 2001). During adolescence hormonal changes accelerate growth
in height. Growth is faster than at any other time in the individual’s
life except the first year (Brasel, 1982). Increased nutritional needs
at this juncture relate to the fact that adolescents gain up to 50% of
their adult weight, more than 20% of their adult height and 50% of their
adult skeletal mass during this period (Brasel, 1982). The adolescent
therefore face series of serious nutritional challenges which would
impact on this rapid growth spurt as well as their health as adults.
However, the adolescent remain a largely neglected, difficult
to-measure, hard-to-reach population. Consequently, the needs,
particularly those of adolescent girls are often ignored (Kurz and
Johnson-Welch, 1994).
At this developmental stages, protein
requirements maximal. Increased physical activity, combined with poor
eating habit and other considerations, for example, menstruation, oral
contraceptive use and pregnancy contribute to accentuating the potential
risk for adolescents of poor nutrition.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The objective of this study was to explore the impact of nutrition education on the dietary habits of female secondary school students, sixty adolescent girls in the age group of 12-18 years were selected randomly from two (a private and a public) secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Nutrition education improved their mean nutrition knowledge scores significant (p‹0.01) from 11.17=1.42 to 19.16 =1.8 significant increase in average daily intake of all the nutrients ... Continue reading---
