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The Impact Of Nutrition Education On The Dietary Habits Of Female
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1.1 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Poor
nutritional choices and practices have been shown to increase during
adolescence; the need for nutrition education becomes clear. It is
important that health educators look into nutrition education and its
impact on the dietary habits of adolescent females. Several studies have
been conducted that show how nutrition education impacts the dietary
habits of adolescents.
These studies have reviewed the effect of
nutrition education on adolescent athletes and have analyzed how
nutrition education impacts snack patterns.
The main nutritional
problems affecting adolescent populations in particular include
under-nutrition in terms of stunning and wasting. Others are
deficiencies of micronutrients such as iron and vitamin a, obesity and
other specific nutrient deficiencies (Kurz and Johnson-Welch, 1994).
Adolescents
because they are still growing, who enter into marriage with poor
nutritional status are likely to give birth to smaller infants than
mature women of the same nutritional status (WHO, 1995) because of the
competition for nutrients between the growing adolescent and the growing
fetus (Scholl et al, 1990) andpoorer placental function (Colson, 1987).
Undernourished adolescent girls and women give birth to underweight and
often stunned babies. These infants are less able to learn as young
children and are more likely themselves to be parents to infants with
intrauterine growth.
Retardation and low birth weight. However, they
are less able to generate livelihoods and are less equipped to resist
chronic diseases in later life. Such lifecycle and intergenerational
links demand sustained, long term ameliorative action (ACC/SCN, 2000)
which this study aims to provide.
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
To assess the impact of nutrition education on the nutritional intake of female secondary school students.
To educate adolescent girls about sources of nutrient and balance diet.
To help improve the eating habits of adolescent girls.
To serve as a guide to nutrition educators and dieticians
To recommend nutrition education as part of the curriculum of secondary school in Nigeria.
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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---
