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- Title
Community-wide youth nutrition education: long-term outcomes of the Minnesota Heart Health Program.
- Authors
Kelder, Steven H.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Lytle, Leslie A.; Klepp, Knut-Inge
- Abstract
The article discusses a research called the Minnesota Heart Health Program (MMHP) that was designed to reduce cardiovascular disease in three intervention communities. An extensive educational program was implemented in three intervention communities. The students in Fargo-Moorhead participated in 5 years of MHHP-sponsored behavioral health programs in school from 1983 to 1987. Males indicated greater knowledge of healthier choices in the intervention community and greater restraint in salting behavior but results are less conclusive for healthy food choices. These results suggest that multiple intervention components such as behavioral education in schools coupled with community-wide health promotion strategies can produce lasting improvement in adolescent knowledge and choices of heart healthy foods.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; HEALTH promotion; PREVENTIVE health services; PREVENTION of heart diseases; STUDENTS; EDUCATIONAL programs; FOOD preferences; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Health Education Research, 1995, Vol 10, Issue 2, p119
- ISSN
0268-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/her/10.2.119-a