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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"food knowledge"”.
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GREEN MINDS: KNOWLEDGE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR THE ADOPTION OF A PLANT-BASED DIET IN 3-6 Y.O. CHILDREN
This dissertation deals with how to design new knowledge-based educational programs that can help young (3- to 6-year-old) children in overcoming food neophobia, which is a disposition to reject unfamiliar food even before tasting it (Dovey et al. 2008) and constitutes a major hindrance to the …
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What’s Good: Sharing Food and Meaning-Making Among Commensals
… over an individual’s lifetime in the context of food, meals, and commensality, this research applies a critical phenomenological lens to food-centered life histories centered on the life experiences of childhood, adulthood and the diffusion of food knowledge within a food centric community …
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Bread-making cultures and foodway changes of rural communities in the northern Cederberg, South Africa
Traditional foodways are under threat. Historical factors, such as the legacy effects of profound racial discrimination and the pressures of rapid modernisation, have had severe consequences for the foodways of marginalised populations. The globalised agricultural and food system operates in a …
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Enacting other foodworlds: Affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference
Food scholarship has struggled with what to make of alternative food initiatives (AFIs), both practically and politically. The surge of interest in AFIs in the past few decades has focused on the ways that AFIs might operate independently of capitalist, anonymous and mass-production processes, and …
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A study to evaluate the nutritional habits of year 6 children, before and after a nutrition-based intervention: The CHANGE! (Children's Health, Activity, and Nutrition: Get Educated!) Project.
… the behaviours, habits and attitudes to food of the children and the data collected used to inform the design of the intervention teaching curriculum. It revealed the diversity of the food and eating environments to which the children were exposed. Some of their perceptions about health …
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Examining the Correlates of Adolescent Food and Nutrition Knowledge in London, Ontario
Food literacy is a set of skills and knowledge that are integral to diet. It is common among teenagers to not have basic food literacy skills needed to consume a healthy diet. This exploratory study examined: (1) the current state of food and nutrition knowledge among adolescents in grades 9-12 in …
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Working patterns and food behaviour within the context of family life.
… effect that current working patterns may have on food behaviour (food provision, food consumption and eating patterns) within the home. Increased female employment and long working hours may affect family functioning though little has been done to model any association. There is evidence of less …
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Consumers' subjective and objective knowledge of genetically modified food in a South African context
… developed as a solution to ensure sustainable food production for an ever-increasing world population, especially in developing countries. As such, products such as GM foods are now part of South African consumers' daily lives. Soy and maize are two of the most common GM food crops in South …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
Roots, Yucas, and Moros are all foods that Cubans commonly eat, and these foods are also are imbued with symbolic meaning. Roots are one of the few vegetables present in the typical Cuban diet. And roots represent the powerful first generation Cubans who arrived in the 1960s after Castro first came …
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Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of mothers of young children related to healthy eating: comparing rural and urban perspectives in Nepal.
… Aim: The aim of this thesis was to compare food knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour related to feeding preschool-aged children in rural and urban Nepalese mothers. Objectives: The objectives were to: i. assess the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about nutritious food amongst …