Virtual Learning, Telenutrition & eHealth Interventions
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior content includes a focus on education and behavior strategies to effectively impart evidence-based nutrition information in the educational and clinical settings, as well as more broadly to the lay public. Increasingly, transmission of nutrition information requires utilization of technology to reach target audiences.
This themed issue focuses on virtual learning methods, telenutrition, and eHealth/mHealth interventions or delivery mechanisms.
Evaluation of a Synchronous, Online Diabetes Nutrition Education Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives With Type 2 Diabetes: Facilitators and Participants’ Experiences
To explore the overall experiences of key players involved in a culturally adapted, online, synchronous diabetes nutrition education program across 5 reservation tribal and intertribal urban Indian clinics.Reaching Food Retail Customers Through Facebook
Access to healthy food is a primary public health concern that should be considered by those within the field of nutrition education. Less than 10% of adults in Tennessee report consuming sufficient amounts of fruits and vegetables,1 and American families on limited incomes often live in areas in which affordable, healthy foods are harder to find.2,3 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) works with community sites that serve limited resource audiences to reach Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-eligible families, traditionally through direct nutrition education.A Conceptual Model for Mobile Health-enabled Slow Eating Strategies
Ingestive behaviors (IBs) (eg, bites, chews, oral processing, swallows, pauses) have meaningful roles in enhancing satiety, promoting fullness, and decreasing food consumption, and thus may be an underused strategy for obesity prevention and treatment. Limited IB monitoring research has been conducted because of a lack of accurate automated measurement capabilities outside laboratory settings. Self-report methods are used, but they have questionable validity and reliability. This paper aimed to present a conceptual model in which IB, specifically slow eating, supported by technological advancements, contributes to controlling hedonic and homeostatic processes, providing an opportunity to reduce energy intake, and improve health outcomes.
