Nutrition Education in Children
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 724
Special Issue Editor
Interests: child health; nutrition education; digital technology; gamification; behaviour change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A lack of satisfactory knowledge on the method by which to choose and prepare foods is one of the main limiting factors for nutritional well-being. We have now reached an era where misinformation and a lack of information make it difficult to identify valid scientific information. Increased nutrition literacy and knowledge are essential in avoiding the potential dramatic deterioration in population health. Nutrition literacy is defined as an individual’s ability to attain, process, and understand nutrition information and as the skills required to make appropriate nutrition decisions, which is a vital component of achieving a healthy diet. Every child has the right to good nutrition and a healthy eating environment that supports life-long food preparation skills and the acquisition of knowledge-based nutritional competence. This Special Issue encourages the submission of original qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies that strengthen our understanding of nutrition education in children.
Dr. Claudia Leong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital literacy
- nutrition literacy
- social media
- children
- nutrition education
- food and nutrition education
- gamification
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