Nutrition Conference 2009
Penn State's Department of Nutritional Sciences is pleased to offer this one-day conference. Plan now to join our great lineup of speakers, who will tackle some of the issues we all face in policy development and communication in nutrition education.
- Learn how nutrition education can be designed to facilitate healthful choices, as well as supportive environments and policy
- Understand how issues related to literacy and health literacy impact nutrition education
- Explore the process and challenges in establishing Dietary Reference Intakes
- Hear about policies, programs, and challenges in the Pennsylvania Child Nutrition Programs
- Examine current school wellness policies and implications for the future
- Earn 6 ADA or PSNA continuing education units
The conference welcomes health educators, dietitians, nurses, nutrition researchers, Cooperative Extension educators, and many other health professionals interested in nutrition education.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this program, the participants should be able to:
- explain the importance of DRIs for framing nutrition policy at national, state, and local levels
- discuss the strengths and weaknesses in the process of establishing the DRIs
- describe federal child nutrition program requirements
- identify opportunities to support child nutrition programs with creating healthier environments and children
- state the key components of effective nutrition education
- describe a systematic process for designing nutrition education
- describe the evolution of local wellness policies in Pennsylvania schools
- identify policy goals enacted by Pennsylvania schools
- assess current local wellness policy implementation efforts in Pennsylvania schools
- describe the scope of literacy and English language issues in the United States and its effect on the health literacy of the population
- explain evidence-based methods to ensure accurate comprehension of health messages, especially among adults with literacy or English language issues
- use basic health literacy techniques to simplify nutrition messages
- evaluate the literacy level and clarity of nutrition messages
