Nutrition communication from theory to practice: some future perspectives.
'Nutrition communication' can be defined as the process by which nutrition knowledge is converted into dietary change. Nutrition communication then includes nutrition education--the process by which people are informed, and sometimes empowered by, nutrition information--but also other actions taken to improve peoples' diets such as restricting misinformation about nutrition or manipulating the composition, availability or price of foods. Dietary goals for populations and food-based dietary guidelines for individuals constitute the starting point for nutrition communication, and if these could be more evidence-based we would be in a much stronger position to develop more effective nutrition communication. A population-based approach to nutrition communication is complementary to an individualistic approach in theory, but in practice they compete for attention in food policy making circles.
Rayner
M J
MJ
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, UK. mike.rayner@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005544:Forecasting; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D012922:Social Change