Author: Burgermaster Lab

Read the full paper on Science Direct! Objective: Social media is a potentially engaging way to support adolescents and young adults in maintaining healthy diets and learning about nutrition. This review identifies interventions that use social media to promote nutrition, examines their content and features, and evaluates the evidence for the use of such platforms…

Read the full paper in the Journal of Nutrition Education & Behavior! |Abstract| Background (Background, Rationale, Prior Research, and/or Theory): People respond differently to behavior change interventions; therefore, behavioral nutrition interventions often have small effect sizes. Precision Behavioral Nutrition aims to leverage information about individuals to make these interventions more effective via personalization. Psychosocial phenotyping describes…

Read the full publication here! |Abstract| Background (Background, Rationale, Prior Research, and/or Theory): The internet and new information technologies have transformed education. Nutrition education is among many postsecondary subjects being taught using online instructional methods. With increasing demand for flexible coursework to prepare nutrition professionals, educators will benefit from a synthesis of what is known about…