Category: Publications

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…

Click here to read the full publication! |Abstract| Objectives: To elucidate details about the barriers (time, funding, staffing, and space) to integrating and sustaining school gardens. Methods: A total of 99 school gardeners from 15 states participated in an online survey in June 2017. The 29-item survey contained qualitative and quantitative items that we analyzed using descriptive…

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…