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Easily Digestible: Addressing Food Literacy With Short Educational Videos, Kalle J. Fjeld
Easily Digestible: Addressing Food Literacy With Short Educational Videos, Kalle J. Fjeld
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Food literacy is the knowledge and skills needed to select and prepare food as well as determine food intake. These skills are necessary for a healthy diet, which is a major contributing factor to chronic disease prevention and management. People with diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease can have great benefit from improving diet quality through increasing at-home food preparation and consumption of fruits and vegetables. In partnership with a Food Farmacy pilot program at Hudson Headwaters Health Network in Glens Falls, NY this project sought to use web-based food literacy education for a population of 40 patients with …