Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior

“And the Oscar Goes to....” Creating Online Nutrition Education that Captures Imagination and Brings Content to Life

“And the Oscar Goes to....” Creating Online Nutrition Education that Captures Imagination and Brings Content to Life
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Independence E | 
Moderator: Beth Hartell, MS, Peartree Nutrition
Speakers: Carol Brunson Day, PhD, JD Andrews Foundation and Walker Lambert, JD Andrews Foundation
During this session, we will say good-bye to the traditional PowerPoint slides and learn how to recognize and create online education that touches imaginations and inspires action. We will explore how stories can make an online learning environment compelling and effective, which, in turn, leads to confidence and further competence of the learner. We’ll dissect the Healthy Habits Champions program to give an example of this in practice, and through engaging hands-on activities we’ll help the audience grasp these new concepts so they can immediately put them to work in their own personal practices.
Learning Objectives:
Learn how to effectively distill information into key learning points that participants can use with their clients.
Learn how to identify and unpack provocative themes or misconceptions that can draw people in and keep material fresh and relevant.
Discover ways that story-based learning can transform health tips or best practices into action.

Can Community Coaching Enhance Coalitions’ Capacity to Create Healthy Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments for Young Children in Rural Communi...

Can Community Coaching Enhance Coalitions’ Capacity to Create Healthy Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments for Young Children in Rural Communities?: Results and Best Practices from a Seven-State Study
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Independence I | 
Moderator: Amy Mobley, PhD, University of Connecticut
Speakers: Abby Gold, PhD, MPH, RD, North Dakota State University; Amy Mobley, PhD, University of Connecticut; Sandy Procter, PhD, RD, LD; Kansas State University Research & Extension; Carol Smathers, MS, MPH, Ohio State University Extension
Results of mixed-methods analyses from a five-year, quasi-experimental study evaluating whether Community Coaching enhances community capacity to create environments that support healthy eating and physical activity to prevent childhood obesity, and subsequent best practices resources will be presented. Two low-income, rural communities within seven Midwestern states (IN, KS, MI, OH, ND, SD, WI) were randomly assigned as intervention (Community Coaching from a trained coach) or comparison communities. Outcomes were assessed using previously validated instruments (coalition self-assessments, parental perceptions of neighborhood, early childhood and built environments), self-reflections from coaches and staff, ripple effect mapping, and interviews of key stakeholders and coaches.
Learning Objectives:
Identify unique supports and barriers related to efforts of low-income, rural communities to implement strategies across social ecological levels for prevention of childhood obesity.
Define the role of and best practices related to community coaching in building coalition capacity to prevent childhood obesity.
Practice and develop skills using project resources for engaging community health coalitions to build capacity for implementing policy, system, and environment changes.

Portion Guidance: Successes, Challenges and Real-Life Strategies for Nutrition Educators

Portion Guidance: Successes, Challenges and Real-Life Strategies for Nutrition Educators
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Independence E | 
Speaker: Lisa R. Young, PhD, RD, New York University
In a food environment that emphasizes quantity over quality, nutrition educators are continually challenged to find new and innovative strategies that will help consumers choose and consume thoughtful portions. Join us as portion expert Lisa Young, PhD, RD explores the latest research in the area of Portion Guidance and identifies the underlying barriers to consumption of proper portions. Dr. Young will share case studies of successful Portion Guidance initiatives and real-life strategies and tools that can be utilized by the nutrition educators to more effectively counsel on the topic of portions.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the barriers to choosing and consuming thoughtful portions among consumers
Translate current research and guidelines into actionable Portion Guidance strategies to empower consumers to make informed choices
Leverage available resources and tools to effectively communicate and counsel on consuming proper portions
SNEB/SNEBF gratefully acknowledges the underwriting of this activity provided by Nestlé. Acceptance of these resources does not imply endorsement of the donor or its mission, products, or services.

Agricultural Development to Achieve Food Security and Sustainable Food Systems: Global Policies and Best Practices

Agricultural Development to Achieve Food
Security and Sustainable Food Systems: Global Policies and Best Practices
12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | Independence E | 
Moderator: Kathleen Cullinen, PhD, RDN, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, Rutgers University
Speakers: Tatyana El-Kour, MS, RDN, FAND; Kathleen Dietrich, PhD, Food Bus, Inc.; Carmen Byker Shanks, PhD, Montana State University; Luiza Torquato, MS, Federal Council of Nutritionists, Brasília, Brazil
This session will focus on the targets of SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security, and promote sustainable agriculture and SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. In the context of sustainable food systems, the session will particularly highlight 1) what policy commitments and best practices have been made to address food insecurity and malnutrition globally; 2) how multi-sectoral, collaborative partnership can contribute to ease hunger by reducing food waste in the US and other countries; and 3) what aspects researchers and educators need to consider from the perspectives of learners to deliver effective community-based nutrition education programs.
Learning Objectives:
Provide global gender-responsive examples of polices, best practices and multi-sectoral partnerships related to local food systems to avert large-scale future food shortages and to ensure food security and good nutrition for all.
Share information about best practices to reduce and recycle global food waste.
Discuss the role of innovative nutrition education and behavioral approaches to meet targets and indicators of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 12.
Session sponsored by the International Nutrition Education Division.

Incorporating Behavioral Economics into Healthy Food Purchasing Interventions

Incorporating Behavioral Economics into Healthy Food Purchasing Interventions
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Independence E | 
Moderator: Joanne F. Guthrie, PhD, MPH, RD, USDA - Economic Research Service
Speakers: Lisa Mancino, PhD, USDA Economic Research Service; Molly De Marco, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Mihai Niculescu, PhD, New Mexico State University
Behavioral economics suggests innovative strategies for encouraging healthy food purchasing. This session presents new data on SNAP participant food purchasing from USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchases Study (Food APS). It explores how behavioral economics strategies can be used to nudge low-income consumers to make healthy, economical food purchases and the potential for incorporating such strategies into healthy purchasing promotion activities conducted by nutritionists through SNAP-Ed and other programs. Attendees should leave with new ideas for behavioral economics research and practice strategies to promote healthy food purchasing by SNAP participants and other consumers.
Learning Objectives:
Learn what USDA’s new National Household Food Acquisitions and Purchasing Study (Food APS) can tell nutrition researchers and educators about how to design healthy food purchasing interventions.
Understand how behavioral economics-based strategies can be used to encourage healthy purchasing in supermarkets.
Discover what types of healthy purchasing interventions can be conducted with SNAP-Ed funds and how behavioral economics concepts can be used to design and test the effectiveness of healthy purchasing interventions conducted by nutrition educators working with SNAP-Ed and other programs.
Session organized by the Communications Division.

Students Shape School Lunches of Tomorrow

Students Shape School Lunches of Tomorrow
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Constitution Ballroom | 
Moderator: Alicia White, MS, RD, USDA Food and Nutrition Service
Speakers: Alicia White, MS, RD, USDA Food and Nutrition Service; Katie Bark, RD, LN, SNS, Montana Team Nutrition; Carrie Scheidel, MPH, Iowa Department of Education; Nick Drzal, MPH, RD, Michigan Department of Education
The use of Smarter Lunchroom techniques has grown as a promising practice for encouraging healthy choices and reducing food waste in schools. Engaging students in the Smarter Lunchrooms process is now offering additional benefits to the cafeteria makeover. Learn how Team Nutrition Training Grants are supporting innovative youth engagement projects in Montana, Iowa, and Michigan that teach teens about nutrition and food marketing while promoting nutritious choices to other students. Participants will practice using Smarter Lunchrooms techniques and identify ways to provide nutrition education through student involvement and empowerment.
Learning Objectives:
Describe at least three Smarter Lunchroom techniques to improve the sale of fruits and vegetables.
Explain at least three ways to engage students in improving the school cafeteria environment.
Identify at least two ways to measure changes in the school cafeteria or student consumption of fruits and vegetables.
Session organized by the Public Health Nutrition Division.

From School Food to SNAP: Food and Nutrition Policy Perspectives from a Former Insider

From School Food to SNAP: Food and Nutrition Policy Perspectives from a Former Insider
1:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Constitution Ballroom |
Speaker: Kevin Concannon, former Under Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
As the principal federal official overseeing the majority of domestic anti-hunger and nutrition policy and programs for the previous eight years, the former Under Secretary will highlight key accomplishments along with major challenges facing the US during this time, and also the respective roles of state/federal and local government agencies’ interventions designed to address these challenges. Particularly noteworthy are the first major and science-based improvements in school-based meal programs in decades, improvements in the WIC food package and nutrition education, wholesale responses through SNAP to the deepest economic recession in seventy years, issuance of two cycles of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and increased promotion of evidence based strategies in healthier eating and nutrition education.

Oral Abstracts - School Matters in Nutrition on Saturday, July 22

Oral Abstracts - School Matters in Nutrition
9:45 a.m. - 11:15 p.m. | Independence I |
O31 Sarah Misyak, PhD, Eat Smart, Move More in Schools: A Comprehensive Program to Improve the School Food Environment Outside of the NSLP Developed Through a Multi-State Collaboration
O32 Stephanie Rogus, MA, RD, Which School Districts Are Using the Community Eligibility Provision to Offer Free School Meals to All Their Students?
O33 Perrine Nadaud, MS, Formative Research: Key Drivers
Affecting Diet Quality of Home-Packed Lunch in Parents of Young School Children
O34 Natoshia M. Askelson, PhD, MPH, Parent Perceptions of School Breakfast in Three States with Low Participation
O35 Withdrawn
O36 Matthew M. Graziose, MS, School Cafeteria Noise is
Associated with Fruit and Vegetable (FV) Consumption at Lunch Among Elementary School Students

Oral Abstracts - Nutrition in Culturally Diverse Populations on Sunday, July 23

Oral Abstracts - Nutrition in Culturally Diverse Populations
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Independence I 
O49 Mary Murimi, PhD, LDN, RD, Effective Nutrition Interventions for Sustainable Maternal and Child Health: Lessons from the Countries that Achieved Their MDG 4 and 5 Targets
O50 Aliza H. Stark, PhD, RD, Reduction of Geophagic Practices and Nutrition Promotion in Women of Reproductive Age in Rural Kenya: A Pilot Study
O51 Alena Clark, PhD, MPH, RD, Assessing the Self-Efficacy and Barriers of Nutrition Counselors in Providing Nutrition Education in Cameroon, Africa
O52 Ana Florencia Moyeda Carabaza, BS, Factors Associated with Stunting Among 0-23 Months-Old Children in Rural Bangladesh
O53 Carolyn Gunther, PhD. Child Findings from a 10-Week Multi-Component Family Meals Intervention Targeting Underserved Families with Elementary Aged Children
O54 Sara Kohn Rhoades, MS, The Childhood Health, Education, & Wellness (CHEW) Program: Lessons Learned from a Weight Management Program Targeting Childhood Obesity Among Latino Children and their Families

Oral Abstracts - Exploring Food Environments on Saturday, July 22

Oral Abstracts - Exploring Food Environments
9:45 a.m. - 11:15 p.m. | Independence E | 
O25 Carrie Draper, MSW, Building Capacity of the South Carolina SNAP-Ed Program to Implement Policy, Systems, and Environmental Strategies for Healthy Eating and Active Living in Conjunction with Delivery Direct Nutrition Education
O26 Trisha Chakrabarti, MPH, MS, Mandela MarketPlace’s Health and Wealth Net: A Resident-Led, Systems-Based Food Enterprise Model
O27 Vanessa Berthoumieux, BS, Examining the Need for a Healthy Corner Store Intervention
O28 Megan E. Lehnerd, MS, Influencing the Child Shopper with Coupons in Corner Stores: The CHOMPS Pilot Project
O29 Emily Piltch, MPH, BA, BS, Perspectives of Food Shoppers at Convenience Stores in Navajo Nation Food Deserts
O30 Samantha Ramsay, PhD, LDN, RD, Use of the Socioecological Model to Identify Factors of an Obesogenic Environment in Families with Young Children in Mexico