Beth Howard-Pitney|Marilyn A. Winkleby|Cheryl L. Albright|Bonnie Bruce|Stephen P. Fortmann
The Stanford Nutrition Action Program: a dietary fat intervention for low-literacy adults.
Stanford University
study undertaken test effectiveness stanford nutrition action program experimental trial reduce dietary fat intake among lowliteracy lowincome adultstwentyfour paired adult education classes 351 participants 85 women mean age 31 years randomly assigned receive newly developed dietary fat curriculum stanford nutrition action program existing general nutrition curriculum food frequency nutritionrelated data body mass index capillary blood cholesterol collected baseline two postintervention followupsthe stanford nutrition action program classes showed significantly greater net improvements nutrition knowledge 77 attitudes 02 selfefficacy 02 general nutrition classes also showed significantly greater reductions percentage calories total 23 saturated 09 fat significant differences body mass index blood cholesterol positive intervention effects maintained 3 months postinterventionthe stanford nutrition action program curriculum tailored cultural economic learning needs lowliteracy lowincome adults significantly effective achieving fatrelated nutritional changes general nutrition curriculum