evaluated the meta-analysis (11 were effectiveness of excluded on the cooking sessions grounds that alone, all were methodological and only 5 problems included sessions meant that their which appeared findings could not be comparable to CB. The relied on). The types of authors concluded that interventions evaluated an important by these studies were component of many largely school-based, intervention strategies and 5 combined was giving children learning about the hands on experience of health benefits of fruit preparing and tasting and vegetables with food, but there was no experience ‘hands-on’ separate of in the form of food the interventions preparation and which included this The majority element. targeted parents and/or involved them in intervention delivery alongside teachers and health promotion practitioners. Some included environmental modification involving, for example, changes to the foods provided at school. Some
evaluated the effectiveness of cooking sessions alone, all were and only 5 included sessions which appeared comparable to CB. The authors concluded that an important component of many intervention strategies was giving children hands on experience of preparing and tasting food, but there was no separate of the interventions which included this element. meta-analysis (11 were excluded on the grounds that methodological problems meant that their findings could not be relied on). The types of interventions evaluated by these studies were largely school-based, and 5 combined learning about the health benefits of fruit and vegetables with ‘hands-on’ experience in the form of food preparation and The majority targeted parents and/or involved them in intervention delivery alongside teachers and health promotion practitioners. Some included environmental modification involving, for example, changes to the foods provided at school. Some
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