When transitioning from high school to college, college students nutrition is highly influenced by peers, accessible inexpensive food, money, culture and education. As students in public health when we think of a nutrition intervention we tend to focus our thoughts on healthy eating habits and limiting fast food. Even though children are highly influential when it comes to dietary behaviors moving away from that target population and focusing on the college population as mentioned by Frances is an excellent idea. Targeting college students will allow us to brainstorm in creativity to create an intervention that will encourage modifiable dietary behaviors. I like the idea of focusing on decreasing soda and or caffeine consumption due to a high prevalence of it in college students. Hence a college population is much more accessible to conduct a focus group with. There are so many things we can do when integrating a nutrition topic with college students.
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