The Effect of School Dietary Education on Adolescent Fruit and Vegetable Intake

Kwanghun Yeon

Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje, 2019, vol. 42, issue 4

Abstract: In 2010, the Korean government implemented a school dietary education policy to improve people’s dietary habits. This policy included dietary education for adolescents in school. However, its effect on adolescents’ eating habits is unclear. The objective of this study is to examine the effect of school dietary education on adolescents’ fruit and vegetable consumption. We used the thirteenth Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey in 2017. Also, we used the Matching Frontier Method to control the selection bias. The results suggest that school dietary education makes a positive impact on adolescents’ daily consumption of fruits and vegetables recommended. Consuming at least a fruit a day is likely to increase by 2.2%p-4.0%p and consuming vegetables at least three times a day is likely to increase by 1.5%p-2.8%p. These results imply that school dietary education is an effective policy to develop healthy eating habits among adolescents.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.330775

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