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Anastasia Perikkou<\/a>, Eleni Kokkinou<\/a>, Costas A. Anastasiou<\/a>, Mary Yiannakoulia <\/a><\/p>\n [\/authors]<\/p>\n [summary]<\/p>\n Objective: Aim of the study was to evaluate a school-based novel approach for increasing children\u2019s fruit consumption.<\/p>\n Methods: In this study, 218 pupils (9-year old) from Cyprus were randomly assigned into two 1-year intervention groups, namely the Educational Material (EDUC) (N=59; weekly educational programme for increasing awareness and improving skills regarding fruit preparation\/consumption) and the Exposure group (EXPO) (N=67; exposure of children to the consumption of a fruit on a daily basis by their teacher), or a Control group (N=58; no intervention). Children\u2019s dietary intake was assessed through 2-day dietary records before (October 2008) and at the end of the intervention (June 2009).<\/p>\n Results: Significant higher daily fruit intake was reported by the children in the EXPO and the EDUC groups compared to the Control group at the end of the intervention (P<0.001).\n\nConclusion: Both exposure to daily fruit consumption by the school teacher and \u201ctraditional\u201d educational approaches may be effective ways for improving fruit intake of children.\n\n[\/summary]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aim of the study was to evaluate a school-based novel approach for increasing children\u2019s fruit consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[316],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}