Understanding consumer food choices & promotion of healthy and sustainable Mediterranean diet and lifestyle in children and adolescents through behavioural change actions: the DELICIOUS project

Over the last decades, the abandonment of traditional dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, represents an important threat for human health and environmental safeguard. The DELICIOUS project aims to promote healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents by implementing activities and...

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Published in:International journal of food sciences and nutrition 2024-08, Vol.75 (5), p.527-535
Main Authors: Grosso, Giuseppe, Buso, Pablo, Mata, Ana, Abdelkarim, Osama, Aly, Mohamed, Pinilla, Javier, Fernandez, Antonio, Mendez, Ricardo, Alvarez, Alejandro, Valdes, Nuria, Carretero Martinez, Angela, Vieira E Sousa, Francisco, Mauriello, Gianluca, Pistolese, Sara, Beaino, Angelique, McEwen, Carlos Mario, Pons, Juancho, Vázquez-Araújo, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Applications programs
Child
Children
Choice Behavior
Consumer Behavior
Diet
Diet, Healthy
Diet, Mediterranean
Empowerment
Environmental impact
Europe
Exercise
Female
Food Preferences
Health Behavior
Health promotion
Health Promotion - methods
Humans
Life Style
Mobile computing
Schools
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Summary:Over the last decades, the abandonment of traditional dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, represents an important threat for human health and environmental safeguard. The DELICIOUS project aims to promote healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents by implementing activities and tools to increase the adherence to the Mediterranean Diet with an attention to the environmental impacts of the diet. This study protocol describes the DELICIOUS project as a single-arm, uncontrolled behavioural intervention providing formal and non-formal education activities, development of new snacks and recipe reformulation, web/mobile app development, and physical activities to school children and adolescents in five European countries. The project aims to increase awareness of the nutritional benefits and the sustainability aspects of the Mediterranean Diet and to promote consumers' empowerment through an online platform for sustainable and healthy meal planning in the school canteen.
ISSN:0963-7486
1465-3478
1465-3478
DOI:10.1080/09637486.2024.2353065