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Evidence continues to show that lifestyle behaviors can influence the chance of developing disease, such as cancer, even after accounting for other factors such as stress, environment, or smoking. The Health Promotion Research Branch supports individual and community-based intervention research that explores the effect of lifestyle behaviors such as diet, physical activity, obesity/overweight, energy balance, and sun exposure on cancer prevention and control research across the lifespan. Effective strategies to address behavior change of population groups at greater risk for developing select cancers is encouraged.
Contact:
Linda Nebeling, PhD, MPH, RD
nebelinl@mail.nih.gov
Tanya Agurs-Collins, PhD
collinsta@mail.nih.gov
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National Fruit & Vegetable Program - Fruits & Veggies—More Matters
The National Fruit & Vegetable Program is a national partnership to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables by all Americans. Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables every day will promote good health and may help reduce the risk of stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, and some cancers.
The program seeks to do this by increasing public awareness of the importance of eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables every day for better health, providing consumers with specific information about how to include more servings of fruits and vegetables into their daily routines, and increasing the availability of fruits and vegetables at home, school, work, and other places where food is served.
In 1991 a partnership was formed between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Produce for Better Health Foundation. The nutrition program that was created through this partnership was called the 5 A Day for Better Health Program. 5 A Day was one of the nation's largest public/private partnership for nutrition. In October 2005, CDC became lead federal agency and national health authority for the National 5 A Day Program.
In March 2007 5 A Day program became the National Fruit and Vegetable Program and launched a new public health initiative, Fruits & Veggies—More Matters, in order to reflect the new dietary guidelines, which recommend more than 5 servings of fruits and vegetables for some Americans. The National Program is a public private partnership. It is confederation of government, not-for-profit groups and industry working collaboratively and synergistically to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables for improved public health.
Fruits & Veggies — More Matters™ is a dynamic health initiative that consumers will see in stores, online, at home and on packaging. It replaces the existing 5 A Day awareness program and will leverage the 5 A Day heritage and success to further inspire and support consumers to eat more fruits and vegetables, showcasing the unrivaled combination of great taste, nutrition, abundant variety, and various product forms (fresh, frozen, canned, dried, and 100% juice). It also will build upon the body of science that indicates that increased daily consumption of fruits and vegetables may help prevent many chronic diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) are leading this initiative and are in partnership with other health organizations. The goal is to achieve increased daily consumption of fruits and vegetables.
CDC: Fruits & Veggies—More Matters 
Contact
Linda Nebeling PhD, MPH, RD
nebelinl@mail.nih.gov
Behavioral Change Consortium (BCC) Validation Study
NCI Supplemental funding to R0IAG16588, R01HD37368, R01AR45901, R01HL62156, R01HL62158, R01HL64959, R01MH59594, and CDCU48/CCU115807 grants. BCC Sites involved Emory University, Harvard School of Public Health, Illinois Institute of Technology, Oregon Research Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, University of Rhode Island, University of Rochester, and University of South Carolina. Project duration: Begin date October 1, 1999 – End date September 30, 2005. http://www1.od.nih.gov/behaviorchange/.
Contact:
Linda Nebeling, PhD, MPH, RD
nebelinl@mail.nih.gov
Food Attitudes and Behavior (FAB) Survey Project
The purpose of the Food Attitudes and Behaviors (FAB) Survey is to evaluate a variety of factors including knowledge of fruits and vegetable (F/V recommendations), psychosocial factors, as well as other variables that may be related to F/V consumption. Conventional constructs included self-efficacy, barriers, social support, and knowledge of recommendations related to FV consumption. Novel constructs included shopping patterns, taste preferences, views on vegetarianism, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, and environmental food offerings.
FAB Factsheet (pdf)
Contact:
Linda Nebeling, PhD, MPH, RD
nebelinl@mail.nih.gov
Body&Soul
Health Promotion has provided scientific support for program development, including a review of literature and portfolio analysis, and has convened experts in faith-based, community-based research to review the state-of-the-science. Evidence-based research has been used to support dissemination projects in diet and behavior modification and to improve fruit and vegetable consumption in African-American communities. This research has identified feasible nutrition and physical activity interventions, which have successfully been incorporated into the national Body&Soul program. Ongoing efforts through a public-private partnership support the dissemination of Body&Soul nationally. http://www.bodyandsoul.nih.gov.
Decision Making in Eating Behavior
Integrating Perspectives from the Individual, Family, and Environment Meeting Objectives: To discuss the state of research in decision making and examine those areas that can potentially be applied to the field of nutrition, especially in the area of sustaining positive behavior change and to stimulating research interest in this area. Meeting Framework: The meeting is being organized to provide significant audience participation. Each session will include a plenary speaker who will provide an overview of the session topic, followed by presentations by various panelists who will speak on the topic from their unique perspectives. A moderated question and answer session will follow the panelists' presentation to allow full interaction among the speakers.
NIH VideoCast Day one and Day two.
Reports & Publications
The Journal of Nutrition (January 2008, Volume 138, Issue 1). Supplement: The Examination of Two Short Dietary Assessment Methods, within the Context of Multiple Behavioral Change Interventions in Adult Populations.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/vol138/issue1
Resources
AHRQ: Efficacy of Interventions
Integrative Framework for Research in Diet and Communication
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