Components | Contents |
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Classroom nutrition education | Six 30-min nutrition education classes On fortnightly basis Employed simplified “Food Guide Pyramid” and “visual plate model” Module included: An overall food pyramid education Energy balance education A visual plate model An overall whole grain education Source and sampling of wholegrain foods Reading labels |
Twelve-week school delivery of wholegrain foods | Provide opportunities for children to experience and accept wholegrain foods. On daily basis, during school-break time Selected wholegrain food: wholegrain bread, wholegrain ready-to-eat cereals and wholegrain biscuits |
Family involvement | A session of individual diet counselling after the baseline data collection and prior to 12-week intervention Employed simplified “Food Guide Pyramid” and “visual plate model” Parents to increase the availability of wholegrain foods and balanced diet at home Encourage parental role modelling for consuming wholegrain foods and healthy diet Mother was invited to attend an in-depth interview session using a semi-structured telephone interview, at the conclusion of the GReat-Child Trial (9th month), to identify the obstacles they had encounter in increasing the wholegrain consumption |