| Title: | Eat to Row, Eat for Life |
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| Status: | Completed |
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| Topic: | Community;Nutrition / Diet |
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| Funding Source: | Katherine Matthies Foundation, provided to Yale Community Rowing |
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| Funding Period: | 2011-2012 |
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| Study Design: | Pre/post |
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| Purpose: | At the request of the Yale Community Rowing Program, which offers free rowing classes each summer for lower Naugatuck Valley youth aged 10-18 years at the Gilder boathouse in Derby, the PRC and public health interns developed and delivered a pilot version of a nutrition education program to middle school and high school students enrolled in selected rowing classes during the summers of 2011 and 2012. |
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| Further Study Details: | The program, called Eat to Row, Eat for Life, focused on the concept of food as a high-performance fuel, and offered practical tips to choose foods and be physically active. The program was presented by the PRC and/or interns as a PowerPoint and supplemented with hands-on activities and handouts. Students and parents who attended learned how to make healthful food choices using the Nutrition Facts labels and ingredient lists on foods. They also learned how to make better choices at fast food restaurants, how to choose realistic portions rather than “super-sized” portions of food, and how to incorporate physical activity into their everyday lives. We administered a brief pre/post quiz to assess changes in participants nutrition knowledge and food label literacy. |
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| Findings: | The program led to significant gains in nutrition knowledge/food label literacy levels of those who attended. In the summer of 2013, to ensure the program’s long-term sustainability, the PRC created a train-the-trainer model that transferred the role of program delivery to recent graduates of nutrition programs at local universities. |
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| Eligibility: | Middle and high school students attending selected sessions of Yale Community Rowing |
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Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center