Define nutrition education. Discuss its objectives, principles and scope.
How to lay out the answer. Follow the frame, then write it in your own words.
1 · Open in two lines. Nutrition education is planned learning that helps people voluntarily adopt healthy food habits. Its aim is a change in knowledge, attitude and practice.
2 · Objectives.
Awareness and knowledge.
Change in attitudes and food taboos.
Skills and healthy practices.
Better use of services.
3 · Draw the knowing-to-doing flow. [Flow: awareness → knowledge → attitude → practice → better nutrition]
4 · Principles.
Know the audience; start from felt needs.
Simple, local, correct messages.
Learning by doing and participation.
Repetition, positive approach, evaluation.
5 · Scope. Settings, target groups, content, programmes and the workers involved.
6 · An example. Changing the practice of discarding colostrum through a trusted elder and a demonstration.
7 · In the community. ICDS nutrition and health education for women 15-45, Poshan Maah, school sessions.
8 · Close in one line. Nutrition education succeeds only when people change what they eat, not just what they know.
Scoring tip: Draw the KAP flow and give a principles table; an Indian example (colostrum, iodised salt) makes the answer stand out.
