On the right track, but it's not just about empowerment about food!
The Southampton researchers warn: "The public health approach currently used across industrialized
nations (like the UK) of providing women with information about healthy eating seems unlikely to be effective."
They call instead for initiatives to enhance women's sense of empowerment in relation to their food choices by supporting them to identify the barriers they face and to generate their own solutions. These personal empowerment activities need to be accompanied by environmental changes which make it easier for women to make better choices, the Southampton researchers believe. Similar approaches have been used in small communities in Canada, Australia and America where work to increase people's confidence in choosing and cooking healthy foods has been accompanied by improvements in access to fruits and vegetables and local media campaigns to promote the benefit of eating well.Ā
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