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The purpose of this session is to explore food choices that adolescents make, the settings that they make them in, incentivizing youth to eat healthfully, and innovative ways to monitor their behaviors. Identifying these relationships from a variety of perspectives is important to gain a better understanding of the motivators and barriers to healthy eating faced by adolescents in real world settings. Exploring multiple ways to monitor and motivate adolescent healthy food choice decisions across a variety of contexts (different meals, settings, and health outcomes) is relevant to a wide range of practitioners, researchers and policy makers.

Session Objectives: 1. List 5 unique ways to motivate and monitor the diets of adolescents in school and community settings. 2. Identify the relationships between eating behaviors and other health risk behaviors and environments among youth across various settings.

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing