The Impact of Value, Cultural and Integral Based Nutrition Education for Parents and Children

Childhood Nutrition Status of Indonesia is far worse than neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. At the same time there are also problems of over nutrition (overweight) in Indonesia. A panel data of parents and children who are join nutrition education at “Taman Pintar”, Yogjakarta, Indonesia in 2011 and 2012 and it’s control used for this paper. The method analysis is Different and Different

Parents who attend nutrition educational program, their knowledge on necessary nutritional components in the daily child diet higher than parents who do not get the nutrition education, for vegetables significantly increased by 10% and for protein increased by 15%. The psychological, mental, emotional parents’ who attend nutrition education program shows some encouraging and very conducive for holistic development of the child.

Programs tend to increase the frequency of eating 5 times a week vegetables consumption of the child with vegetable consumption very low before the program to 13% and reduced the consumption of fast food. In addition, nutrition education programs also have a positive impact on the development of children in terms of concentration, socialization and cheerfulness.