Results of the ROTC and Nutrition/Kinesiology (RANK) needs assessment
Abstract
Recent studies show that under 15% of military personnel meet fruit and vegetable intake recommendations and 51% consume energy drinks on a regular basis. Military health surveillance indicates that personnel may not be consuming healthy diets and there is a need for nutrition education. The nutrition information sources that military personnel use are magazines and media- not doctors and dietitians. Military officers feel that there is need to provide nutrition education to young soldiers to start behavior change early in their military career. Most universities have nutrition and exercise science departments and ROTC departments. Students in those programs need supervised practice hours with real people, and ROTC cadets needs nutrition education. So, the purpose was to see if ROTC was interested in, and saw value, in such collaboration and if so what they would want it to look like.
Citation
Cummins, C., & Joyce, J. M. (2022, April 19). Results of the ROTC and Nutrition/Kinesiology (RANK) needs assessment. Poster session presented at the Oklahoma State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Stillwater, OK.