Meet Your Neighbor
University of Oslo, Department of Public Health and Nutrition.
People working in this group: Knut-Inge Klepp, Professor, Principal Investigator; Elling Tufte Bere, Post-Doc Fellow; Mona Bjelland, PhD candidate; Hege Berg Henriksen, Project Manager; Christina Hildonen, PhD candidate; Elisabeth Kvaavik, Post-Doc Fellow; Nanna Lien, Post-Doc Fellow; Germana H. Leyna, PhD candidate; Camilla Sandvik, PhD candidate; Marianne Wind, Post-Doc Fellow; Margarete Wandel, Professor; Lene Frost Andersen, Professor
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Standing, left to right: Arnfinn Helleve, Solveig Uglem, Christina Hildonen, Margareta Wandel, Elling Bere, Knut-Inge Klepp.
Sitting, left to right: Marianne Wind, Nanna Lien, Hege Berg Henriksen, Mona Bjelland
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Where are you or your research group located (Country and institution)?
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
What is something interesting, unique, or unusual about the area in which you live?
Oslo, capital of Norway, is situated at the head of the Oslo Fjord. It is surrounded by beautiful nature areas easily reached within approximately 20 minutes from the city centre. Oslo provides many options for recreation, both in summer and winter (e.g., bathing, cycling, hiking, and of course cross country skiing, a Norwegian invention).
How long have you or your research group been involved with ISBNPA?
Since its inception. Knut-Inge Klepp has served on the Executive Committee since 2002. Elling Bere is a member of the editorial board of the IJBNPA. This year we are hosting the ISBNPA annual meeting, along with colleagues at collaborating Oslo institutions.
Please briefly describe you or your group's research interests or research focus.
Our research program focuses on nutrition and adolescents. Projects investigate dietary habits, factors explaining the observed variation in such habits, and promote healthy eating and improved nutritional status. Research questions relate to the development and consolidation of dietary habits (as a person moves from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood), social inequity and its nutritional implications.
What are your/your group's current projects?
- Promoting Healthy Eating: Evaluating Computer-tailored interventions
- Eurocadet- towards less cancer in Europe http://www.eurocadet.org/
- HEIA: Promoting healthy weight among adolescents
- Oslo Youth Study
- Diet, dietary supplements and dieting-what explains inequalities among adolescents?
- Two projects promoting the intake of fruit and vegetables among school children
What is your/your group's most interesting recent research finding?
We have conducted several studies aimed at promoting increased fruit and vegetable intake among children and young adolescents. A multi component intervention was implemented, allowing us to compare the effects of a paid school fruit subscription programme and a free school fruit subscription programme. Three years after providing fruit and vegetables at school for free, positive effects on the intake of fruit and vegetables were sustained. Results from these studies have had a positive policy impact in Norway, as the government now has introduced a national free school fruit
program starting as of the fall semester of 2007!
Publications that may be of interest to ISBNPA members.
Bere, E., M. B. Veierod, et al. (2007). "Free school fruit - sustained effect three years later." Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 4: 5.
Klepp, K. I., C. Perez-Rodrigo, et al. (2005). "Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption among European schoolchildren: rationale, conceptualization and design of the Pro Children project." Ann Nutr Metab 49(4): 212-20.
Lien N, Kumar BN, Holmboe-Ottesen G, Klepp KI, Wandel M (2007). Assessing social differences in overweight among 15- to 16-year-old ethnic Norwegians from Oslo by register data and adolescent self-reported measures of socio-economic status. Int J Obes. 31(1):30-8.
How can members contact you or your group?
http://www.nutrition.uio.no/forsk/forskere/knuti_klepp.html
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