Effectiveness of Nutrition Education Using Nutrition Card on Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Choosing Snack Food among Elementary School Children. The safety of snack food for elementary school children is a major problem that becomes public attention. Nutrition education using attractive media such as nutrition cards is needed to improve children's knowledge and behavior on consuming a healthy snack. The purpose of this study was to identify the effectiveness of nutrition education using nutrition cards on increasing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of Elementary School Children. A quasi-experimental of two groups with pretest and posttest study was conducted among 66 elementary school children in Elementary School 154 Citepus Bandung. The intervention was carried out for 3 weeks. The treatment group was given nutrition education using nutrition cards, meanwhile, the control group was given a lecture using powerpoint. Data analysis used in this study was the Wilcoxon test. To identify the effectiveness of increasing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior between the two groups, the Mann Whitney test was used. The results showed an increase in the score of students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior after intervention among the treatment and control group (p-value<0,05). Based on the Mann-Whitney test, there was a significant difference between the increase in students' knowledge scores in the treatment group and the control group, the knowledge score in the treatment group was higher than the control group (p-value<0,05). The increase in students' attitudes and behavior scores between the treatment group and the control group was statistically no significant difference (p-value>0,05). Nutrition cards can be used as attractive media to increase children's knowledge and attitude toward choosing healthy snacks.

Anemia pada Ibu Hamil merupakan masalah yang serius di Indonesia, prevalensi anemia pada ibu hamil tahun 2013 sebesar 31,8 % dan pada tahun 2018 meningkat menjadi 48,0 %.  Dampak Anemia pada Ibu Hamil berbahaya bagi Ibu dan juga janin yang dikandung.   Cookies bayam sorgum merupakan inovasi makanan tambahan untuk Ibu Hamil yang mengandung zat besi.  Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuat produk pangan lokal yang kaya akan zat besi sebagai makanan tambahan bagi Ibu Hamil dengan Anemia.  Pada penelitian ini dibuat tiga formula imbangan bayam hijau berbanding tepung sorgum, formula 1 (10:90%), formula 2 (20%:80%), formula 3 (30%:70%).  Uji hedonik dilakukan pada 30 subjek panelis Ibu Hamil untuk melihat tingkat kesukaan pada aspek warna, aroma, rasa dan tekstur.  Kandungan zat gizi makro, serat pangan dan zat besi diukur dengan metode Spektrofotometri Serapan Atom (SSA).  Ada pengaruh imbangan bayam dan tepung sorgum terhadap warna, aroma, dan rasa cookies bayam sorgum (p=0.000). Cookies formula 1 merupakan cookies dengan tingkat kesukaan terbaik dan memenuhi syarat SNI dari Cookies.  Kandungan zat gizi cookies bayam sorgum formula 1 per 100 g adalah energi 459.6 kkal, karbohidrat 70.53 g,  kadar protein 10.3 g, kadar lemak 17.07 g, kadar serat pangan 10.33, dan kadar zat besi 2.51 mg.  Cookies bayam sorgum dapat menjadi alternatif makanan tambahan bagi ibu hamil.

Dietary diversity refers to an increase in the variety of foods across and within food groups capable of ensuring adequate intake to promote a good nutritional status. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of food diversity with the nutritional status of children under five in Kelurahan Pasirkaliki Kota Cimahi. A cross-sectional study with a simple random sampling method was conducted among 79 households having under five age children. Individual food diversity was measured using a dietary diversity score through questionnaire from FANTA Dietary Diversity Score Indicator Guide. Nutritional status of children under five measured by anthropometric measurement with indicator z-score of WHZ, WAZ, and HAZ. The analysis was carried out by Chi square test and fisher's exact. The average age of children under five is 31 months consisting of 43 boys (54.4%) and 36 (45.6%) girls. The prevalence of wasting children was 3.8%, stunting 21.5%, and underweight 10.1%. As many as 56 (70.9%) children consume diverse foods. There is no relationship between food diversity with nutritional status (p>0.05). Consumption of diverse food with appropriate amount of food portions are recommended for children under five years to get optimal nutritional status.

Karate is a form of martial art that rely on strength, speed, agility, accuracy and breathing so that the athletes are required to have a good lung and heart endurance to have an optimum performance in training/competing. Ambon banana is one of the energy source used to increase endurance for the athletes because it provides carbohydrate and potassium which help the energy metabolism. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Ambon banana on the lung and heart endurance of the Karate athletes at STKIP Pasundan Cimahi. The research design used in this study is  pre-experimental design (pre and post test one group) with the sampling design using purposive sampling. Two hours before the Balke testing, a total of 18 subjects were given 150 g of banana Ambon. The result of this study showed that there was an effect of banana Ambon on lung and heart endurance (p<0.05). There is a need for a nutritionist to provide informations regarding feeding regimen for athletes who are in accordance with their needs to achieve maximum endurance. Key words: Karate, cardiorespiratory endurance, VO2max, Ambon banana.