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Two nineteenth-century Balinese genres in which the erotic predominates are epic kakawin poetry and tutur (religious manuals) on sexual yoga. The article points to the strong intertextual links between these diverse genres. Through their focus on practical sexual matters and on the pursuit of sexual pleasure as integral to spiritual growth, tutur and kakawin also offer insight into notions of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Bali.

Introduction of a variety of foods to children at an early age is essential because they acquire food preferences while establishing dietary habits during the first six years of life. Food Friends— Making New Foods Fun for Kids™ is a multifaceted awareness and education program designed to encourage preschool-aged children to try new foods, and thus increase food choice and dietary variety. To further enhance this behavior, nutrition education resources are needed aimed at encouraging parents, the secondary audience, to offer new foods to their children at home. The primary objectives of this study were to determine parents' preferences and needs for information and materials to help them offer new foods and to develop a parent component to the Food Friends social marketing campaign. A needs assessment was conducted via telephone interviews with parents ( n = 26). Bilingual taglines and graphics were pretested with parents, Head Start staff, and experts ( n = 306). The end products were a bilingual tagline, a secondary message, a graphic, and educational resources targeted to low-income parents. Formative research, expert advice, and the use of the Social Learning Theory contributed to the development of each of these products. Target audience feedback was essential in the development of this theory-driven, secondary audience component of a nutrition-related social marketing campaign.

Food neophobia, defined as an unwillingness to consume novel and unfamiliar foods is common in young children. Assessment of neophobia or willingness to try new foods can be a challenge with this audience. With the increase in nutrition interventions focused on the young child, valid and reliable measures to assess willingness to try new foods that can be administered in groups by classroom teachers and Extension educators are needed. The Food Friends: Fun with New Foods (FWNF) program aims to increase children's willingness to try new foods in childcare settings. The Tasting Party assessment was developed as the primary tool for measuring the FWNF program's impact. Construct and face validity were established and inter-observer reliability between two researchers and teachers was obtained. Findings indicate the Tasting Party could reliably be used by classroom teachers to accurately observe tasting behaviors in a group of preschool-aged children. This provides a low-cost, low-burden valid and reliable assessment tool, thus enhancing the scalability and reach of nutrition education programs focused on young children. The Tasting Party is adaptable for use in Extension programs such as the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed).

As obesity rates in young children continue to rise, the need for innovative nutrition- and physical activity-focused programs is apparent. With limited preschool obesity prevention efforts, a physical activity program, Food Friends Get Movin' with Mighty Moves™, has been developed to compliment a successful nutrition social marketing campaign, Food Friends®. Building off formative research findings, this article focuses on two other stages of the social marketing process – the strategy development and program development – and how elements of the marketing framework were integrated into the design of Mighty Moves. Input from children, teachers, and early childhood specialists greatly contributed to strategy refinement, solidification of the exchange principle, and program development. This information increased the likelihood that the intervention would affect the desired behavior change or product. Superhero graphics were developed for the program as well as creative and engaging program concepts and materials.

AbstractSchool meals provide nourishment to a large portion of US schoolchildren. Research has examined the relationship between the consumption of school meals and the quality of schoolchildren's diets, with little emphasis on studying spillovers at the household level. Using National Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey data and unconditional quantile regression, we study the relationship between a household's quality of food‐at‐home acquisitions and the number of school meals acquired, subsampling households by their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation status. We do not find strong evidence supporting beneficial spillovers of school meals on a household's quality of food‐at‐home acquisitions.JEL CLASSIFICATIONC31; D12; I14; Q18