590-P: Nutrition Able—A Lecture-Based Intervention to Increase Childhood Health Literacy of Nutrition Labels in Bexar County

Intro: Nutrition Able aims to teach food scarce Bexar County middle/high school students how to read a nutrition label via lectures at Southside and Southwest ISD. Notably, Southside ISD is a food desert. Methods: Our team gave lectures and administered a pre-survey. Following the pre-survey, a lecture was given. Afterwards, an identical post-survey was administered. The anonymous survey consisted of 7 multiple-choice questions about calories, macronutrients, calories/serving, macronutrient content, fiber, protein, and diabetes/obesity prevention. We collected demographics at the students’ discretion- height, weight, sex, grade, age, and family history of obesity/diabetes (FH). Results: To date, we have reached 432 students from 6th-12th grade. There were improvements in pre-/post-survey scores (2.47 vs. 3.31, P