The goals of many nutrition programs are to instill healthy and sustainable eating habits
among young individuals. Since food association learning has been identified as a more effective approach, we study its potential impact through use of mathematical models. Two
models were developed in order to study eating behavior learning and the resulting diet
dynamics of young individuals. The first model considered the case when there is no food
association learning program and the second incorporated food association and food preference learning. Results of Model 1 indicate that some nutrition program at schools are better than none at all. If effective, or p large enough, then the food association learning program is a potential impactful strategy at reducing the proportion of L-eaters shown by the results of Model 2. These results demonstrates the importance of nutrition education curriculum, learning, and socialization in schools. However, more work is needed to understand how to create and implement an effective program so that it incorporates the culture, norms, and values of the community, supporting the conclusions of other studies . Future work would more effectively incorporate data from the literature. The parameter values we chose (see Tables 1 and 2) were qualitatively estimated based on observations from this pilot study and the literature but more work is needed to quantify these values