An experimental study was conducted to examine the relationship between a nutrition education program and nutrition knowledge and eating behaviors of older adults. Twenty-four sub- 'ects were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control group. brior to any intervention, all subjects completed a demograph. data sheet, a 25-item TrueFalse questionnaire and a 24-Hour Dietary Recall interview. The experimental group attended four one-hour nutrition education classes over a two-week period. Followin 7 the educational intervention, both groups of subjects again comp eted the TrueFalse questionnaire and the 24-Hour Dietary Recall interview. Controlling for pretest, posttest differences on the two dependent variables were tested using repeated measures analysis of variance. No significant differences were found between the two groups.