Download or read book Impact of the HEROS Healthy Eating to Reduce Obesity Through Schools Study on Healthy Food Choices and Obesity Among Middle School Students in Guilford County NC Schools written by Kellie Marie O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The prevalence of overweight among adolescents in the U.S. has increased rapidly over the past two decades. This problem is closely related to poor dietary behaviors. Two preliminary, school-based studies were conducted in Guilford County Schools, which demonstrated that: 1) cafeteria environments do not foster healthy eating, and 2) a milk promotion program is a feasible intervention. These studies provided the rationale for the HEROS (Healthy Eating to Reduce Obesity through Schools) Study. The central hypotheses were that by increasing the availability of fruits, vegetables, and dairy products (FVD) and the awareness of the health benefits of choosing FVD: 1) intake would increase; and 2) the prevalence of obesity would decrease among middle school students. Participants were 489 seventh grade students from six schools (e.g., paired for socioeconomic status and ethnicity). The schools were randomly assigned to control or intervention groups. Intervention components were implemented over 23 weeks. Intervention components included: 1) nutrition education through curriculum, school dinners, and mailing information to families and 2) changes to cafeteria environments to increase the availability and awareness of FVD. Outcome measures were taken pre- and post-intervention and included: 1) estimated FVD intake at school lunch using the O'Connell School Food Diary; 2) estimated overall daily FVD intake using the Youth and Adolescent Food Frequency Questionnaire; and 3) overweight and obesity prevalence using body mass index and triceps skinfold thickness. Analysis of variance and Chi-square analyses were used to test for significant differences between groups at baseline. Change scores were calculated for pre- and post-intervention measures. A general linear model was used to test for intervention effects on these outcome variables. Significance was identified at p
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavioral Impact of a School based Healthy Eating Intervention for At risk Children written by Jacey Ann Greece and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Child health promotion is a salient public health goal. Childhood obesity rates have risen dramatically over the past few decades with more than 20% of youths overweight or obese by the time they enter middle school. Population-based strategies including those delivered through schools are needed to positively impact this trend. The IMOVE program evaluation, a quasi-experimental study involving one intervention and one comparison school, examines the influence of a school-based healthy eating program in a middle school cafeteria serving low-income, racially-diverse adolescents. Study 1 examined the association between the availability of healthy lunch meals (IMOVE meals) in school cafeterias and lunch and snack food purchase patterns of students. The introduction of IMOVE resulted in significantly less participation in purchase of low nutritional quality snack foods from fall to spring term. Students in both schools had similarly high participation in school lunch all year long, suggesting that IMOVE participation was sustainable. Study 2 examined the association between body mass index and purchase of IMOVE and standard school lunch meals in the intervention school. This study also identified sociodemographic predictors of participation in the school lunch program. Students who were overweight or obese had a significantly higher rate of purchase of both types of lunches, but even more so for standard school lunch than for IMOVE meals, compared to students who were not overweight/obese. Other characteristics significantly associated with participation in IMOVE and standard school lunch were nonwhite race, sixth grade, and low-income status. Study 3 examined the association between exposure to IMOVE and total daily food and nutrient intake measured using an abbreviated food screener before and after the intervention. At follow-up, students in the IMOVE school consumed sugary beverages and higher-fat milk offerings less often in their daily diets than students in the comparison school. Efforts to combat childhood obesity through changes in the school food environment have some impact, but require the support of policy action and nutrition education initiatives to be most effective. The IMOVE program proved feasible, acceptable, and sustainable, providing a model upon which to build additional intervention components to more comprehensively impact student wellness.
Download or read book The Link between Nutrition Physical Activity and Academic Achievement written by Sigrid Quendler and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: It has been documented that children from all socioeconomic backgrounds are at risk for poor nutrition and lack of physical activity (PA). On one hand, many children from low-income families are not getting enough to eat each day due to a lack of resources. On the other hand, children from middle and upper income levels consume enough food, but their diets are high in fat, sugar, and sodium, and they do not participate in PA. As a result of this combination, many children today face an increased risk for under-nutrition, obesity, heart disease and other chronic diseases. Finally, educators and health professionals agree that poor diet, eating habits and lack of PA, also affect academic performance. The fact that a hungry child cannot learn has been documented in numerous studies. Indeed, this research has found that even moderate under-nutrition and an immense lack of PA can have lasting effects on children's ability to learn and school performance. Undernourished and untrained children tend to attain lower scores on standardised tests, are more likely to become sick, miss school, and to fall behind in class. Also, hungry children have low energy, are more irritable, and have difficulty concentrating, which interferes with learning. Therefore, school feeding and PA programs were established by several schools and public and private organizations to provide proper nourishment and the possibility of practicing PA. In addition it helps preventing the negative effects of hunger and malnutrition. The School Breakfast Programs was established as a pilot project in 1966 in response to the needs of children arriving at school without having eaten breakfast. Now permanent, breakfast programs help states provide daily breakfast to millions of students in thousands of schools. The positive impact of this program cannot be underestimated. Not only do many teachers report that students are more alert and perform better in class after eating a nutritious breakfast, but published studies also found that breakfast programs are associated with significant improvements in academic functioning among school children. PA programs can substantially improve children s ability to learn and their state of health by making PA a part of their daily lives. Being physically active early in life has many physical, social, and emotional benefits and can lead to a reduced incidence of chronic diseases in adulthood. In addition teachers report [...]
Download or read book Leading Factors of Childhood Obesity written by Alani Jarrett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity is a worldwide epidemic. Because children spend several hours of their day in school, schools are a great place to begin a movement to prevent or decrease childhood obesity. Research shows a positive impact on childhood obesity with increased activity and better nutrition. Some school systems have started to promote healthy living, but many school systems are still lacking. The American Heart Association (2012) states that only 3.8% of elementary schools, 7.9% of middle schools, and 2.1% of high schools provide physical education classes daily. Children in Spokane County elementary schools only receive two 30- minute physical education classes each week, and the food children tend to eat at school is high in sodium and calories and low in nutritional value. In order to improve healthy living in children, schools need to increase the amount of time children spend in physical education, the quality of their school meals, and health education. To do this, everyone in the school system must be on board. Research must be disseminated to school boards and superintendents to get them involved and the children must have active role models to look up to. The intent of this project is to spend a year in several different schools to see if a year of physical and nutritional change will help reduce a child's BMI, which will also decrease their risk of developing a myriad of diseases in the future.
Download or read book School Nutrition and Activity written by Areej Hassan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. This insightful compendium provides valuable information and assesses the research foundations behind several school initiatives to help combat the epidemic of obesity in children and adolescents, particularly using
Download or read book The Impact of Participation in the Food Dudes Healthy Eating Program on Dietary Habits in Fourth and Fifth Grade Students in Cache County Utah After One Year written by Amanda B. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescents are not consuming the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables (FV). An overall decrease in diet quality is seen as adolescents get older, with decreases in fruit and vegetable intake and increases in energy dense food intake. The aim of this study was to test whether or not the Food Dudes (FD) healthy eating program helps to prevent decreases in fruit and vegetable intake and increases in energy dense foods during the transition from elementary school into middle school. Past FD studies supported the use of repeated tasting, rewards, and role modeling to encourage children to eat more fruits and vegetables at school with data from studies of young children. A review of available literature on effectiveness of these techniques in adolescents found evidence that the program may also be effective for adolescents. Participants were 4th and 5th graders (n=874) from 6 elementary schools, recruited during the 2011-2012 school year. Treatment group was assigned by school and included a prize condition, a praise condition, and a control. Students were followed into the 2012-2013 school year when the 5th grade cohort entered middle school. During 2012-2013 an additional control group was recruited from three middle schools (n = 154). Results showed short term success at increasing FV intake and that the program had some long term success preventing large drops in FV intake. A small to medium positive correlation was seen between energy dense snack foods and total FV intake (r ranging from.125 to.355, p The results of this study suggest that the FD program may play a role in helping to maintain lunch time FV intake during the transition into middle school. The results for the impact on total FV intake and total diet were less conclusive due to problems in the self-reported data. Future studies on this topic should look for a better method for tracking changes in total FV intake and total diet.
Download or read book The Effect of a Youth Cooking Intervention on Nutrition Knowledge and Healthy Eating Behaviors Among 4th 5th Graders Attending Title 1 Schools written by Ashley B. Walther and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity rates have dramatically increased since the 1980's. This has become major public health concern because children who are overweight or obese are more likely to have obesity-related health issues and are more likely to be overweight or obese as adults. Obesity is also associated with poor dietary habits. Currently, children have dietary patterns that are low in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. In addition, many Americans lack the knowledge on how to prepare healthful meals and because of this there is a lack of a meal preparation knowledge being transferred to children. To help address these issues it has been suggested that there is a need to teach youth not only nutrition knowledge but also basic cooking skills. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of a 12-week afterschool cooking and nutrition club on youth nutrition knowledge, eating behavior and self-efficacy, and cooking attitude and self-efficacy among 4th and 5th grade students attending two Title I elementary schools. A secondary objective was to evaluate the novel healthy plate photo to assess youths' nutrition knowledge. After participating in the WeCook program, 84.1% of youth reported they really liked to cook and 56% reported they could read a recipe by themselves. Youth significantly increased their knowledge about why breakfast is important and healthy snack options. At post-intervention there was a significant increase in the healthy plate photo scores from pre- to post-intervention with 55.1% of youth scoring the maximum score. Finally, mixed results were seen for healthy eating behaviors and self-efficacy. Further research is needed to understand the effects cooking and nutrition programs have on youth participants related to nutrition knowledge, healthy eating behaviors and self-efficacy, and cooking attitude and self-efficacy.
Download or read book Souscriptions pour le monument lever la m moire de David de Pury written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationships Between Food Security Status Dietary Patterns and Overweight in Appalachian Adolescents written by Carolyn Wait and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Rates of childhood overweight and obesity continue to be high, particularly among rural Appalachian children and adolescents. Specific information about current eating behaviors and their relationship to possible economic barriers is necessary to develop interventions and educational programs that will effectively reduce rates of overweight and improve the health of Appalachian children and adolescents. This study aims to elucidate the interrelationships between food security, dietary patterns and overweight among Appalachian adolescents. Students in the ninth grade at participating southeastern Ohio high schools were recruited for this study. Students and their parents or primary caregivers completed surveys and participated in focus groups. All surveys asked for demographic information as well as weight and height, which were used to calculate weight status. Student surveys included the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Food Frequency Questionnaire and the physical activity questions from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Study. Parent surveys included the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module Short Form, used to assess food security status, in addition to questions on income and educational attainment. Separate focus groups for students and parents were conducted to probe participants for their perceptions of healthy weight, healthy diet and barriers to health. Data was collected from eight student-caregiver pairs at three Appalachian Ohio high schools. Overweight and obesity were found to be widespread among both adolescents and adults, although food insecurity was not prevalent in this sample. Overweight in adolescents does not appear to be linked to household food insecurity. Fast food, snack and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption were high among adolescents, while fruit and vegetable consumption was low. In focus groups, lack of time, desire and ability to prepare healthy meals along with the greater availability of unhealthy foods were cited as barriers to consuming a more nutritious diet. Further research is needed to elaborate on these relationships and determine the most promising areas for intervention.
Download or read book The Impact of School Lunch Length on Children s Health written by Rachana R. Bhatt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large number of overweight children in the U.S. has led school administrators and researchers to examine how aspects of the school environment affect children's dietary behavior and health. In addition to consuming nutrient rich food and exercising regularly, nutritionists have suggested that it is important for children to have an adequate amount of time to eat meals. This is because individuals only begin to feel full twenty minutes after they start eating, and as a result, those with a short meal period are more likely to overeat because they do not recognize that they are full within the meal period. This paper examines whether the length of time children are assigned to eat lunch in school has an impact on their nutritional health (as measured by BMI) using data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment-III. A parsimonious OLS specification suggests that a ten minute increase in a child's assigned lunch length significantly decreases the probability of being overweight by 1.83 percentage points and reduces BMI by 0.187 points. These results may be biased if there are unobserved characteristics of children and/or schools which are correlated with lunch length and are predictors of BMI. I address this endogeneity in two ways: First, I include an exhaustive set of controls for schools' nutrition policies and children's diet and exercise behavior that are intended to proxy for these unobserved characteristics. The results indicate a similar impact of lunch length: A 1.86 percentage point decrease in the probability of being overweight and a 0.194 reduction in BMI. Second, I include school fixed effects which control for factors that are common to children attending the same school, and and a 10 minute increase in lunch length predicts a 0.227 point decrease in BMI. Although the identification strategy cannot control for the non-random selection of children into schools, the proximity of these estimates to the initial results suggests that there is indeed a negative impact of short lunch length on health. Moreover, this observed relationship does not seem to be explained by unobserved differences among children and schools with different lunch lengths.
Download or read book Can School Lunch Choices Contribute to the Onset of Childhood Obesity Rates written by Melissa Stroben and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obesity rates in children and adolescents have reached epidemic proportions across the United States. This rise in obesity may be related to decreasing levels of physical activity among school aged children. A second factor may be the negative effects of school lunch programs, a source of much of the daily nutrition for school aged students. The purpose of this study was to examine whether there was a relationship between children's lunch choices, including school lunch, vegetarian alternatives and lunch brought from home, and students' levels of obesity as measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI). Participants in the study included 15 male and 25 female elementary school children aged 9-12 years recruited from two public schools. Each student completed a questionnaire that elicited information about their school lunch choices, their level of physical activity at home and at school, and their food choice preferences at home for breakfast and dinner. The students' height and weight were obtained from the Physical Education teacher at the two participating schools. These data were used to compute a Body Mass Index (BMI) Score for each individual student, which was converted into a BMI percentile-for-age score as a measure of level of obesity. The researcher used descriptive statistics to summarize students' food choices and activity levels. A t-test was also conducted to test whether student gender was a predictor of their BMI score. Finally, a single factor ANOVA analysis was conducted to identify any relationship between the participants' lunch choices and their BMI percentile-for-age scores. The results of these tests were not statistically significant. Results did not indicate a link between students' gender or type of school lunch and their levels of obesity. These findings may have been a result of the number of subjects in the study, the wide range of ages included, the wording of items in the questionnaire, and/or the use of BMI scores as the sole measure of obesity. Since school aged children continue to consume a large portion of their daily nutrition through school lunch programs, further research is needed to identify the links between children's school lunch choices and the rising rates of obesity among America's children.
Download or read book Evaluation of Phase I of the Action Schools BC Healthy Eating Pilot written by Meghan E. Day and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors that Influence Children s Food Choices While at School written by Stephenie S. Hopper and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many children are not getting the recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables and are eating diets too high in fats and sodium. As a result, the rate of obesity has risen dramatically in the last 30 years. Obesity is associated with health related problems and lower school success. It is important for schools, parents, and communities to understand the factors that influence children's food choices while at school to help reverse the trend toward obesity. In this paper, three specific categories of factors are considered that influence children's food choices while at school: school, parental, and personal influences. School influences include competitive foods, cafeteria considerations and school based wellness programs. Family influences include parenting styles, participation in family meals, and modeling of parents' food ideals. Finally, personal influences deal with taste and quality, cost, and appeal of foods offered at school. Each of these factors does have an effect on how children choose their food at school. Knowing how these factors affect children's food choices while at school, stakeholders can more effectively help students make decisions that are more informed."--leaf 4.
Download or read book Evaluation of Phase I of the Action Schools BC Healthy Eating Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: The incidence of childhood obesity and associated risk factors is increasing. Schools are an ideal vehicle for the delivery of obesity prevention programs for children and adolescents. Action Schools! BC - Healthy Eating is a school-based obesity prevention initiative that utilizes an innovative whole-school approach to target fruit and vegetable consumption. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of Action Schools! BC - Healthy Eating in affecting positive change in: 1) students' intake of fruit and vegetables, 2) students' knowledge, attitudes and perceptions regarding fruit and vegetables and 3) students' willingness to try new fruit and vegetables. Methods: Five schools that represented geographic, socioeconomic and size variation were recruited as Action Schools! BC - Healthy Eating intervention schools. A second set of five schools were selected as matched healthy eating usual practice schools. Student outcomes were measured at baseline and at 6-month follow-up using the following self report questionnaires: 1) 24-hour recall, 2) Food Frequency Questionnaire, 3) Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Survey, and 4) Food Neophobia Scale for Children. Classroom logs and progress reports were used to assess implementation dose and fidelity. Intervention: Intervention schools established an Action Team and developed an individualized Action Plan addressing healthy eating goals across six Action Zones. Schools received the Action Schools! BC - Healthy Eating resources, a comprehensive training workshop, and ongoing facilitator support throughout the school year. Teachers were asked to implement school-wide activities and to deliver a minimum of 2 healthy eating activities and 1 tasting activity in the classroom per week. Results: Outcomes.- Usual practice schools had significantly higher servings of fruit (p=.0001), total servings of fruit and vegetables (p=.004), variety of fruit and vegetables eaten p = .020), and number of fruit and vegetables tried fr.
Download or read book Examination of the Effectiveness of Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions on Behavior Change and Cardiovascular Risk Among Adolescent Students Participating in a School based Health Program in Michigan written by Elizabeth L. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPORTANCE: Overweight/obesity, dyslipidemia, and elevated blood pressure (BP) are increasingly common among U.S. adolescents and increase risk for development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adulthood. These risk factors are highly influenced by diet and activity levels, both of which are modifiable with appropriate intervention. School-based programs may be an ideal setting for nutrition intervention programs to improve health behaviors, however data examining the effectiveness of such programs is limited, and results have been inconsistent depending on the outcomes examined. OBJECTIVE: Among a sample of adolescents in Michigan participating in Project Healthy Schools (PHS), a multi-component school-based intervention program, the objective of this dissertation is to 1) examine the effectiveness of the PHS program at achieving favorable change in participating students' dietary consumption of foods and/or beverages associated with CVD risk; 2) examine if achievement of optimal consumption of fruits and vegetables, sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) and levels of physical activity (PA) is associated with improvement in blood lipid and BP levels and; 3) determine if change in dietary consumption of foods high in saturated fatty acids (SFA) and trans-fatty acids (TFA) is associated with change in low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) concentrations. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A non-randomized, quasi-experimental pre-post design evaluation of sixth grade students from 94 middle-schools across the state of Michigan enrolled in the first year of a school-based nutrition intervention program between 2005-2019. MEASURES: Measures of dietary intake and PA were collected from a validated health behavior questionnaire administered at baseline and following completion of the 10-week nutrition intervention program. Physiologic outcome measures of a non-fasting lipid profile which included total cholesterol [TC], high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C], triglycerides [TG] and calculated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), as well as systolic and diastolic BP measurements were collected. RESULTS: Intake of fruit and vegetables significantly increased post-intervention, as did consumption of sugary beverages. Students who were more physically active following the PHS intervention had significantly higher post-intervention HDL-C and lower TG levels, whereas students with low SSB intake post-intervention experienced lower post-intervention HDL-C levels compared to students with higher SSB intake. Reduced consumption of high-risk, high fat foods was associated with a significant decrease in mean LDL-C when compared with high consumption at baseline and follow-up. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS: Significant increases in dietary intake of fruit and vegetable consumption following participation in the intervention program were modest. Improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors were also observed. Students who improved their intake of foods high in saturated and trans-fat experienced the largest decreases in LDL-C post-intervention. The results also suggest that PA in this age group may be an effective way to improve HDL-C and TG levels, especially among high-risk students. Future work should examine whether modest changes in dietary consumption and/or PA levels can promote a meaningful shift in physiological measures of cardiovascular risk over a longer period of time.
Download or read book What s Right for Kids written by Julie Allington and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
