Download or read book School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to describe school food environments and policies in US public schools and how they vary according to school characteristics. METHODS. We analyzed cross-sectional data from the third School Nutrition and Dietary Assessment study by using a nationally representative sample of 395 US public schools in 129 school districts in 38 states. These 2005 data included school reports of foods and beverages offered in the National School Lunch Program and on-site observations, in a subsample of schools, of competitive foods and beverages (those sold in vending machines and a la carte and that are not part of the National School Lunch Program). Seventeen factors were used to characterize school lunches, competitive foods, and other food-related policies and practices. These factors were used to compute the food environment summary score (0 [least healthy] to 17 [most healthy]) of each school. RESULTS. There were vending machines in 17%, 82%, and 97% of elementary, middle, and high schools, respectively, and a la carte items were sold in 71%, 92%, and 93% of schools, respectively. Among secondary schools with vending and a la carte sales, these sources were free of low-nutrient energy-dense foods or beverages in 15% and 21% of middle and high schools, respectively. The food environment summary score was significantly higher (healthier) in the lower grade levels. The summary score was not associated with the percentage of students that was certified for free or reduced-price lunches or the percentage of students that was a racial/ethnic minority. CONCLUSIONS. As children move to higher grade levels, their school food environments become less healthy. The great majority of US secondary schools sell items a la carte in the cafeteria and through vending machines, and these 2 sources often contain low-nutrient, energy-dense foods and beverages, commonly referred to as junk food.

Download or read book Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools written by Committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food choices and eating habits are learned from many sources. The school environment plays a significant role in teaching and modeling health behaviors. For some children, foods consumed at school can provide a major portion of their daily nutrient intake. Foods and beverages consumed at school can come from two major sources: (1) Federally funded programs that include the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), and after-school snacks and (2) competitive sources that include vending machines, "a la carte" sales in the school cafeteria, or school stores and snack bars. Foods and beverages sold at school outside of the federally reimbursable school nutrition programs are referred to as “competitive foods” because they compete with the traditional school lunch as a nutrition source. There are important concerns about the contribution of nutrients and total calories from competitive foods to the daily diets of school-age children and adolescents. Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools offers both reviews and recommendations about appropriate nutrition standards and guidance for the sale, content, and consumption of foods and beverages at school, with attention given to foods and beverages offered in competition with federally reimbursable meals and snacks. It is sure to be an invaluable resource to parents, federal and state government agencies, educators and schools, health care professionals, food manufacturers, industry trade groups, media, and those involved in consumer advocacy.

Download or read book Preventing Childhood Obesity written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of this improvement is due to the reduction of infant and early childhood mortality. Given this trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking developmentâ€"an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. The increased number of obese children throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as one of the most critical public health threats of the 21st-century. Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental, medical, and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence. The book also offers a prevention-oriented action plan that identifies the most promising array of short-term and longer-term interventions, as well as recommendations for the roles and responsibilities of numerous stakeholders in various sectors of society to reduce its future occurrence. Preventing Childhood Obesity explores the underlying causes of this serious health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children and youth.

Download or read book School Food written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in the U.S. spend a significant amount of time in school in what should be a nourishing environment for their minds and bodies. The school environment--its physical, social, and educational surroundings--lays a crucial role in establishing students' life-long habits, beliefs, and attitudes on important issues, including their health. Childhood obesity, with its many related diseases--among them type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and asthma--is one of the most serious health concerns facing children today. Many still believe that obesity is the result of individuals' lack of willpower, or in the case of children, the lack of proper oversight by parents. But public health experts consider it to be the result of living in "toxic" environments in which foods with little or no nutrition are more accessible, affordable, and more heavily marketed, than are foods which would promote health. Therefore, to reduce the prevalence of obesity, the food environments in which children live, learn, and play must be improved. This includes the school food environment. This brief focuses on what can be done, through policy, to create the optimal school food environment in which only nutritious food would be sold or served to children.

Download or read book Legal guide on school food and nutrition written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid international consensus has emerged on the importance of nutrition for children’s development and well-being. At the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), the Member States of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) committed to developing policies, programmes and initiatives to ensure healthy diets throughout the children’s life cycle, emphasizing the potential of schools as platforms for integrated action. This Guide promotes a holistic and human rights-based approach to school food and nutrition, in which legislation is an indispensable tool to ensure the sustainability of public policy goals set by a country. In light of international law and standards, it provides practical information and guidance to develop or strengthen national legislation to improve food security and nutrition in schools as well as community development. The Guide presents a range of regulatory options and legislative examples of state practice that may contribute to building sound and coherent legal frameworks for school food and nutrition. It is a useful resource for law practitioners, policymakers, parliamentarians, and all actors who are involved in the design, implementation, or monitoring of school programmes and policies and most particularly, for those interested in taking legislative action (law-making or law reform).

Download or read book Nutrition Promotion written by Tony Worsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affluenza in developed societies is damaging our health, leading to increasing rates of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Growth in individual food consumption is also threatening ecological sustainability. More than ever before, dieticians, nutritionists, and other health professionals need to promote healthy eating to the general public. Nutrition Promotion sets nutrition education firmly in a public health context, showing that nutrition promotion is most effective when targeted to particular population groups. Tony Worsley presents the history, theory and methods of nutrition promotion, and provides practical applications in a variety of settings and age groups. Drawing on international theory and research, and with international case studies and examples, Nutrition Promotion is an essential text for students and professionals in nutrition studies and dietetics, health promotion and public health programs. 'Finally we have a book on nutrition promotion from a public health perspective that integrates food systems, theoretical health behavior change models, evaluation methods, applications across settings and sectors, and provides practical examples from different countries.' - Professor Mary Story, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota 'A timely and considered book. It follows in that great tradition of public health nutrition by providing a basis for analysis, but takes it a step further by helping the reader make the transition to action.' - Martin Caraher, Reader in Food and Health Policy, City University London

Download or read book Free for All written by Janet Poppendieck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.

Download or read book The Effect of School Policies and Practices and Food Environments on Fruits and Vegetables Selected from Salad Bars Among U S Elementary Schools written by Lynn M. Huynh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conclusion: Findings from this study suggest that school nutrition policies, practices, and food environments are associated with FV selected from salad bars.

Download or read book The Labor of Lunch written by Jennifer E. Gaddis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap, precooked hamburger patties and chicken nuggets chock-full of industrial fillers. Yet it’s no secret that meals cooked from scratch with nutritious, locally sourced ingredients are better for children, workers, and the environment. So why not empower “lunch ladies” to do more than just unbox and reheat factory-made food? And why not organize together to make healthy, ethically sourced, free school lunches a reality for all children? The Labor of Lunch aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed. By providing a feminist history of the US National School Lunch Program, Jennifer E. Gaddis recasts the humble school lunch as an important and often overlooked form of public care. Through vivid narration and moral heft, The Labor of Lunch offers a stirring call to action and a blueprint for school lunch reforms capable of delivering a healthier, more equitable, caring, and sustainable future.

Download or read book Educational Dimensions of School Lunch written by Suzanne Rice and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the central purpose of this collection is to examine school lunch as an educational phenomenon in its own right. Contributing authors—drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including philosophy, sociology, and anthropology—examine school lunch policies and practices, social and cultural aspects of food and eating, and the relation among school food, the environment, and human and non-human animal well-being. The volume also addresses how school lunch might be more widely conceptualized and practiced as an educational undertaking.

Download or read book Implementing school food and nutrition policies written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools play an important role in promoting healthy diets and good nutrition and can create an enabling environment for children. However, the school food environment is often not conducive to a healthy diet. To address this challenge, and to support Member States in implementing policy measures, as recommended by the Framework for Action from the 2014 Second International Conference on Nutrition, the World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of developing evidence-informed policy guidelines on the food environment, including school food and nutrition interventions and policies with a focus on five interventions and policies that influence the school food environment. These five include nutrition standards or rules, direct food provision, marketing restrictions, nudging interventions and pricing policies. This review on contextual factors to be considered in the implementation of school food and nutrition policies was prepared as part of the required process for WHO guideline development.

Download or read book Evaluating and Comparing Food Enviornment Policies and Resources in U S and Mexico School Neighborhoods written by Erica Gabrielle Soltero and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools are important environments for health as children spend a majority of their day at school. The increased availability of food resources in school neighborhoods is a growing concern, yet the school neighborhood food environment is understudied. Food environment policies can regulate the development of food resources potentially limiting exposure to unhealthy food resources and promoting access to healthy food resources. However, evaluation of food environment policies in the U.S. and Mexico has been poor, limiting our knowledge of these policies. Cross-country policy comparisons can further increase our knowledge and understanding of food environment policies, yet few cross-country policy comparisons have been conducted. The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare food environment policies in school neighborhoods in Houston, Texas and Guadalajara while simultaneously assessing the food environment in school neighborhoods in both cities. Food environment policies were collected at the county level in four Houston and four Guadalajara counties and coded to determine the food resource types, zoning districts, and provisions allowed in each policy. The school neighborhood food environment was assessed in 16 Houston school neighborhoods and 11 Guadalajara school neighborhoods using the Goods and Services Inventory. Most Houston food environment policies (N=25) allowed for the development of unhealthy food resources, yet few food resources were found in Houston school neighborhoods (M=3.0, SD=9.3). However, the food resources that were found in Houston school neighborhoods were table-service restaurants and convenience stores, which have been negatively associated with diet and weight in children. Few Houston food environment policies promoted the development of healthy food resources, which may explain the lack of supermarkets and grocery stores in all but one Houston school neighborhood. Guadalajara food environment policies (N=41) also allowed for the development of unhealthy food resources, yet Guadalajara had more policies that also promoted the development of healthy food resources compared to Houston. Guadalajara school neighborhoods were saturated with food resources (M=64.4, SD=13.4). While every Guadalajara school neighborhood had at least one supermarket or grocery store, there was high availability of convenience stores, table-service restaurants, and food carts, which were more prevalent in low-socioeconomic neighborhoods. Only one policy in Guadalajara prohibited convenience stores from developing near schools. The lack of food environment policies that specifically addressed schools was a major policy gap in both cities. These findings suggest that food environment policies in Houston should be modified to promote more development of healthy food resources and food environment policies in Guadalajara should be modified to limit the availability of unhealthy resources in school neighborhoods. In order to promote healthy dietary habits in children, the policy and food environment in school neighborhoods must become more supportive of healthy dietary habits.

Download or read book Local School Wellness Policy Implementation Under the Healthy Hunger Free Kids ACT Us Food and Nutrition Service Regulation Fns 2018 Edition written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local School Wellness Policy Implementation under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Local School Wellness Policy Implementation under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule requires all local educational agencies that participate in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs to meet expanded local school wellness policy requirements consistent with the requirements set forth in section 204 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The final rule requires each local educational agency to establish minimum content requirements for the local school wellness policies, ensure stakeholder participation in the development and updates of such policies, and periodically assess and disclose to the public schools' compliance with the local school wellness policies. These regulations are expected to result in local school wellness policies that strengthen the ability of a local educational agency to create a school nutrition environment that promotes students' health, well-being, and ability to learn. In addition, these regulations will increase transparency for the public with regard to school wellness policies and contribute to integrity in the school nutrition program. This book contains: - The complete text of the Local School Wellness Policy Implementation under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (US Food and Nutrition Service Regulation) (FNS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Download or read book School Food Equity and Social Justice written by Dorte Ruge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective. The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and development; and, Teaching and learning about food. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics with practitioner backgrounds, the chapters in this collection broaden discussions on school food to consider its educational and environmental implications, the ideals of food in schools, the emotional and ideological components of schooling food, and the relationships with home and everyday life. Our aim is to provide enhanced insight into matters of social justice in diverse contexts, and visions of how greater equality and equity may be achieved through school food policy and in school food programs. We expect this book to become essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in health education, health promotion, educational practice and policy, public health, nutrition and social justice education.

Download or read book Competitive Foods and Beverages in U s Schools written by Center for Disease Control and Prevention and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980, the prevalence of obesity among U.S. children and adolescents has tripled, and today 19.6% of children aged 6-11 years and 18.1% of adolescents aged 12-19 years are categorized as obese. A growing body of research has found that the school food environment is associated with youth dietary behaviors and obesity.

Download or read book Improving Child Nutrition Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one-third of U.S. children and teens are overweight or obese. Children consume a significant portion of their daily calories at school, so the nutritional quality of school meals and competitive foods is under particular scrutiny. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sets nutrition standards for its two major school meal programs but currently has limited authority to set nutrition standards for competitive foods. There are no national nutrition standards that regulate all foods available to students at school. The USDA programs provide meals to children in about 95 percent of public schools and many private schools across the country. The USDA also provides commodity foods for the school meal programs. Nutrition standards for the school meal programs were developed as part of the 1995 School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children (SMI). The USDA and an Institute of Medicine expert panel are working to update the SMI standards to incorporate the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 and the Dietary Reference Intakes standards. The third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (SNDA-III), which was sponsored by the USDAâ€TMs Food and Nutrition Service, provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the overall food environment in public elementary, middle and high schools. Like the previous SNDA studies, which have been influential in shaping school nutrition policy, SNDA-III is an important resource for policy-makers who are interested in supporting healthy changes to the school food environment as a way of improving childrenâ€TMs diets and overall health.

Download or read book Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century written by Ram A. Cnaan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities. It explores the history and conceptualizations of community, theoretical concepts in community organizations, social movements ranging from health to crime, and community practice methods. Further it provides authoritative statements of major theory areas, gives examples of different sub areas of the field, provides guidance to people working as practitioners in the field, and nicely coincides with the increasing interest in clinical sociology. This handbook is of great interest to academics, students and practitioners with an interdisciplinary resource to understand and collaborate in work with contemporary communities.