Download or read book Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Behavior of School age Children in Texas who Participated in the School Physical Activity and Nutrition SPAN Project written by Kimberley Ann Sasser and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soda Sweetened Beverage Milk Breakfast and Snack Consumption Among Obese BMI Greater Than Or Equal to 30 Texas School aged Children and Adolescents Participating in the School Physical Activity and Nutrition SPAN Project written by Kristi Laine King and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eat Well Keep Moving written by Lilian W.Y. Cheung and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North America obesity continues to be a problem, one that extends throughout life as children move into adolescence and adulthood and choose progressively less physical activity and less healthy diets. This public health issue needs to be addressed early in childhood, when kids are adopting the behaviors that they will carry through life. Eat Well & Keep Moving, Third Edition, will help children learn physically active and nutritionally healthy lifestyles that significantly reduce the risk of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases. BENEFITS This award-winning evidence-based program has been implemented in all 50 states and in more than 20 countries. The program began as a joint research project between the Harvard School of Public Health (currently the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and Baltimore Public Schools. In extensive field tests among students and teachers using the program, children ate more fruits and vegetables, reduced their intake of saturated and total fat, watched less TV, and improved their knowledge of nutrition and physical activity. The program is also well liked by teachers and students. This new edition provides fourth- and fifth-grade teachers with the following: • Nutrition and activity guidelines updated according to the latest and best information available • 48 multidisciplinary lessons that supply students with the knowledge and skills they need when choosing healthy eating and activity behaviors • Lessons that address a range of learning outcomes and can be integrated across multiple subject areas, such as math, language arts, social studies, and visual arts • Two new core messages on water consumption and sleep and screen time along with two new related lessons • A new Kid’s Healthy Eating Plate, created by nutrition experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, that offers children simple guidance in making healthy choices and enhances the USDA’s MyPlate Eat Well & Keep Moving also offers a web resource that contains numerous reproducibles, many of which were included in the book or the CD-ROM in previous editions. A separate website, www.eatwellandkeepmoving.org, provides detailed information for food service managers interested in making healthful changes to their school menus; this information includes recipes, preparation tips, promotional materials, classroom tie-ins, and staff training. The web resource also details various approaches to getting parents and family members involved in Eat Well & Keep Moving. A Holistic Approach Eat Well & Keep Moving is popular because it teaches nutrition and physical activity while kids are moving. The program addresses both components of health simultaneously, reinforcing the link between the two. And it encompasses all aspects of a child’s learning environment: classroom, gymnasium, cafeteria, hallways, out-of-school programs, home, and community centers. Further, the material is easily incorporated in various classroom subjects or in health education curricula. Eight Core Principles Central to its message are the eight core Principles of Healthy Living. Those principles—at least one of which is emphasized in each lesson—have been updated to reflect key targets as defined by the CDC-funded Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration partnership. These are the principles: • Make the switch from sugary drinks to water. • Choose colorful fruits and vegetables instead of junk food. • Choose whole-grain foods and limit foods with added sugar. • Choose foods with healthy fat, limit foods high in saturated fat, and avoid foods with trans fat. • Eat a nutritious breakfast every morning. • Be physically active every day for at least an hour per day. • Limit TV and other recreational screen time to two hours or less per day. • Get enough sleep to give the brain and body the rest it needs. Flexible, Inexpensive, Easy to Adopt The entire curriculum of Eat Well & Keep Moving reflects the latest research and incorporates recommendations from the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It fits within school curricula, uses existing school resources, is inexpensive to implement, and is easy to adopt. The content is customizable to school and student population profiles and can help schools meet new criteria for federally mandated wellness policies. Most important, armed with the knowledge they can gain from this program, elementary students can move toward and maintain healthy behaviors throughout their lives.
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 Team Nutrition written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge and Behavior Change in Children Within the University of Missouri Extension Family Nutrition Program written by Linda J. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that nutrition education doesn't guarantee knowledge and/or behavior change in every programming effort. Therefore, research of nutrition education programming is of utmost importance to discover if knowledge and behavior change is successful within children participating in nutrition education curriculum. This research project evaluated nutrition and physical activity knowledge and behaviors from children participating in the University of Missouri Extension's Family Nutrition Program versus children not participating in the program. Findings revealed differences in the knowledge and attitudes within children who are participating in the University of Missouri Extension's Family Nutrition Program related to: food groups a person should eat from the most, amount of fruit needed per day, meat intake amounts, knowledge that certain foods can reduce a person's risk of cancer, and confidence they could eat healthy at a fast food restaurant. When looking at nutrition behaviors, research concluded that students participating in the Family Nutrition Program ate more meat at post survey, drank more milk at post, ate more fruit at post, and ate more meals per day at post survey. Finally, there were differences found regarding physical activity behaviors within the students participating in the Family Nutrition Education Program revealing they had higher levels of physical activity, went to physical education or gym class more often, and had less screen time after nutrition curriculum intervention.
Download or read book School Meal Program Participation and Its Association with Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity written by Philip Gleason and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building for the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Out of School Time Settings written by Jean L. Wiecha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence base of the impact and effectiveness of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in the out-of-school setting is continuing to emerge. By sponsoring this special issue, the National AfterSchool Association provides a platform for the sharing of a range of research studies that can inform and shape current discussion of best policies and practices to support child and youth wellness. The body of work presented in this issue adds considerably to our knowledge of healthy eating and physical activity interventions in out-of-school programs, and highlights the substantial contribution towards childhood obesity prevention that we envision from our field. This is the 143rd volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.
Download or read book Effects of a School based Nutrition Intervention Program on the Dietary Behaviors and Nutrition Knowledge of 4th grade Children written by Nicolle Renee Landry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nutrition Knowledge Food Preference and Eating Behavior of Vermont s School Aged Children written by Janet Cryan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Influence of an Intervention Program on the Knowledge and Perceptions of School age Children Regarding Nutrition and Physical Activity written by Angel Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nutrition Education Curriculum written by Anet Piridzhanyan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this graduate project was to develop a pilot program that included nutrition lessons, physical activity, and cooking sessions to provide a curriculum for children ages 8-to-11 years old, in the hope of increasing nutrition knowledge that may help improve their lifestyle habits. The Healthy Eating Summer Camp for Kids was implemented through the Summer Academic Program for Elementary School Students (SAPESS) on California State University, Northridge campus. The curriculum included lesson plans, cooking sessions and physical activity, which were tailored to each food group of the Food Guide Pyramid for each week of the five week long course. The three learning theories, cognitivism [cognitive], humanism [affective], and behaviorism [psycho-motor] were implemented throughout the course. The same pre- and post-tests were administered to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum regarding students' nutrition knowledge status. This project was successful in evaluating the effectiveness of the nutrition education component of the curriculum. Knowledge was most increased regarding the students' ability to identify the different types of dairy, to recall specific foods in the grain group that were emphasized in the curriculum, and the appropriate daily intake of foods in the grain group. Conclusions regarding the impact of the physical activity and cooking session components of the program on students' knowledge cannot be made at this time, as they were not evaluated.
Download or read book Team Nutrition Connections written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
