A study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine titled, "Pre-sliced Fruit in School Cafeterias: Children's Selection and Intake," determines whether or not students would be more likely to eat fruit if it was pre-sliced for them. The study found that consumption of apples increased when students were given the selection of pre-sliced apples, instead of only whole fruit. This is important information because students are given fruit and healthy options at school, but the preparation is sometimes a deterrent for small children when it comes to eating the fruit. When looking to make changes or improvements to school meals, this is an important factor to take in because it will increase nutritional value of lunches and decrease food ...
Featured on The Lunch Box's website, is an advise page for parents/caregivers about what they can do to make changes at their children's school. The Lunch Box initially suggests just making a little noise about what is going on with school lunches by visiting the school or conversing with other parents about the current school food. They go on to make suggestions like having parents do research on policies, eating at school, finding others who support you, involve the community, and many other ways to create beneficial changes to school lunches. This page is an excellent resource for those who want to make a change, but aren't sure where to ...
Parents Educators & Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food (PEACHSF) offers many How-to guides on their websites that help parents or other leaders take the first steps toward improving their school food. This website includes links to resources like glossaries of school food terms, how to organize your goals, how to be an advocate, rookie mistakes to avoid, how-to write a press release or talk to a reporter, where to start when tackling school meals, how-to fund raise without selling food, and other resources focusing on improving school ...
Let's Move--the comprehensive obesity prevention campaign led by first lady Michelle Obama--has launched its Let's Move Active School initiative. According to the new website site, an active school is one that seeks to increase opportunities for: (1) physical education; (2) physical activity during school; (3) physical activity before and after school; (4) staff involvement; and (5) family and community engagement. Visit the Let's Move!, Active Schools website for more information on how to make your school more ...
When focus groups were conducted among parents, the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that parents are often unaware of the ploys used by food marketing companies to entice children to consume unhealthy foods. The qualitative research presented in this report demonstrates the need to enlist support from parents in order to limit food marketing to ...
Follow the Y Street teens on Twitter to see learn about their latest efforts to reduce childhood obesity in Virginia. Recently Y Street volunteers worked with the ActOut campaign to conduct a survey, to learn about physical activity in the ...
Food companies launch marketing campaigns disguised as charities to schools. Experts agree that too much sugar, salt, and fat, in food marketed to children, is contributing to the childhood ...
This video demonstrates how Youth in Shasta County used photovoice and community surveys to make fresh fruits and vegetables more available in their ...
