Transcript SCHOOL NUTRITION ENVIRONMENT: HEALTHY OR UNHEALTHY?? LaChaunta Washington  Audience Glynn County school board Parents Teachers Cafeteria employees Coastal Health District       Purpose  Improving primary and secondary schools’ nutrition environment Cafeteria  Vending machines  Classroom.

SCHOOL NUTRITION
ENVIRONMENT: HEALTHY OR
UNHEALTHY??
LaChaunta Washington
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Audience
Glynn County school board
Parents
Teachers
Cafeteria employees
Coastal Health District
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Purpose
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Improving primary and secondary schools’ nutrition
environment
Cafeteria
 Vending machines
 Classroom parties
 Concession stands
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EXPECTED LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Child
and adolescent
overweight/obesity statistics
Nutrition standards and “healthy”
foods
Schools’ role in promoting healthy
eating
Tips for helping parents and teachers
integrate nutrition into students’
everyday life
Creative ideas for getting students to
“like” healthy foods
OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY
STATISTICS
Inadequate
nutrition and lack of physical
activity
1963-2006:
13% increase in male and female
children ages 6-19
Economic
cost: $117 billion in 2000
(Wechsler, McKenna, Lee, & Dietz, 2004, p. 5)
Leads
to other health issues: diabetes, high
blood pressure/cholesterol, social problems
Overweight
children = Overweight adults
FOOD
PYRAMID
NUTRITION STANDARDS
Caloric
expenditure should
equal caloric intake
9 servings of fruits and
vegetables
Focus on whole grains
Milk keeps bones strong
Meats & beans = proteins =
energy
SCHOOLS’
All
ROLE
children will go to school at
some point in their lives
“Schools provide opportunities to
practice healthy eating.” (CDC, 1996,
p. 9)
Coordinated School Health Program
SAMPLE LUNCH MENU
Example 1
Example 2
Parents
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Set the example
“Show” the child the
way
 Set limits
Teachers
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Stop blaming the child
 Choose health over
convenience
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Cut down on eating
out especially fast food
Active learning
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Allow students to
taste “healthy” foods
Help students own up
to eating behaviors
 Focus on positives
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CREATIVE IDEAS
Smoothies
Blind
testing
Healthy food building
Fast food vs. Healthy food
FURTHER READING
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (June 1996).
Guidelines for school health programs to promote lifelong healthy
eating. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 45(RR-9), pp. 141.
Georgia Action for Healthy Kids http://take.actionforhealthykids.org/site/Clubs?club_id=1110&pg=
main
Making it Happen: School Nutrition Success Stories http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/MIH/MainPage.aspx
Stallings, V. A. & Yaktine, A. L. [Editors]. (2007). Nutrition
Standards for Foods in School: Leading the Way Toward
Healthier Youth. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2008). Health, United
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Retrieved January 4, 2009, from
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus08.pdf#076
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (June 1996).
Guidelines for school health programs to promote lifelong healthy
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