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This page lists resources that explain how comprehenive approaches to promoting healthy eating through schools can be done. This includes linking eating and nutrition to other issues such as mental health, physical activity, poverty, geographical isolation, by expliciting using multi-level strategies within education, food and health systems as well as intersectorial approaches. It also includes a comprehensive approach to nutrition and healthy eating that includes overeating, undereating, food safety, food security and other aspects.

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  • Nutrition Tools for Schools© (ON) aims to help school communities work through a step-by-step process of creating a healthy school nutrition environment. Practical tools and resources are included to help the school carry out many different activities that support healthy eating in classrooms, schools and within the community external to the school. This whole school approach fits within the comprehensive school health model that many public health units are using to guide their work with schools. Developed as a collaborative venture between several Health Departments, It is currently being used by 33 of the 36 Health Departments in Ontario. The Power Point presentation, included as an attachment below, provides more information on this excellent resource. A wiki dedicated to sharing more about NTS, including implementation and evaluation related efforts, has been established at: http://nutritiontoolsforschools.wetpaint.com/.
  • The new (BC based) Healthy Eating at School Website is one-stop shopping with all of the relevant school nutrition resources on one site presented by the BC Dairy Foundation, ActNow BC and Knowledge Network. www.healthyeatingatschool.ca
  • Action Schools! BC is a best practices model designed to assist schools in creating individual action plans to promote healthy living using a whole school, comprehensive approach. One of the goals of the initiative is to enhance knowledge, affect attitudes and influence eating behaviours, including increasing vegetable and fruit intake. The Healthy Eating pilot demonstrated that the initiative was effective at changing the pattern of vegetable and fruit consumption of school children in Grades 4 to 7 (Day, Strange, & Naylor, 2007). See: www.actionschoolsbc.ca.
  • Menu of Choices (from OPHEA - Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) is an online resource that takes the form of a dynamic website, www.MenuofChoices.ca. Menuofchoices.ca provides the latest quality information and supports to understand, plan and address healthy eating key messages in the school community for grades k-12. The website encourages the entire school community to take a proactive approach to addressing the healthy eating behaviours of children and youth.
  • Source URL: http://www.healthinschools.org/News-Room/News-Alerts/April-2008/School-Nutrition-Program-Reduces-Incidence-of-Overweight-in-Students.aspx School Nutrition Program Reduces Incidence of Overweight in Students: A school nutrition program, The School Nutrition Policy Initiative, organized by the Philadelphia-based Food Trust has reduced the incidence of overweight among students in the target schools and was particularly effective with African American students according to a report published in the April issue of Pediatrics. The multi-component program included a school self-assessment; nutrition education for students, staff and families; nutrition policy development and related changes in food offerings at the target schools; incentives for students who purchased healthy foods and social marketing that re-enforced healthy decisions; and parent outreach to emphasize nutrition messages and promote physical activity. The authors noted that: “There is some concern that school-wide obesity prevention programs may heighten body image concerns among youth and/or create more underweight children.” However, the authors continued, “Although the purpose of the intervention was the primary prevention of overweight and obesity, the emphasis was on eating well and moving more rather than weight control. This emphasis may have mitigated any potential adverse effects.” See: Gary D. Foster, et al. A Policy-Based School Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity. Published on-line in PEDIATRICS Vol. 121 No. 4 April 2008, pp. e794-e802 (doi:10.1542/peds.2007-1365) at pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/121/4/e794






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