4185.0 School Food Innovations: Making Sustainable Change (Jointly organized by the Food and Nutrition and the Environment Sections)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 12:30 PM
Oral
Childhood overweight and obesity is a public health challenge. Healthy nutrition – its availability – and the school environment are explored. Presenters share sustainable strategies for promoting healthy nutritional choices in school environments.
Session Objectives: Understand variation in school food environments by poverty, race/ethnicity, and school level. Discuss the adoption of environmental strategies to fight obesity among youth. Discuss implications for implementing school nutrition policy that promote healthy choices.
Organizer:
Janice Adams-King, RN, BSN, MS
Moderator:
Janice Adams-King, RN, BSN, MS

12:30 PM
Food environments of public schools in New York City
Marnie Purciel, MPH/ MSUP, Kathryn M. Neckerman, PhD, James Quinn, MA, Gina Lovasi, PhD and Caitlin Warbelow
     
12:45 PM
Program evaluation of CHOICE: A point-of-purchase information intervention to improve youth choice of healthy meals in school
Wendy Cohn, PhD, Alicia Cost, RD, Tanya Wanchek, PhD, JD, Caroline Seastrom and Arthur Garson, MD
     
1:00 PM
Dollars and sense: Food and beverage sales in California schools
Gail Woodward-Lopez, MPH, RD, Janice Kao, MPH, Jennifer Shaw, MPH, Wendi Gosliner, MPH, RD and Pat Crawford, DrPH, RD
1:15 PM
ABCs and 123s of school food and beverage marketing: How marketers use schools as a channel for reaching students
Lisa Craypo, MPH, RD, Sarah Samuels, DrPH, Sarah E. Clark, Ameena Batada, DrPH, Victoria Berends, BS and Peggy Agron, MA, RD
     
1:30 PM
Sustainable improvements in food and beverages sold to students in school stores and vending machines in alternative high schools: Results from the Team COOL pilot study
Martha Y. Kubik, PhD, RN, Chrisa Arcan, MPH, Jayne A. Fulkerson, PhD, Mary Story, PhD, RD and Leslie Lytle, PhD, RD

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Organized by: Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, School Health Education and Services

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