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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) — To improve school
nutrition and get children to eat healthier, involve parents, teachers and
school administrators, new research finds.
Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Southern California looked at 400
students at eight elementary and middle schools who took part in a
three-year study that examined the use of a public-health approach to
improve nutrition.
During the study, the researchers worked with teachers and
administrators at certain schools to improve nutrition practices. For
example, they replaced food and beverage classroom rewards with non-food
prizes and implemented healthy catering at school events and classroom
celebrations.
For fund-raising events, they served healthy foods and beverages,
awarded non-food prizes and had games such as a “prize walk” instead of a
“cake walk.” The researchers noted that schools actually made more money
through healthy events such as jog-a-thons than carnivals with popcorn and
pizza.
There was a 30 percent decrease in the amount of unhealthy foods and
beverages consumed by students at these schools during the study, compared
to a 26 percent increase at other schools.
The amount of healthy lunches students brought from home and other
outside sources also increased at the intervention schools.
“Schools are an ideal place for establishing lifelong healthy eating
habits, but until now that’s been easier said than done,” study lead
author Karen Coleman said in a Kaiser news release. She added that the
study “helped us understand how communities and schools could work
together to get kids to eat healthier at school and help address childhood
obesity.”
The study was published in the International Journal of Behavioral
Nutrition and Physical Activity.
More information
Nemours has more about childhood nutrition.
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