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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"school food"”.
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Improving Nutritional Intake Through Environmentally Sustainable School Food Programs
… growth, development, and academic achievement. Food insecurity and overweight are concerns in school-aged children, and food literacy skills are declining. The structure of our society has led to little connection between people and their food, including where it comes from and how to grow and …
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Cultivating School Food Community: An Ethnography on Nutritional Wellbeing in a Calgary Public School
… rates of obesity and overweight in young people. Schools are popular sites for health education programming in this regard. Although policies and initiatives have been used to improve student nutritional health, low-nutritional value foods (LNVFs) continue to proliferate in the school food …
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A Pilot Study of a Summer School Food Backpack program for Students and Their Caregivers
… interventions have been conducted that include school-based nutrition education and food preparation classes that are paired with a backpack of food. <br /><strong>Objective</strong>: Determine if the program ingredients were used at home, if the necessary cooking tools were available and if the …
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A beautiful day in these neighborhoods: variations in access to school, food, and healthcare in neighborhoods along an urban to rural gradient
… and orientation to basic amenities like food, healthcare and education. Most neighborhood level research has paid little attention to the contexts (urban, suburban, and rural) that neighborhoods are situated. The purpose of this research is to explore the differences in neighborhood …
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Food for Thought: An Analysis of Metropolitan Polarization and School Lunch Disparities in the Austin MSA
… in American cities, including the quality of school food service. In this project I use accessible, publicly available data to map how polarization, race, class, and school lunch relate to each other spatially in the Austin MSA. Through visual comparative analysis, I find that there is a …
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Compliance of Illinois School Lunch Menus With the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: A Needs Assessment
The results of this study indicate that school food service directors are trying to comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and are fairly knowledgeable about the guidelines. However, more personalized nutrition education focused on the specific needs of each director is warranted.
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Development of a staffing guide for a combined a la carte and type A food service in two senior high schools
… a guide that could be used in a senior high school for determining the staffing needs for a combined Type A and a la carte food service system. It was felt that a modified work sampling technique could be used in connection with observations made in an actual school food service operation. …
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The impact of food and non-alcoholic beverage sponsorship and marketing in the school environment on the food choices of school-going children and adolescents: A scoping review 2011 – 2023
… amounts of empty calories, specifically from foods high in saturated fats, sugar, and sodium, which is exacerbated by targeted marketing and sponsorships. The scoping review aimed to investigate the prevalence of food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing in schools and to determine the impact …
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Sustainable food procurement in public catering – comparison of the UK with Denmark & Sweden
The research compares sustainable food procurement in public catering in three countries: Denmark, Sweden and the UK. The greatest difference between the UK and the other two countries was the very much higher percentage of organic food in Denmark and Sweden. Within Europe Denmark and Sweden are …
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Cultivating a Healthy School Environment: Evaluation of a Virginia School Nutrition Training Program
… training program on Virginia elementary schools from 2017-2020. The VDOE provided training for school nutrition directors (SNDs) at workshops in June 2018 and September 2019 and continued technical assistance to help SNDs improve the school food environment within their divisions. SNDs' …
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Determination of projected direct labor time for two methods of satellite feeding: individual prepackaged plate meals and bulk transport meals
… was to determine for two methods of satellite food service being used in school lunch programs--bulk and prepackaged plate--the direct labor time and costs for a specified number of meals served. Student customer acceptability for each type of service system was also investigated. Time studies …
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Rebuilding local food systems: marketing and economic implications for communities
… focused on providing locally sources foods to structure their businesses. The concept of value chains is still relatively new, so by conducting case studies of successful value chains this thesis provides insight into the best practices for new value chains, organized based on the …
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An examination of individual level effects of downsizing in a foodservice organization
… attitudes and behaviors of employees of a school food service organization. A major purpose of this study was to investigate individual level responses according to the severity of the downsizing. The research also examined the relationships between employees' stress-related perceptions and …
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THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED
… Free Meals (UFM) – a program available to schools with sizable economically disadvantaged populations – on student well-being and district financial feasibility. UFM provides free meals to all students, regardless of household income, in an attempt to increase participation in school meals …
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Impact of School Feeding on Student Attendance in Secondary School: A case of Kiteto District in Tanzanian
This study assessed the impact of school feeding programme on students’ attendance in Tanzanian public secondary schools of in Kiteto District, Manyara Region. The study was guided by four specific objectives: describing the effectiveness of school feeding programme; assessing the influence of …
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Scheduling Recess Before Lunch: Perceptions of Washington State Public Elementary School Professionals
… of improving the overall health and behavior of school-aged children. While some studies have reported a variety of benefits and challenges by simply scheduling recess prior to the specified lunchtime, few have examined adequate strategies for successful implementation. This mixed-methods study …
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Évaluation des processus du projet pilote sur l'alimentation scolaire du Nouveau-Brunswick
… alimentaire de leurs élèves (Alberta Education School Nutrition Program, 2017; Everitt et al., 2020; Hernandez et al., 2018; The Coalition for Healthy School Food, 2016). Bien qu’un faible nombre de ces programmes aient été formellement évalués au Canada (Everitt et al., 2020), ceux qui l’ont …
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