School Snacks and Drinks
Competitive Foods
The foods and beverages schools offer outside of meal programs are often called competitive foods because they compete with school meals for students' spending.
Nutrition
From Healthy Eating Research
Snacking in Children: The Role of Urban Corner Stores
More than half of the students in this Philadelphia study shopped at corner stores once daily, five days per week. Chips, candy, and sugary drinks were the most frequently purchased items.
From Healthy Eating Research
The Negative Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Children’s Health
Over nearly the past 30 years, U.S. children and adolescents have dramatically increased their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, including soda, fruit drinks and punches, and sports drinks.
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Teens Purchase Fewer Sugary Drinks After Seeing In-Store Calorie Signage
Teenagers purchased fewer sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages after seeing calorie information on signs posted in convenience stores.
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Consumption of Sports Drinks by Children and Adolescents
In the middle of a national obesity epidemic, many sports drinks sold in the United States contain high amounts of sugar, adding more calories to youths’ diets.
3 p.m. to Bedtime: Crunch Time for Children and Obesity
Crunch Time: Challenges and Solutions
A poll reveals that many parents face a variety of barriers to helping their children lead healthy lives, especially during the "crunch time" from 3 p.m. to bedtime.
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Rural Pennsylvania Geisinger Clinic Tracks Nutrition Problems Among the Elderly
January 1, 2002 | Program Result
Geisinger Clinic, a nonprofit physician group practice serving northeastern and central Pennsylvania, screened more than 5,000 of its elderly, mostly rural enrollees to identify those at high risk for nutritional deficiency.
Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
May 28, 2010 | Program Result
Health e-Technologies supported research to evaluate the effectiveness of technological applications in improving health behaviors and chronic disease management and in enhancing patient-provider interactions.
Redesigning Primary Care Practice to Incorporate Health Behavior Change
February 4, 2009 | Book/Journal Article
This article introduces the American Journal of Preventive Medicine's supplement on round two results of the Prescription for Health program.
Soap-Opera-Style Spanish-Language Video Aims to Help Hispanics Prevent or Manage Diabetes
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
The University of Massachusetts Medical School created a videotaped soap-opera-style drama for use in interventions designed to increase physical activity and improve diets among low-literate and illiterate Hispanic individuals.