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
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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.
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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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Measuring the Food Environment
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines challenges of measurement in the field of food environment research. This relatively young field has not yet fully addressed psychometric measurement issues, the interaction of social, individual, and environmental factors, and the large scale of data produced from food environment studies.
RWJF to Evaluate Efforts by Industry
October 5, 2009
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President and CEO, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., announces RWJF's commitment to evaluate industry efforts to address childhood obesity.
Reducing Potential Bias in Industry-Funded Nutrition Research
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
America the Super-Sized
August 31, 2009 | Presentation Material
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey addressed leaders of the food, beverage and consumer products industry and urged them to work toward reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.
Looking for Ways to Evaluate California's Social Marketing Approach to Nutrition
November 11, 2008 | Program Result Report
The California Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families conducted in-depth interviews with experts in program planning and evaluation in order to gain an external critique of its evaluation model.
Spreading the Word that Lifestyle Matters More Than Genes
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The American Association for World Health, Washington, conducted a yearlong national media and community education campaign to promote healthy aging, which was the theme of the World Health Organization World Health Day 1999.
Farmers Market Brings Low-Cost Produce, Recipes and Nutrition Education to New York's Central Harlem
April 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
Harlem Children's Zone, a social service organization in New York City's Central Harlem, operated a monthly farmers market that provided low-income families with easy access to fresh produce at reduced or no cost.
Marketing Junk Food - Meeting Explores Ways to Reduce It
July 14, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Center for Science in the Public Interest hosted a conference of child and nutrition advocates to discuss the state of food marketing to children, and to strategize how to reduce children's exposure to the marketing of low-nutrition foods.
In Santa Fe, Cooking with Kids Program Tries to Make Fruits and Vegetables Interesting
August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Cooking with Kids is a hands-on food and nutrition education program that operates in 12 elementary schools in Santa Fe, N.M.
Rural Pennsylvania Geisinger Clinic Tracks Nutrition Problems Among the Elderly
January 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
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.