Schools
School Nutrition
Competetive Foods
- Dollars and Sense: The Financial Impact of Selling Healthier School Foods
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- Food and Beverage Marketing on California High School Campuses Survey: Findings and Recommendations
March 2006
Download [48k pdf file]
- How to Renegotiate Your School Soda Contract
The "School Beverage Policy" recently announced by the nation's largest soft drink manufacturers presents schools across the country with an unprecedented opportunity to renegotiate their soda contracts and stop selling sodas and other non nutritious beverages such as diet sodas and sports drinks to their students. This document provides rationale and best practices for Renegotiating a school soda contract.
www.informedeating.org/guidetorene.htm
- Competitive Foods Policy Brief
Funded by The California Endowment and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation this issue brief prepared by Samuels & Associates notes that children's easy access to unhealthy foods at school and in their communities has contributed to climbing rates of childhood overweight and obesity and provides policy recommendations for creating healthy environments in schools.
Download: Competitive Foods Policy Brief [741k pdf file]
- Beverage Firms Agree to Cut Soda Sales in Schools Nationwide
Ceding to mounting pressure from consumer advocates and parents, Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc. and other beverage marketers agreed in May 2006 to halt sales of sugared sodas in schools and limit the size and caloric content of other beverages they sell there. The move affects less than 1% of the beverage giants' U.S. sales, but represents another retreat by soda companies.
Download: Beverage Firms to Cut Soda Sales in Schools [9k pdf file]
- Captive Kids: Selling Obesity at Schools
This tool kit addresses the issue of marketing unhealthy foods and beverages on school campuses and includes information on: marketing to children and youth through schools; key steps to develop policy that addresses marketing at schools; answers to legal questions; and talking points, case studies, fact sheets, additional resources and more. The kit is available to download or order at California Project LEAN's web site.
www.californiaprojectlean.org/captivekids
- Snack Calculator
This tool provided by California Project LEAN will determine if an individual food item would meet the nutrition standards for fat, saturated fat, and sugar established by California's legislation. Simply enter the Nutrition Facts Panel from a food label into the calculator.
www.californiaprojectlean.org/calculator/
- Vending Machine Workshop Materials
On November 2, 2005, the Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative (BANPAC) conducted a workshop on vending machine policies. Attached are two examples of vending policies, from Contra Costa County and Berkeley and a vending MOU. Additional materials, such as speaker notes and power points are available.
Downloads:
Marin DHHS MOU [11k pdf file]
Berkeley Vending Policy [240k pdf file]
Contra Costa County Vending Machine Policy [15k pdf file]
- Selling Obesity: Beverage Vending Machines in California High Schools
A new report (Fall 2005) prepared by Samuels and Associates for The California Endowment finds that seven out of 10 beverages sold in campus vending machines would not be allowed under SB965 - the state legislation that sets standards for beverages sold in high schools.
Download: Selling Obesity [317k pdf file]
- School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Widely Available and Generate Substantial Revenues for Schools
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a Congressionally requested report on foods sold out of school vending machines, school stores, and cafeteria a la carte (snack) lines. The report substantiates the prevalence of competitive foods in the school environment. As the report title implies, schools do generate substantial revenues from a la carte food sales, but not enough data was available to determine the impact of selling healthier foods on these revenues. A Backgrounder on the GAO report, put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is included to provide a succinct analysis of the report.
Downloads:
GAO Competitive Foods Report [966k pdf file]
GAO Study Backgrounder [101k pdf file]
- American Beverage Association Announces School Vending Policy
In August 2005, the American Beverage Association announced a voluntary school beverage policy to limit the sale of sodas and sweetened beverages in school vending machines. Attached is a link to the American Beverage Association policy and a news article from the Washington Post about the policy.
www.ameribev.org/schools/vending_policy.asp
Downloads:
Strategic Alliance Talking Points [76k pdf file]
Limits Set on School Drink Sales [21k pdf file]
Nutrition Standards/School Meals
- School Nutrition...By Design!
The California Department of Education (CDE) this tool which provides the design principles behind developing a healthy school nutrition environment, provides quality indicators and recommended strategies and provides a set of resources to design customized implementation strategies. Other publications by the CDE are available at:
www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/
Download: School_Nutrtion_By_Design.pdf [1.2MB pdf file]
- Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools Meeting - "Experience in Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Nutrition Standards in Schools"
The IOM Committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools held its third meeting on February 13-14, 2006 in Irvine, CA. Links to the videocast of the conference are available here:
www.iom.edu/CMS/3788/30181/32096.aspx
- An Advocate's Guide to the School Nutrition Programs
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) released in November 2005 the first complete reference manual for advocates, school administrators, educators, lawyers and paralegals, state and local officials, parent groups, and community organizations. The guide can be ordered for $35 through the FRAC Publications Department.
Download: FRAC Order Form [80k pdf file]
- Impact of the California Project LEAN School Board Member Social Marketing Campaign
Under the leadership of California Project LEAN, a social marketing campaign was directed at California school board members to motivate them to advance nutrition-related policy issues at school board meetings and to enact and enforce school policies that support healthy eating. This report explores the details of campaign development, implementation, and impact.
Download: ProjectLEAN SMQ Summer 2005 [384k pdf file]
- Making it Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories
This compilation of thirty-two case studies demonstrating that schools and their communities can work together to create healthier nutrition environments for our children. Produced by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Food Nutrition and Consumer Services and Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the support of the Department of Education in March 2005, the publication can be downloaded or ordered at:
www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/nutrition/making-it-happen/
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