This video provides a brief tutorial on how to find your school district’s wellness policy, which is a written document of official policies that guide a school district’s efforts to establish a school environment that promotes students’ health, well-being, and ability to learn by supporting healthy eating and physical activity. Any school that participates in USDA child nutrition programs must have a wellness policy on file.
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Full citation: Pudney EV, Himmelstein MS, Puhl RM. The role of weight stigma in parental weight talk. Pediatr Obes. 2019;14(10):e12534. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12534
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A report released in January of 2019 highlights increasing disparities in unhealthy food advertising targeted to Hispanic and Black youth. Join the report’s authors to hear how food and beverage companies continue to advertise their least healthy products, including candy, fast food, sugary drinks and snacks, to youth in communities of color, and learn what can be done to encourage food and beverage manufacturers, restaurants, grocery retailers, and media companies to improve their targeted marketing practices.
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Full citation: McKee SL, Cooksey-Stowers K, St Louis R, Schwartz MB. Understanding the process of implementing nutrition and physical activity policies in a large national child care organization: a mixed-methods study. Transl Behav Med. 2020;10(3):801-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz045
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Kristen Cooksey Stowers
Marlene Schwartz
Full citation: Harris J, Frazier W, Fleming-Milici F, et al. A qualitative assessment of US Black and Latino adolescents’ attitudes about targeted marketing of unhealthy food and beverages. Journal of Children and Media. 2019;13(3):295-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2019.1604394
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Frances Fleming-Milici
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Nearly 40 million Americans face hunger, and many rely on the food banking system to supplement the groceries needed to feed themselves and their families. Consequently, it is essential to maximize the nutritional quality of food available through food pantries. At the same time, it is also important to encourage food pantry clients to select these healthier options.
This study, published in Public Health Nutrition, introduced meal kits in food pantries to see whether this encouraged selections of nutrient dense foods, and it found that cllients were three times as likely to take kale and whole grains when meal kits were offered.
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Kristen Cooksey Stowers
Full citation: Stein EC, Stowers KC, McCabe ML, White MA, Schwartz MB. Ingredient bundles and recipe tastings in food pantries: a pilot study to increase the selection of healthy foods [published correction appears in Public Health Nutr. 2019 Jun;22(9):1723]. Public Health Nutr. 2019;22(9):1717-1722. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019000259
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Marlene Schwartz
Food and beverage companies frequently target children with marketing inside their schools, where they are a captive audience. This marketing shapes children’s preferences for foods and beverages that put their health at risk. This summary explains how food and beverage marketing is integrated into schools and how policies have been developed to help prevent this.
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Full citation: Puhl RM, Himmelstein MS, Watson RJ. Weight-based victimization among sexual and gender minority adolescents: Findings from a diverse national sample. Pediatr Obes. 2019;14(7):e12514. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12514
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This infographic, created from the Rudd Center’s 2019 Targeted Marketing report, visually represents money spent to advertise on Black-targeted TV, as well as the proportion of food-related TV ads viewed by Black teens.