Advocacy/Organizing Resources
If you are new to all of this, read the following 1-page
document:
Action
Ideas for Improving School Foods
Soda Specifics
Vending Machine Specifics
NEW Research on
What Works!
School Food and Beverage Policies
Soda Specifics
NEW Liquid
Candy (CSPI)
Soda
Fact Sheet (CCPHA)
American
Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement (AAP)
Taking
the Fizz Out of Soda Contracts (California Project LEAN)
What
it Took to Ban Soft Drinks in Los Angeles School District
Soda Facts
(Philadelphia Coalition for Healthy Children)
Soft
Drinks & School-Age Children (North Carolina Team
Nutrition)
NEW How
to Counter Common Arguments for Sodas in Schools (Center
for Informed Food Choices)
Vending Machine Specifics
Dispensing
Junk (CSPI)
Summary
of Healthy Snack Vending Standards (Dec 2004)
NEW Research
on What Works!
Research on What Works!
will contain information and links to academic studies and
research into what works to change eating behavior.
School Food and Beverage Policies
School Foods Tool Kit: Guide to Improving School Foods
& Beverages (CSPI)
Part I: How to Improve School Foods & Beverages
Part
II: Materials and Policies
Part
III: Case Studies
Roadmap
to Healthy Food in Schools (Natural Ovens Bakery)
Menu
for Change: Getting Healthy Foods into Schools
Stonyfield Farm has compiled an excellent set of resources:
Healthy Vending Machines
Parent
Action Kit
Organic
Lunchbox
Resources
and Research
North Carolina Team Nutrition
program has three excellent guides to help change school food
practices:
School
Drinks and School-Age Children
5-A-Day
and School-Age Children (fruits and vegetables)
Portion
Sizes and School-Age Children
The Strategic Alliance, a oalition
of nutrition and physical activity advocates in California,
developed the Environmental
Nutrition and Activity Strategies Tool (ENACT). ENACT
is a concrete menu of strategies designed to help you improve
nutrition and activity environments on a local level. Each
strategy is complemented by practical "how-to" information
for implementation, including tools, resources, articles,
model policies and programs.
Rethinking
School Lunch Guide (Center for Ecoliteracy)
Guidelines
for School Health Programs to Promote Lifelong Healthy Eating
(CDC)
The Center for Disease Control
has also developed a School
Health Index, a self-assessment and planning tool to improve
the effectiveness of their health and safety policies and
programs.
Recommendations
for Competitive Foods Standards in California Schools
(CCPHA)
Schools
Can Play a Role in Preventing Childhood Obesity (NAS Institute
of Medicine)
Healthy
Schools for Healthy Kids (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
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