School and workplace meals promote healthy food habits

Raulio, Susanna; Roos, Eva; Prättälä, Ritva

doi:10.1017/s1368980010001199

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“…We also considered behavioural correlates reflecting the school lunch context, such as the presence of a school canteen (48)(49)(50) , which may be associated with healthy eating (51,52) and minimize the likelihood of consuming lunch elsewhere. In Denmark, provision of school cafeterias is not considered the norm, necessitating that most children attending school bring lunch from home (53,54) .…”

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Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Svastisalee

Pedersen

Schipperijn

et al. 2015

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: We examined associations between fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet exposure. Design: Information from the Health Behaviours in School-aged Children Study was linked to fast-food outlets in seventy-five school neighbourhoods. We used multivariate multilevel logistic regression analyses to examine associations between at least weekly fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet measures. Subjects: Data represent 4642 adolescents (aged 11-15 years) in Denmark. Results: Boys reporting two or more fast-food outlets had 34 % higher odds consuming fast food at least weekly. We detected higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake among 15-year-old 9th graders (OR all = 1·74; 95 % CI 1·40, 2·18; OR boys = 2·20; 95 % CI 1·66, 2·91; OR girls = 1·41; 95 % CI 1·03, 1·92), Danish speakers (OR all = 2·32; 95 % CI 1·68, 3·19; OR boys = 2·58; 95 % CI 1·69, 3·93; OR girls = 2·37; 95 % CI 1·46, 3·84) and those travelling 15 min or less to school (OR all = 1·21; 95 % CI 1·00, 1·46; OR girls = 1·44; 95 % CI 1·08, 1·93) compared with 11-year-old 5th graders, non-Danish speakers and those with longer travel times. Boys from middle-(OR = 1·28; 95 % CI 1·00, 1·65) and girls from low-income families (OR = 1·46; 95 % CI 1·05, 2·04) had higher odds of at least weekly fast-food intake compared with those from high-income backgrounds. Girls attending schools with canteens (OR = 1·47; 95 % CI 1·00, 2·15) had higher odds of at least weekly fastfood intake than girls at schools without canteens. Conclusions: The present study demonstrates that perceived food outlets may impact fast-food intake in boys while proximity impacts intake in girls. Public health planning could target food environments that emphasize a better understanding of how adolescents use local resources.

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Section: Covariatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Svastisalee

Pedersen

Schipperijn

et al. 2015

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Hence, the catering providers saw themselves as "gatekeepers," with the potential to disseminate sustainable consumption patterns, as the past decades have shown that school and workplace lunches have educated Finns to eat more vegetables and have thus improved public health (cf. Raulio et al 2010).…”

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Endorsing Sustainable Food Consumption: Prospects from Public Catering

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The aim of this article was to analyse an attempt to promote sustainable consumption by shaping the conditions for consumption. In particular, the focus lies on sustainable public catering as an approach to shaping both the supply of and demand for sustainable meals. In order to capture the processes of governing consumption, the way is traced in which rationalities (ways of thinking and calculating), technologies (means and instruments), visibilities (concrete manifestations), and identities (types of agents assumed) related to a policy intervention for sustainable public catering are interpreted and recreated by three main groups of actors involved: policy makers, catering professionals, and consumers. This analysis highlights the active role of practitioners in realizing policies for sustainable consumption. It has implications for policy makers and analysts: Reflexive policies should heed to actors' unfolding interpretations as they can take the policy process in different directions.During the past decades, sustainable development has emerged as an issue on the political agenda, and consumption patterns have gained prominence in the discussion on sustainable development. As early as in 1987, the report Our common future defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (World Commission on Environment J Consum Policy (2012) 35:7-21

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“…Matuk et al 19 found that 51% of preschooler lunchboxes were filled with crackers, cookies, and cakes, 20% with sweets, snack chips, and fried foods, and 35% with cold cuts. Corroborating these data, a research conducted in a Brazilian private school revealed that stuffed cookies were the most common (33%) food in children's lunchboxes 20 .…”

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Ultra-processed foods: Consumption among children at day-care centers and their classification according to Traffic Light Labelling system

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Objective: To identify the age at which ultra-processed foods are introduced in the diet of infants enrolled in public daycare centers and analyze these foods' nutritional composition according to the Traffic Light Labelling system adapted to the Brazilian norms and recommendations.Methods: Cross-sectional study including 636 nursery age children attending day care centers. Their mothers were interviewed about the age of introduction of instant noodles, snack chips, encased meat, chocolate, ice cream, and stuffed cookies. The proximate composition of these foods was evaluated according to the Traffic Light Labelling adapted to the Brazilian norms and recommendations, which classifies total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, fiber, and sodium amounts as green, yellow, or red indicators.Results: It was found that before 12 months of age 70.6% of children had consumed instant noodles, 65.9% snack chips, 54.7% encased meat, 67.1% chocolate, 36.9% ice cream, and 68.7% stuffed cookies. In addition, all foods were classified as red for saturated fat and sodium and 50.0% were classified as red for total fat.Conclusion: The introduction of ultra-processed foods in the children's diets occurred early, but it is worth mentioning that such foods have an inadequate nutritional composition, contributing to the excess consumption of total fat, saturated fat, and sodium, as well as low fiber.

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School and workplace meals promote healthy food habits

Cited by 94 publications

References 12 publications

Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents

Endorsing Sustainable Food Consumption: Prospects from Public Catering

Ultra-processed foods: Consumption among children at day-care centers and their classification according to Traffic Light Labelling system

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