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Children's healthful eating : from research to practice
This paper provides a brief overview of some of the challenges facing the world community in promoting the nutrition status of schoolchildren. It begins by describing the main objectives and aims of children's nutrition promotion and then moves to consider the needs and environments of schoolchildren, the purposes of education and food and nutrition promotion, and the domains of schools and teachers. In the second part of the paper the evidence bases for food and nutrition promotion are considered, especially the gaps in current knowledge. This leads to a discussion of useful practice models as well as a case study of a school health promotion program in Australia. The final part of the paper examines some proposals for schoolchildren's food and nutrition policies, which might be implemented in local schools as well as nationally and internationally. The main theme underlying these proposals is that policies must be created and their effectiveness monitored regularly and reported back to schoolteachers, health workers, school communities, and governments.
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Food and nutrition bulletinVolume
26Issue
2 Supp 2Publisher
United Nations UniversityLocation
Toyko, JapanISSN
0379-5721eISSN
1564-8265Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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