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Direct linkZapata, María E.; Buffarini, Romina; Rovirosa, Alicia; Pérez Martín, Joaquín; Tomé, Joaquín; Carmuega, Esteban – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Since 2016, the School Food Program in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, implemented a nutritional regulatory framework (NRF) and varying administration systems (AS). Here, we examined the association between the interventions (only NRF and NRF + AS) and breakfast nutritional and food indicators between 2016 and 2019. Methods: Data…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Breakfast Programs, Program Improvement, Foreign Countries
Download full textAssefa, Easaw Alemayehu – Educational Planning, 2023
According to the Ethiopia Ministry of Education (2015), school feeding initiatives, such as feeding children in food insecure conditions, providing educational resources, and school meals are essential for supporting access to general education. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of school feeding program on the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 8, Hunger
Darmody, Michelle – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Free school meals provide support to vulnerable families in the Republic of Ireland. Funding is allocated as part of an anti-poverty strategy. An investigation was carried out to discover if the school meal could be used to provide nutritious scratch-cooked food as well as providing opportunities for increased socialisation and pedagogy. Food…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Nutrition, Socialization
Wilson, Penny – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
School nutrition programs are integral to academic success. To support the whole child, teachers must appreciate what role nutrition plays in academic success. Studies of food insecurity reveal there are degrees of severity. Although the key determinate of food security is poverty, employment is not necessarily a shield. One can eat and still be…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Security (Psychology), Diabetes
Borkowski, Artur; Ortiz Correa, Javier Santiago; Bundy, Donald A. P.; Burbano, Carmen; Hayashi, Chika; Lloyd-Evans, Edward; Neitzel, Jutta; Reuge, Nicolas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries were in food crises or worse, and 2 billion people did not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. COVID-19 has exacerbated these hardships and may result in an additional 121 million people facing acute food insecurity by the end of 2020. Further, since the beginning of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Nutrition
Lalli, Gurpinder Singh – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
This paper examines the discourse on school meals, as evidence suggests that political agendas feed into policy making. The paper fills a void by proposing new insights into how school meals could be reformed, following reflections from a doctoral study and a review of the changing narrative on school food in England. Recommendations include…
Descriptors: Food, Educational Environment, Political Influences, Policy Formation
Magpily, Maria Pamela; Mercado, Joseph – Athens Journal of Education, 2015
The paper explored the relationships between general weighted average (GWA) and type of parents' employment and educational attainment, type of family structure, study habits, nutrition, and extracurricular activities of fourth year college students aged 19-20. Using a stratified random sample, the population was divided into subpopulations or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
O'Dea, Jennifer A.; Wagstaff, Samantha – Health Education Research, 2011
This national study examined student breakfast consumption and nutritional quality of breakfast in 2000 and 2006 by gender, school grade, school socioeconomic status (SES) and weight status after the implementation of a national breakfast promotion campaign. Participants were 4237 schoolchildren in grades 2-12 from 32 schools in 2000 and 5645…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Eating Habits, Scientific Concepts, Foreign Countries
Cueto, Santiago; Chinen, Marjorie – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
In this paper, we present data from an evaluation of the educational impact of a school breakfast program implemented in rural schools in Peru. The results showed positive effects on school attendance and dropout rates, and a differential effect of the breakfast program on multiple-grade and full-grade schools. Particularly in multiple-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Rural Schools, Dropout Rate, Breakfast Programs
Duvall, Jennifer K.; Hill, Elizabeth N. – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
This Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) Resource List is a quick guide designed to help professionals find information related to nutrition, learning and behavior in children. Each resource has been placed into one of five categories, in alphabetical order, by title.
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, Foreign Countries, Eating Habits
O'Dea, Jennifer A.; Wilson, Rachel – Health Education Research, 2006
A large national study of schoolchildren aged 6-18 years was conducted to assess nutritional and socio-cognitive factors associated with body mass index (BMI). A questionnaire was used to assess nutritional quality of breakfast, importance of physical activity and food variety score, among 4441 students from randomly selected schools in all states…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Locus of Control, Obesity, Body Composition
Nicholas, J.; Powell, R.; Smith, R. – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2006
In 2005 the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to gather evidence on local authority (LA) and school approaches to nutrition in schools in order to inform the work of the WLGA Schools Food Task and Finish Group. This report presents the findings of that research.…
Descriptors: Obesity, Nutrition Instruction, Nutrition, Foreign Countries
Hunt, Caroline L. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
The subject of the proper feeding of children of school age involves problems which may be said to be the most difficult as well as the most important of all the problems of human nutrition. The child of school age must grow and must also work. In this he differs on the one hand from the infant, whose work is all ahead of him and on the other hand…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Dietetics, Nutrition, Lunch Programs
