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Nutrition Friendly Schools (GT)
This page contains a summary that describes and explains Nutrition Friendly Schools. Please comment on this documents using the "thread" tool at the bottom of this page or edit the text using the "easy edit" tool found at the just above this text.
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Nutrition Friendly Schools (NFS) are an application of a population health and school health approach to the promotion of healthy eating and prevention of a wide range of nutrition-related problems such as obesity, eating disorders, food safety and allergies and food security. A NFS framework can be used to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive approaches, coordinated agency-school programs and whole school strategies in a coherent and holistic manner. The components of a NFS approach include school/agency/ministry policies relating to food consumed at school, nutrition education, food and nutrition information/counselling services, social support within the school and the community through school activities, parent involvement and cooperation with community organizations and a healthy physical environment/resources that includes a healthy cafeteria, school gardens and access to clean water.
There are several NFS models that have been published by credible international and Canadian agencies. These include the World Health Organization (Nutrition-friendly schools, Nutrition: Part of a Health Promoting School, School Policy Framework on Diet & Physical Activity), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (School Gardens, Nutrition Education), World Food Program/UNICEF (Essential Package of School Interventions) and School Health and Nutrition/Feeding Programs that are used in low income countries. Health Canada has published an overview (Food for Thought) and several provinces have defined school nutrition policies, initiatives and programs.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS RELATING TO THIS SUMMARY
Glossary Term: Nutrition Friendly Schools (First Draft)
Editor: Mary McKenna PhD, Professor, University of New Brunswick
Writer: Doug McCall, Coordinator, International School Health Network dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org
Contributors:
First Draft Posted for Discussion: March 15, 2009
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Permissions for Use: The authors, writers, editors, contributors, sponsors, partners and the International School Health Network retain the right to first publish this document or adapted versions thereof in accordance with regular copyright laws. However, web links to this page and excerpts from this document are encouraged.
Related Summaries in this Web Site: Please see these documents in this set on school nutrition policies: Glossary Term (one paragraphs), Encyclopedia Entry (two pages) Handbook Section (15 pages, includes recorded webinars) and Bibliography of Research & Resources. Also, see the other similar sets of documents on Nutrition Friendly Schools that cover other topics such as multi-intervention programs and school nutrition activities.
Note to readers: If you prefer to print the document for easier reading while editing, you can use the "Download to Print " version (Our web pages print with a very small font). However, please make any changes to the text on this web page so that others can see your changes. (We will keep the print version up to date with any changes to the web page version.)
Nutrition Friendly Schools
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Nutrition Friendly Schools (NFS) are an application of a population health and school health approach to the promotion of healthy eating and prevention of a wide range of nutrition-related problems such as obesity, eating disorders, food safety and allergies and food security. A NFS framework can be used to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive approaches, coordinated agency-school programs and whole school strategies in a coherent and holistic manner. The components of a NFS approach include school/agency/ministry policies relating to food consumed at school, nutrition education, food and nutrition information/counselling services, social support within the school and the community through school activities, parent involvement and cooperation with community organizations and a healthy physical environment/resources that includes a healthy cafeteria, school gardens and access to clean water.
There are several NFS models that have been published by credible international and Canadian agencies. These include the World Health Organization (Nutrition-friendly schools, Nutrition: Part of a Health Promoting School, School Policy Framework on Diet & Physical Activity), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (School Gardens, Nutrition Education), World Food Program/UNICEF (Essential Package of School Interventions) and School Health and Nutrition/Feeding Programs that are used in low income countries. Health Canada has published an overview (Food for Thought) and several provinces have defined school nutrition policies, initiatives and programs.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS RELATING TO THIS SUMMARY
Glossary Term: Nutrition Friendly Schools (First Draft)
Editor: Mary McKenna PhD, Professor, University of New Brunswick
Writer: Doug McCall, Coordinator, International School Health Network dmccall@internationalschoolhealth.org
Contributors:
- The 125+ members of the Canadian Community of Practice on School Nutrition reviewed and commented on this summary.
First Draft Posted for Discussion: March 15, 2009
Editing and Commenting on this Document: This summary is open for editing. It is preferable that people wishing to edit this document sign up with this wiki-based web site (no cost, no spam) by creating an account with the www.wetpaint.com networking platform. However, we allow anonymous participation as well. Comments can continue to be made by clicking on the "thread" button at the bottom of the page or by using the Discussion feature in the top navigation bar.
Permissions for Use: The authors, writers, editors, contributors, sponsors, partners and the International School Health Network retain the right to first publish this document or adapted versions thereof in accordance with regular copyright laws. However, web links to this page and excerpts from this document are encouraged.
Related Summaries in this Web Site: Please see these documents in this set on school nutrition policies: Glossary Term (one paragraphs), Encyclopedia Entry (two pages) Handbook Section (15 pages, includes recorded webinars) and Bibliography of Research & Resources. Also, see the other similar sets of documents on Nutrition Friendly Schools that cover other topics such as multi-intervention programs and school nutrition activities.
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