Create Healthy School Nutrition Environments

Support Academic Performance       Healthy Children = Healthy Adults

The Benefits of Improving School Health & Nutrition Programs

Make an investment in your school's health education program and foodservice programs to ensure that your students are READY TO LEARN.  Provide your students with a strong foundation in health -  implement a comprehensive nutrition education & physical activity programs in combination with a healthy school meal program.  Healthy children are the foundation of successful schools.

	Enhanced Academic Performance:  Healthy children who eat well and participate in regular physical activity can learn better.  Research indicates that good nutrition and physical activity can lead to better academic performance.
	Decreased Absenteeism & Tardiness:  The provision of healthy meals at school, ensures that all children are ready to learn.  Studies show that children who participate in school meal programs, such as the National School Breakfast Program, arrive at school on-time and are absent less.
	Less Behavioral Problems Among Students:  Students who are cognitively impaired due to poor nutrition or lack of physical activity will not perform as well in school.

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School Nutrition Improvement Services

Design your own program or choose from one of our programs listed below.  Programs are tailored to meet the needs of your school and community.  Training programs are scheduled at your convenience and are created to meet professional development criteria for educators, school health and foodservice/nutrition professionals.  

School & Health Education Programs

•   Focus on School Health Programs Series: Enhancing Student Achievement:  Improving and strengthening coordinated school health education programs through a comprehensive assessment & evaluation process is the primary focus of this 2-part series. This program is designed to assist schools & communities in assessing the current status of nutrition and physical activity programs within the coordinated school health education program model.  This program will utilize current assessment tools, including (but not limited to) the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's, "School Health Index." This program is customized to meet specific goals  identified by the school council, school health education coordinators and/or school administrators.*  Commitment and teamwork are essential to the success of this program.

*Massachusetts Health Protection Grant Funds (entitlement grant) requires "the inclusion of a program evaluation component."  This program can utilized as an evaluation component for other school grant funding opportunities.  Each program is custom-fit for the school and district. 

 Part I  -    Nutrition & Physical Activity Program Assessment & Evaluation

 Part II -    Making Changes to Improve School Health Environments:  Focus on Nutrition & Physical Activity  

School Weight Management Program:  Make healthy eating and physical activity fun.  Let us help you to implement a school-wide nutrition & physical activity campaign guaranteed to get your students focused on improving healthy habits.  Administration, faculty, foodservice & health educators, and parent involvement is encouraged.   Successful campaigns include:  "TV Turn-off Week,"  "Walking to School Days," "Focus on 5-A-Day," "Got Milk 1% or Less?," and  many more!

10,000 Steps-A-Day to Improved Health: We will MOTIVATE your students to walk their way to health.  Footwear selection instruction, weekly/monthly walking logs, nutrition education, and pedometers recommendations provided.  Ask us for more details on bulk pedometer purchases.  Funding solutions will be provided.

Additional Resources:

Overweight Children: Is Parental Nutrition Knowledge A Factor? (Variyam, J. Food Review, Volume 24, Issue 2.)

Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Guidelines. (Society for Nutrition Education, 2002).

Fitness Programs for Children