new YORK (Reuters Health) – schools of United States
Advanced a small step in the promotion of food
healthy students between 2006 and 2010, although a
new study shows that much work still pending.
according to a scale of zero to 100, the public schools
improved three points in the quality of the food environment and
private schools advanced five points.
the authors of the evaluation sought to see if there were improvements
with implementing policies of nutritional well-being in
schools across the country between 2006, when ordered apply
those policies, and late 2010.
“the important thing is that there were some changes in certain areas,
but needed more changes to create a healthy environment
optimal”, said Lindsey Turner, lead author of the study e
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beleid aan de Universiteit van Illinois, Chicago.
het Turner team verzamelde resultaten van enquêtes
uitgevoerd in school periodes 2006-2007 en 2009-2010, om de
bestuurders en degenen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor voedsel diensten van
1830 primaire openbare en particuliere scholen van het land.
de deelnemers gereageerd op bod activiteit
natuurkunde, voeding onderwijs-, lunch- en verkoop van voedsel.
tussen deze periodes, openbare scholen verhoogd de
voeding beperkingen op collectie dagen van
middelen en verminderde contracten met bedrijven die verkopen
dranken zoete. ook verhoogde de levering van korrels
integralen in de lunch.
openbare en particuliere scholen aangeboden alleen melk
skim in most establishments and increased the amount of
gardens school. private schools also improved their
educational nutritional. programmes
Turner published this year that decreased access of
students to soft drinks and other beverages sweet. but, in the
new study, General scores assigned to schools
by their answers they atemperaron that advance.
the qualification of public schools increased from 50.1
points in 2006 to 53.5 points in 2009, while the of
private schools rose from 37.2 in 2006 to 42.2 in 2009.
“Although there was an increase in the percentage of schools with
healthy practices and average score grew
significantly, the magnitude of the change was minimal and even
much to improve”, write the authors in Journal of
the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
“Er was een doorbraak op sommige gebieden, die positief is.
maar in het algemeen, de resultaten zijn teleurstellend”, geloofde Anne
Eskdalemuir, Professor van het departement van medische ethiek en politieke
gezondheid van de University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Bron: dagboek van de Academie van voedings- en dieetleer,
online 5 juni 2012