Nutrition, Dietetics & Health

School Nutrition and Activity
Impacts on Well-Being

Editor: Areej Hassan, MD, MPH

School Nutrition and Activity

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: March 2015
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771881074
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-382-3
E-Book ISBN: 9781498721738
Pages: 454pp with index
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback


Reviews
“Designed to address the growing epidemic of overweight and obese youth. Following an introduction that discusses the role of school intervention in treatment and prevention are chapters that provide schools with a strong, science-backed basis for policies and practices that support healthy eating and regular physical activity. The volume targets the issue of overweight and obese children and adolescents on three levels by addressing the effects of unhealthy eating and lack of exercise, relaying successful small-and large-scale, school-based interventions, and synthesizing current literature along with a translation into specific guidelines and recommendations. . . . It arranges in one place a vast amount of literature on an increasingly important topic. Directed at a professional audience, this book is recommended.”
— Staff Reviewer, American Reference Books Annual

Now Available in Paperback


This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. This insightful compendium provides valuable information and assesses the research foundations behind several school initiatives to help combat the epidemic of obesity in children and adolescents, particularly using interventions to increase physical activity. The book looks at the issue from three levels: first, the effects of unhealthy eating and lack of exercise on a number of health outcomes in children and adolescents; second, successful small- and large-scale school-based interventions; and finally, synthesis of current literature and translation into specific guidelines and recommendations.

Specific topics addressed in the book include
  • the appeal and benefits of outdoor versus indoor activity
  • cultural differences in physical activity
  • successful interventions and their continued success, or lack of, after several years
  • the roles of family and community interventions
  • staff involvement in children’s physical activities
  • specific programs, such as Planet Health, an anti-smoking intervention with unintended obesity intervention
  • establishing healthy habits in youth
This research provides schools with a strong foundation for implementing policies and practices that support healthy eating and regular physical activity. In the process, educators will be ensuring the best possible chance for increasing students’ academic success, improving both physical and mental health, and decreasing the risk for myriad chronic diseases.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Part I: Overview and Rationale
1. Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis
Sameera Karnik and Amar Kanekar
2. Reading, Writing, and Obesity: America’s Failing Grade in School Nutrition and Physical Education
Jason Schaub and Mary Marian

Part II: Examples of School-Based Programs and Their Effectiveness
3. Effectiveness of a School-Community Linked Program on Physical Activity Levels and Health-Related Quality of Life for Adolescent Girls
Meghan M. Casey, Jack T. Harvey, Amanda Telford, Rochelle M. Eime, Amanda Mooney, and Warren R. Payne
4. A Repeated Measures Experiment of Green Exercise to Improve Self-Esteem in UK School Children
Katharine Reed, Carly Wood, Jo Barton, Jules N. Pretty, Daniel Cohen, and Gavin R. H. Sandercock
5. Long-Term Effect of a School-Based Physical Activity Program (KISS) on Fitness and Adiposity in Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
Ursina Meyer, Christian Schindler, Lukas Zahner, Dominique Ernst, Helge Hebestreit, Willem van Mechelen, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Jardena J. Puder, and Susi Kriemler
6. School Programs and Characteristics and Their Influence on Student BMI: Findings from Healthy Passages
Tracy K. Richmond, Marc N. Elliott, Luisa Franzini, Ichiro Kawachi, Margaret O. Caughy, M. Janice Gilliland, Courtney E. Walls, Frank A. Franklin,Richard Lowry, Stephen W. Banspach, and Mark A. Schuster
7. Moderating Influences of Baseline Activity Levels in School Physical Activity Programming for Children: The Ready for Recess Project
Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Gregory J. Welk, Daniel W. Russell, and Jennifer Huberty
8. School-based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco
Adele L Franks, Steven H Kelder, Geri A Dino, Kimberly A Horn, Steven L Gortmaker, Jean L Wiecha, and Eduardo J Simoes
9. Associations Between Eating Frequency, Adiposity, Diet, and Activity in 9–10-Year-Old Healthy-Weight and Centrally Obese Children
Amy Jennings, Aedín Cassidy, Esther M.F. van Sluijs, Simon J. Griffin and Ailsa A. Welch

Part III: Recommendations for the Future
10. Systematic Review of the Health Benefits of Physical Activity and Fitness in School-Aged Children and Youth
Ian Janssen and Allana G. LeBlanc
11. Rethinking the Role That School Meals Play for Health and Nutrition Education: A European Perspective
Bent Egberg Mikkelsen
12. From “Best Practice” To “Next Practice”: The Effectiveness of School-Based Health Promotion in Improving Healthy Eating and Physical Activity and Preventing Childhood Obesity
Christina Fung, Stefan Kuhle, Connie Lu, Megan Purcell, Marg Schwartz, Kate Storey, and Paul J Veugelers
13. School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Recommendations and Reports
Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: Areej Hassan, MD, MPH
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Areej Hassan MD, MPH, is an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School as well as an attending physician at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She completed her pediatric residency at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, prior to training in adolescent medicine at Boston Children’s. In addition to primary care, Dr. Hassan focuses her clinical interests on reproductive endocrinology and international health. She also maintains an active role in medical education and has particular interest in building and developing innovative teaching tools through open educational resources. She currently teaches, consults, and is involved in pediatric and adolescent curricula development at multiple sites abroad in Central America and Southeast Asia.




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