How School Meals Nourish Brains and Bodies

How School Meals Nourish Brains and BodiesCarol Chong, MA, RDN, LDN National Nutrition Advisor Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Annette C Marchbanks, DTR Director School Nutrition Services, Syracuse City School District, NY

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Our Mission:To reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity

and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Childhood obesity has almost tripled

in children and adolescents in the past 30 years.

Breakfast and Lunch are Part of the School Day

Objectives - Participants will be able to determine that :

Nutritious meals are essential to learning

Hunger affects learning and behavior

School meals provide nutrition that is an integral to the learning environment

• Link between cognitive development and nutrition

• Hunger/undernourished

A Hungry Child Cannot Learn

“You cannot teach a hungry mind.”

1946 – National School Lunch Program 1966 – Child Nutrition Act (breakfast) 1970’s – Summer feeding, after school snacks 1979 – Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value 1994 – Required Dietary Guidelines, School

Meals Initiative 2004 – Wellness policies, Repeal of NET,

authorize Team Nutrition 2010 – Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act

A Little History

School Nutrition Programs

Why Breakfast?

Source: NYSED, Child Nutrition Program Administration

Students & School Breakfast• Less than 1 in 5 (19%) of All Students in NYS Ate

School Breakfast during 2010–2011 School Year.

• Low-income Students (qualified for free or reduced-price meals) are Missing Out on Essential Morning Nutrition.

• A Low Percentage of Low-income Students Actually Ate School Breakfast (in the 2010-11 School Year) Less than 1 in 3 (28%) of low-income

students ate school breakfast.

Source: NYSED, Child Nutrition Program Administration

Breakfast in the ClassroomSuccess Around!

Effective Ways to Expand Your Breakfast Program!

• Breakfast in the Classroom

• Grab-n-Go Breakfast

• “Second Chance” (Late)

Breakfast

• Vending Machines

WHAT’S FOR LUNCH?

SCHOOL MEALS NOURISH BODIES AND MINDS FOR SUCCESS

carol.chong@healthiergeneration.org

Carol Chong, MA;RD;LD/NNational Nutrition AdvisorAlliance for a Healthier Generation

Annette Marchbanks, DTRAssistant Director, Syracuse City School District New York

Thank you!

amarchbanks@scsd.us

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