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Healthy School Nutrition
Environment
USDA's Team Nutrition has
launched an effort to foster
healthy school nutrition
environments that support
healthy eating and physical
activity. Team Nutrition
collaborated with 16
organizations to develop
Changing the Scene – Improving
the School Nutrition Environment.
This action kit can be used at
state and local levels to
educate decisionmakers about the
role the school environment
plays in helping students meet
the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans. Changing the Scene
provides ideas on how to make
needed changes that help
students learn and practice
healthy eating and physical
activity habits.
Making It Happen – School
Nutrition Success Stories shares stories from 32 schools and school
districts that have made innovative changes to improve the nutritional quality
of all foods and beverages offered and sold on school campuses. These success
stories illustrate the wide variety of approaches used to improve student
nutrition. The most consistent theme emerging from these case studies is that
students will buy and consume healthful foods and beverages, and schools can
make money from healthful options. Making It Happen! includes a variety
of materials developed by some of the schools and contact information for each
story.
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