School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
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Obesity crisis: pizza, pastries, chips, donuts, cookies, hot dogs, and burgers – just your average school lunch.
New research will examine how the emerging farm-to-school movement can support local food systems, as well as providing healthy lunches for children.
There would be many benefits from a national school food program, including a chance to teach children healthy eating habits that could last a lifetime. Why can’t it happen?
With obesity affecting so many students, it’s better to give them cheap, appealing food and drink choices at school.
School garden projects are becoming hugely popular. Over 25 percent of public elementary schools include garden-based learning. Do these gardens improve the education and health of young people?
Ghana’s school feeding programme has reached millions of children in the past 11 years. It does important work, but needs more support to grow and become sustainable.
In-school nutrition programmes can reduce the chances of children suffering from childhood obesity.
When Jamie’s School Dinners first aired in early 2005, it launched Britain’s secondary schools as a key battle ground for politicians, professionals and campaigners keen to improve young people’s diet…
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
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Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health, Cardiff University
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability, University of Energy and Natural Resources
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Rowan University
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Food and Public Health, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Geography, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia
