Healthy Kids, Healthy Learners

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Healthy Kids, Healthy Learners


Why it is important to enhance our Districts
Local Wellness Policy
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Why We Are Here
To discuss how to enhance our Local Wellness
Policy so that every student has the
opportunity to eat healthier and engage in more
physical activity.
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1985
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1990
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1991
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1995
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1997
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2000
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2005
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2006
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity A National Epidemic Among Children, Too
Prevalence of Overweight in Children and
Adolescents
BMI gt 95th Percentile
Data Source CDC NCHS http//www.cdc.gov/nchs/prod
ucts/pubs/pubd/hestats/obese03_04/overwght_child_0
3.htmTable201.
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Childhood Obesity The Delaware Story

• In Delaware, approximately 37 of children and
  youth have an unhealthy weight and those rates
  continue to rise¹.
• Impact on Delawares economy207 million in
  medical expenditures yearly, according to a
  study in Obesity Research².

1. 2006 Delaware Survey of Childrens Health
Nemours Health and Prevention Services 2007. 2.
Finkelstein, EA, Fiebelkorn, I.C. and Wang G.
State-level estimates of annual medical
expenditures attributable to obesity. Obesity
Research 2004 12 18-24. 
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Obesity A National Epidemic Among Children, Too

• The health consequences of obesity are profound.
• type 2 diabetes
• high blood pressure
• abnormal cholesterol
• asthma
• certain types of cancers
• anxiety
• depression
• fatty liver disease
• sleep apnea

Source http//www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/overweight
/index.htm
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Obesity A National Epidemic Among Children, Too

• The CDC predicts that our current generation of
  children may be the first ever to have a shorter
  lifespan than their parents.

Source http//www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/overweight
/index.htm
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Childhood Obesity Delaware Parents Perspective
Almost 9 in 10 parents consider not eating well
that is, eating too much junk food and not
enough healthy foods to be a problem
According to research conducted for Nemours
Health and Prevention Services by Lake Research
Partners, 2006
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Childhood Obesity Delaware Parents Perspective
84 of parents believe that children not getting
enough exercise is a problem
According to research conducted for Nemours
Health and Prevention Services by Lake Research
Partners, 2006
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Childhood Obesity Delaware Parents Perspective
Almost 9 in 10 parents consider too many
children and teens being overweight or obese as
a problem
According to research conducted for Nemours
Health and Prevention Services by Lake Research
Partners, 2006
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Childhood Obesity The School District Story

• Enter statistics/information, if known, about
  the extent of this issue in your school district.
  See worksheet 1.3 for ideas.

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Local Wellness Policy What is it?
A vehicle for school districts to assess,
implement, and monitor healthy eating and
physical activity practices, as mandated by the
Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of
2004
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Local Wellness Policy Components
A Local Wellness Policy should address

• Competitive foods and beverages
• Federal nutrition programs
• Physical education and physical activity

• Nutrition education
• Staff wellness
• Monitoring and evaluation

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Local Wellness Policy What Weve Done
Working with Nemours Health and Prevention
Services, we have reviewed our current Local
Wellness Policy against national policy standards
to ensure that it is

• Supportive of other district goals
• Up-to-date with the latest school health policy
  and public health expertise
• Aligned with national recommendations and best
  practices for supporting childrens health
• Comprehensive, with opportunities for healthy
  eating and physical activity consistently
  available for students and staff

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Local Wellness Policy The Rationale for Our
Focus on Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

• Childhood obesity is a problem throughout the
  country. Creating school environments that
  support healthy eating and physical activity can
  help address this critical issue.
• Currently, federal requirements for wellness
  policies focus on nutrition and physical
  activity.
• In the future, we recommend that our district
  identify ways to broaden the focus to address
  student and staff wellness more comprehensively.

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Local Wellness Policy Where Wed Like to Go
Based on our review, we would like to enhance our
Local Wellness Policy in the following areas

• Insert list of topics to improve, selecting from
  list on Slide 20

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Local Wellness Policy Enter topic from slide
27-32

• Then, select from topic descriptions on slides
  27-32, for each area you intend to improve. Put
  one topic on each slide.

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Local Wellness Policy Why We Chose This Topic

• Briefly describe the reasons why you selected a
  particular topic, and the benefits it could bring
  to your district

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Local Wellness Policy What We Plan to Do

• For each topic, briefly describe what you plan
  to do, e.g., Action Plan

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Competitive Foods and Beverages
Foods and beverages available outside of the
school meal program (i.e. vending machines, a la
carte snack lines, and school stores) should be
limited to

• In Elementary Schools
• Low-fat and non-fat milk
• Fruits and non-fried vegetables
• In Middle/High Schools
• Water, 100 fruit/vegetable juices with no added
  sweeteners, low-fat or fat-free milk (flavored or
  unflavored), and nutritionally equivalent
  non-dairy beverages
• Foods that meet nutrition standards on fats,
  sugars, grains, dairy, fiber, and sodium

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Federal Nutrition Programs

• All schools in the district should
• Provide only foods and beverages that are
  consistent with federal requirements
• Administer a School Lunch and School Breakfast
  Program
• Participate in the Summer Lunch Program and After
  School Snack Program
• Apply criteria outlined for Competitive Foods (if
  more stringent than federal requirements) to
  federal nutrition programs
• Develop strategies to maximize participation in
  federal nutrition programs
• Annually train or certify all nutrition workers
  through organizations such as USDA, School
  Nutrition Association, and/or National Food
  Service Management Institute

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Physical Education and Physical Activity

• All schools in the district should
• Provide daily physical education, or at least 150
  minutes of physical activity per week
• Offer opportunities for students to participate
  in extracurricular physical activity programs
• Make available and promote school spaces and
  facilities to students, staff, and community
  members
• Have certified PE teachers

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Nutrition Education

• All schools in the district should
• Integrate skills-based instruction on screen
  time, healthy eating, and physical activity into
  the comprehensive health education program taught
  at every grade level.
• Ensure that nutrition education is part of not
  only health education classes, but also classroom
  instruction in other subjects, with links to
  school meal programs, school foods, physical
  education, and health-related community services.

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Staff Wellness

• The school district should have an active staff
  wellness committee, with a plan that promotes
  staff health and wellness in each school.

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Monitoring and Evaluating

• Each district should have an individual or
  council that isresponsible for updating and
  enforcing the Local Wellness Policy.

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Local Wellness Policy Benefits to District
A comprehensive Local Wellness Policy can bring
significant academic and financial benefits to a
school district Heres how
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Academic Benefits
The links between students nutrition and
physical activity and academic performance are
profound

• According to a 2005 study from California, which
  focused on the importance of physical education
  in schools, students with higher fitness scores
  had better SAT/9 test scores for reading and math.

Grissom JB. Physical Fitness and Academic
Achievement. JEPonline. 20058(1)11-25.
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Academic Benefits

• A 2005 review of 22 research studies concluded
  that eating breakfast daily may enhance students
  cognitive function (particularly memory),
  academic performance, school attendance rates,
  psychosocial function, and mood.

Rampersaud GC, Pereira MA, Girard BL, Adams J,
Metzl JD. Breakfast habits, nutritional status,
body weight, and academic performance in children
and adolescents. J Am Diet Assoc. May
2005105(5)743-760 quiz 761-742.
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Academic Benefits

• In a USDA pilot program conducted during the
  2002-03 school year, 107 schools offered free
  fruits and vegetables to their students, either
  in class, in the lunchroom, or in hallways. As a
  result of this effort, teachers reported an
  increase in students attention during class and
  generally better student eating behaviors.

Buzby JC, Guthrie JF, Kantor LS. Evaluation of
the USDA Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program
Report to Congress. Washington, DC Economic
Research Service/USDA 2003.
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Academic Benefits
Grissom JB. Physical Fitness and Academic
Achievement. JEPonline. 20058(1)11-25
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Financial Benefits

• Districts that have begun to improve the
  nutritional value of food and beverages, a
  central part of a comprehensive Local Wellness
  Policy, are seeing financial benefits
• California districts that implemented new
  policies, such as setting nutritional guidelines
  for competitive foods and beverages, saw an
  increase in revenues. Out of the twenty schools
  evaluated
• 65 saw overall food service department revenues
  increase by more than 5
• 90 experienced an increase of more than 5 in
  revenues from meal sales and reimbursements
• 80 increased the number of lunches they served,
  and 79 of the schools that already offered
  breakfast increased the number of breakfasts they
  served, generating more revenue overall (Center
  for Weight and Health, 2007)

Dollars and Sense The Financial Impact of
Selling Healthier School Foods Center for Weight
and Health, University of California, Berkeley,
2007.
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Financial Benefits
Percent of schools experiencing changes in total
food service department revenues per student per
year
Dollars and Sense The Financial Impact of
Selling Healthier School Foods Center for Weight
and Health, University of California, Berkeley,
2007. Reprinted with permission.
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Local Wellness Policy What We Can Do
To ensure that ALL students in our district have
the motivation, ability, and opportunity to eat
healthier foods and engage in more physical
activity enabling them to live healthier lives
We ask the Board to
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Local Wellness Policy What We Can Do
Adopt our revisions to the districts Local
Wellness Policy, so that these critical policy
standards are incorporated and institutionalized
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Together, we can help our districts students
become among the Healthiest in the Nation!