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www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy
2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization
Margo G. Wootan, D.Sc. Director, Nutrition Policy
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• 300 member organizations
• Federal, state and local organizations
• Diversity of members

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NANAs CNR Recommendations

• Improve the nutritional quality of foods sold
  through school stores, vending machines, and a la
  carte
• Continue to improve the nutritional quality of
  school meals
• Strengthen school nutrition and physical activity
  wellness policies
• Strengthen nutrition education in schools
• Support and strengthen the WIC program

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Strengthen Nutrition Education and Promotion

• Team Nutrition Network
• 70 mil/yr in mandatory funding
• support nutrition education and promotion in all
  schools
• TA for wellness policies
• staff person in each state agency to provide TA
  support to initiate, maintain, and evaluate
  nutrition education and promotion programs
• dissemination of model materials and policies,
  best practices
• coordination with school health, PE and other
  programs

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Whats a Junk Food?(According to the USDA)
Fruitades (with little juice) French fries
Ice cream bars Candy bars Cookies Chips Snack
cakes Doughnuts
Seltzer water Caramel corn Popsicles (without
fruit juice) Jelly beans Chewing
gum Lollipops Cotton candy Breath mints
Not Allowed

• Allowed

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Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch
Protection Act, HR 1324/S934
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School Wellness Policies

• Address nutrition education, physical activity,
  and other wellness activities
• Set nutrition guidelines for all foods available
  on each school campus during the school day
• Involve parents, students, school food personnel,
  school board, administrators, public
• 20-30 of districts have nutrition standards for
  vending , a la carte, etc.

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Strengthen Local School Wellness Policies

• Make wellness policies and implementation plans
  public
• Periodically assess implementation of policies
  and update as needed
• Maintain standing local wellness policy
  committees
• Include policies for physical education and food
  marketing in schools.

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Continue to Improve School Meals2009 CNR

• Increase reimbursement rates
• Provide equipment grants (done through stimulus
  package)
• Serve only low-fat milk
• Double DoD Fresh Program
• Improve nutritional quality of commodities
• Revise SMI review process

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We need your help!

• Advocacy is a core public health function
• Advocacy ? lobbying
• Advocacy is similar to education
• Meet, write, email or call members of Congress
  and staff
• Ask colleagues, friends, family to call or email
• Urge organizations to support NANA CNR
  recommendations
• Sign up for an organizations policy action
  network (subscribe to Sneeze)
• Write letters to the editor, op eds
• Ask NANA or SNE ACCP for guidance

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Why Policy Why nutrition policy is
important Policy Options Policies and programs
to promote nutrition and physical activity Get
Involved What you can do Find Out More Why its
hard to eat well and be active in America
today The National Alliance for Nutrition and
Activity Learn more about how to eat well

• Eating well and being physically active takes
  more than just willpower. We need programs and
  policies that make healthy food more available,
  that disclose the calorie content of restaurant
  foods, and that teach people how to make healthy
  eating easier. There are existing nutrition
  policies and programs, like Nutrition Facts
  labels on packaged foods, nutrition standards for
  school lunches, and regulation of food additives.
  But more needs to be done to help people who want
  to eat well and prevent diet-related disease.

www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy