Trial reportAppetite2013
Modification of the school cafeteria environment can impact childhood nutrition. Results from the Wise Mind and LA Health studies.
Trial report in Appetite, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- School Nutrition Environment and Services: Policies and Practices That Promote Healthy Eating Among K-12 Students.The Journal of school health · 2023Pooled it
- A Community Guide Systematic Review: School Dietary and Physical Activity Interventions.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Environmental interventions to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their effects on health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Food Waste in the National School Lunch Program 1978-2015: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2017Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Efficacy of a school-based obesity prevention intervention at reducing added sugar and sodium in children's school lunches: the LA Health randomized controlled trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Trial
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- A Practical Perspective on Confronting the Obesity Epidemic: Public-Health Strategies.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Students' consumption of high and low nutrition foods and reduced plate waste by schools' wellness-related policies and garden program participation.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2023Article
- School food offer at lunchtime: assessing the validity and reliability of a web-based questionnaire.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Contributions of Food Environments to Dietary Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2021Review
- Beyond Nutrient Intake: Use of Digital Food Photography Methodology to Examine Family Dinnertime.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2019Article
- Choice Architecture in Appalachian High Schools: Evaluating and Improving Cafeteria Environments.Nutrients · 2019Article
- Development and Evaluation of the Implementation of Guidelines for Healthier Canteens in Dutch Secondary Schools: Study Protocol of a Quasi-Experimental Trial.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Recent changes in nutrition standards for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs assume that modification of the nutritional serving practices of school cafeterias will result in improved childhood nutrition in the school environment. The primary aim of this paper is to summarize the findings from two recent cluster randomized controlled trials (Wise Mind and LA Health) that tested the hypothesis that modification of school cafeteria environments, including changes in nutrition standards, would yield beneficial changes in childhood nutrition and healthy eating in the school lunch environment. A secondary aim was to investigate the association of participant characteristics and changes in nutrition and healthy eating. A third aim was to investigate the relationships between the food intake of children and: (1) foods selected by the children and (2) food that was uneaten during the lunch meal (plate waste). The studies used similar approaches for modifying the school cafeteria environment and both studies used the digital photography method to measure changes in food intake, food selection, and plate waste. Both studies reported significant improvements in childhood nutrition, and the LA Health study reported improved healthy eating, following introduction of the cafeteria modification program in comparison to baseline and/or control arms. These studies confirm the hypothesis that interventions that modify the school cafeteria environment can beneficially impact childhood nutrition.
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