Healthy Kids are Happy Kids! . Building a Healthy Food Environment at your School

1. Healthy Kids are Happy Kids! .Building a Healthy Food Environment at your School Meghan Holness, BSc Food & Nutrition Community Education Supervisor Regina Education and Action on Child Hunger Chelsea Brown, RD Nutrition Health Educator Health Promotion Population and Public Health Services

2. Outline • Comprehensive school community Health and a healthy food environment • Nutrition Education – Teaching Nutrition in SK: Concepts and Resources • Foods Served and sold in school – Using Healthy foods for my School • Promoting local, healthy foods in school – “The Big Crunch”

3. Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities: How You Can Make a Differencehttps://www.ophea.net/healthy-schools-communities

4. Comprehensive school community health

6. How our environments impact our health

7. Supportive Environments for Physical Activity • Gym class • Safe and active routes to school • Standing desks • Stretch/energy breaks • Recess • Schoolyard design and accessibility • B & A Programs

8. Activity • Write down 5 foods that you ate today or yesterday. • What factors affected your food choices?

9. The Food Environment • the food and beverage choices • accessible to a person where they live, work, eat, learn, rest and play. • The product placement, pricing, marketing and advertising of foods and beverages • all have a direct impact on a person’s food choice. • It can make healthy choices easy or difficult.

10. The School Food Environment • Foods Served and sold • Appearance • Foods promoted • Placement • Price • Role modeling • The lunchroom/eating environment • Nutrition education in the classroom

11. Examples of Food Environments that support healthy Eating • Attractive and appealing healthy options front and centre in vending machine, canteen, cafeteria • Healthy options at a more affordable price than other options • Variety • School staff modeling healthy eating habits • Getting students involved in healthy menu planning and meal prep • Having a school food policy that is implemented, communicated and monitored. • Posters and signs advertising healthy options and fun catchy slogans • Planting a school garden and involving the whole school community. • Food is not used as a reward for students.

12. Examples of School Food Environments that do NOT support Healthy Eating Habits • Vending machines with limited healthy options • Hot lunch days providing limited healthy options • Limited healthy options in the cafeteria or canteen • Schools that are built within walking distance of fast food and convenience stores. • School Staff providing food as a reward • School Staff modeling unhealthy eating habits in front of students. • Advertising of foods with poor nutritional value in the school.

13. What’s the harm, it’s just a treat…right?

14. Healthy Physical & Social Environments / Effective Policy Foods Served & Sold in school Using Healthy Foods for my School

15. Healthy Foods for my School • To help schools choose healthier packaged foods that are at least “choose sometimes” foods. • Helps others know which foods to bring into schools. • To advocate for accessibility of healthier food from the food industry

16. USINGHealthy Foods for my School First Select a Food Group…

17. USINGHealthy Foods for my School Flavoured Yogurt Example Ingredients List: 

18. Yogurt X 

19. Flavoured Yogurt     

20. Choose Most Often, Choose Sometimes, Choose Least Often Lets Practice!

21. High Quality Teaching and Learning Nutrition Education Teaching Nutrition in Sk: Concepts and Resources

23. Three Sections • Nutrition Concepts and Resources • Nutrition Background information • Nutrition Resources and References

24. Teaching Nutrition in Saskatchewan Nutrition Concepts and Resources

25. Nutrition Concepts and Resources Section

26. Teaching Nutrition in Saskatchewan Nutrition Background Information

27. Nutrition Background Info • Basic up to date information • Fact sheets (1-3 pages) • For Educator’s use only

28. Teaching Nutrition in Saskatchewan Nutrition Resources and References

29. Nutrition Resources & References Hyper link for most of the resources and references listed

30. Grade 4: An example

31. Grade 4 Nutrition Concepts • What is Healthy Eating • Canada’s Food Guide • Regular Eating Habits • Water and Beverages • Nutrition Truths • Opportunities and Barriers to Healthy Eating • Healthy Food Choices • Taking Action on Healthy Eating • Weight Bias • Determinants of Health • Take Action on Healthy Eating

32. Grade 4 Nutrition Resources

35. Public Health Nutritionists of Saskatchewan - August 2013

40. Family and Community Engagement / High Quality Teaching and Learning / Healthy Physical & Social Environments / Policy Promoting local healthy foods “The Big Crunch!”

41. Students crunch down on a local carrot • Learn about food from field to table • Get excited about healthy eating • Watch this Video from FoodShare.net: • http://www.media.gov.on.ca/player/5.1.818/player.swf?config=http://www.media.gov.on.ca/28cf2711ff2dcdd4/en/config.xml The Big Crunch

42. Kids share knowledge with their family • Involvement of community members and partnerships Family and Community Engagement

43. Support local food • Supports school food policy • Promote sustainability • Build relationships with local farmers Effective Policy

44. Teacher resource package available • Big Crunch can fit into different areas of curriculum • Teachers to decide what and how much is taught High quality teaching and learning

45. Healthy physical and social environments • Local carrots crunched in the school • Kids can prepare the carrots • Conversations about local and healthy food • Healthy Eating in a fun and safe environment

46. In Conclusion… • Comprehensive school community Health and a healthy food environment • Nutrition Education – Teaching Nutrition in SK: Concepts and Resources • Foods Served and sold in school – Using Healthy foods for my School • Promoting local, healthy foods in school – “The Big Crunch”

47. Links/Resources Comprehensive School Community Health: www.education.gov.sk.ca/csch/ Healthy School Planner:hsp.uwaterloo.ca/ Nourishing Minds: Towards Comprehensive School Community Health: Nutrition Policy Development in Saskatchewan Schools www.education.gov.sk.ca/nourishing-minds/ Healthy Foods for my School: www.saskatchewan.ca Teaching Nutrition in SK: www.fhhr.ca/DidYouHearUs.htm The Big Crunch: Food Share: www.foodshare.net/great-big-crunch CHEP: www.chep.org/en/programs/the-big-crunch REACH Website: www.reachinregina.ca/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/reachregina Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region Health Website: www.rqhealth.ca/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReginaQuAppelleHealthRegion

48. Contact Information Chelsea Brown, RD Nutrition Health Educator Health Promotion Department Population and Public Health Services Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region (RQHR) Phone: (306) 766-6320 Email: chelsea.brown@rqhealth.ca Meghan Holness REACH Community Education Supervisor Phone: (306) 347-3224 Email: reach.education@sasktel.net