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4272.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
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| Understand how the school environment impacts childrens' food choices and physical activity is important given the dramatic increase during the last decade in overweight in school-aged children. The purpose of this session is to present current research related to the school environment and nutrition and physical activity and students' perception of these issues. Examples of school-based programs addressing nutrition and physical activity will be presented. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Identify 2 school-based programs related to nutrition and/or physical activity behavioral change. 2. Describe importance of obtaining students' perceptions potential interventions. | |||
| Patricia Markham Risica, Dr PH, RD | |||
| Childhood Obesity Prevention: A school-based pilot targeting educators, parents and children for the promotion of behavioral change Julie M. Reynolds, BA, Shelby T. Gonzales, BA, Meryl Rukenbrod, BS | |||
Goals for Health: Dietary Change Outcomes for Rural School-based Trial ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Elizabeth A. Fries, PhD, Aleta Meyer, PhD, Marilyn Buzzard, EdD, Samy Uguy, PhD, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, PhD, Steven Danish, PhD, Tanya Taylor, BS | |||
| School-Based Programs to Prevent Obesity and Metabolic Diseases in Young African, Latino and Native Americans: What works? What's promising? John P. Allegrante, PhD, Ray Marks, EdD | |||
| School-Based Weight Screening: The students' perspective Karrie Kalich, MS, RD, Virginia R. Chomitz, PhD, Robert McGowan, EdD, Aviva Must, PhD | |||
| Student perceptions of the school environment and its influence on nutrition and physical activity Erica V. Lamson, Donna B. Johnson, RD, PhD, Dawn B. Neill, MA | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Environment; Health Administration; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Nutrition | ||