Health Education: Volume 115 Issue 2

“Most of them are junk food but we did put fruit on there and we have water”: What children can tell us about the food choices they make

Suzanne Waddingham, Stella Stevens, Kate Macintyre, Kelly Shaw

The Australian Dietary Guidelines support good health and disease prevention. Children with healthy eating habits established early in life have been shown to continue these…

Associations between grades and physical activity and food choices: Results from YRBS from a large urban school district

Anastasia Snelling, Sarah Irvine Belson, Jonathan Beard, Kathleen Young

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between television viewing time, physical activity level, food consumption patterns, and academic performance of…

Food for thought: analysing the internal and external school food environment

Mary Callaghan, Michal Molcho, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Colette Kelly

– Availability and access to food is a determinant of obesity. The purpose of this paper is to examine food availability within and outside of post-primary schools in Ireland.

A mobile farmers’ market brings nutrition education to low-income students

Devin Ellsworth, Jenny Ernst, Anastasia Snelling

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of a nutrition-education intervention delivered at low-income middle schools in Washington, DC in the USA, using a mobile…

Increasing primary school children’s fruit and vegetable consumption: A review of the food dudes programme

Charlotte Taylor, Penney Upton, Dominic Upton

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the evidence base of the Food Dudes healthy eating programme, specifically the short- and long-term effectiveness of the intervention for…

Interventions to increase free school meal take-up

Jenny Woodward, Pinki Sahota, Jo Pike, Rosie Molinari

The purpose of this paper is to design and implement interventions to increase free school meal (FSM) uptake in pilot schools. This paper describes the interventions, reports on…

Impact of an intuitive eating education program on high school students’ eating attitudes

Nicole Healy, Elana Joram, Oksana Matvienko, Suzanne Woolf, Kimberly Knesting

There is a growing need for school-based nutritional educational programs that promote healthy eating attitudes without increasing an unhealthy focus on restrictive eating or…

Diet, food and eating and the health promoting school

Katherine Weare