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NUTRITION EDUCATION
IN THE K-12 CURRICULUM

THE ROLE OF NATIONAL STANDARDS

Workshop Summary

Steve Olson and Sheila Moats, Rapporteurs

Food and Nutrition Board
Board on Children, Youth, and Families

 

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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL NUTRITION EDUCATION CURRICULUM STANDARDS1

KAREN WEBER CULLEN (Chair), Professor of Pediatrics-Nutrition, USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

KAREN CHAPMAN-NOVAKOFSKI, Professor, Nutrition and Extension Specialist, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana

PATRICIA CRAWFORD, Adjunct Professor and Director, Atkins Center for Weight & Health, University of California, Berkeley

ROBERT CROSNOE, Professor, Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

CARLETTE KYSER PEGRAM, Education Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

KARLA P. SHELNUTT, Assistant Professor and Extension Nutrition Specialist, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville

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SHEILA MOATS, Program Officer

KAREN CAMPION, Research Assistant

ALLISON BERGER, Senior Program Assistant

FAYE HILLMAN, Financial Associate

GERALDINE KENNEDO, Administrative Assistant

LINDA D. MEYERS, Director, Food and Nutrition Board

KIMBER BOGARD, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families

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1 Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.

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Reviewers

This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the workshop summary meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this workshop summary:

Sharon L. Contreras, The Syracuse City School District

Tracy Fox, Food, Nutrition, and Policy Consultants, LLC

Brian J. Griffith, Maryland State Department of Education

Pam Koch, Teachers College, Columbia University

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the workshop summary before its release. The review of this workshop summary was overseen by Melvin Worth. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this workshop summary was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this workshop summary rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the institution.

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The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems. Approximately one-third of America's young people are overweight or obese. Health problems once seen overwhelmingly in adults, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, are increasingly appearing in youth. Though the health of Americans has improved in many broad areas for decades, increases in obesity could erode these and future improvements. The IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation recognized the importance of the school environment in addressing the epidemic and recommended making schools a focal point for obesity prevention. The development and implementation of K-12 nutrition benchmarks, guides, or standards (for a discussion of these terms, see the next section of this chapter) would constitute a critical step in achieving this recommendation. National nutrition education curriculum standards could have a variety of benefits, including the following:

  • Improving the consistency and effectiveness of nutrition education in schools;
  • Preparing and training teachers and other education staff to help them provide effective nutrition education;
  • Assisting colleges and universities in the development of courses in nutrition as part of teacher certification and in updating methods courses on how to integrate nutrition education in subject-matter areas in the classroom and in materials; and
  • Establishing a framework for future collaborative efforts and partnerships to improve nutrition education.

Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum: The Role of National Standards is a summary of the workshop's presentations and discussions prepared from the workshop transcript and slides. This summary presents recommendations made by individual speakers.

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