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7 Upgrading Food and Physical Activity Options Before, During, and After School in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Pages 71-80

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...  Out-of-school time programs before, during, and after the school day can complement and augment the efforts of schools to encourage physical activity and healthy eating. (Hinkle)
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From page 72...
... laid out in Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention and the influence of broader social inequities on schools. Rodney Taylor, director of nutrition services for the Riverside Unified School District in Riverside, California, described the food service program he has created in the Riverside schools, which could be a model for comparable programs across the country.
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From page 73...
... As Thompson observed, a school gym can be a community gym after school and a gym for faith-based organizations on the weekend. The second strategy for schools in Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention is to ensure strong nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold or provided through schools, while the third is to ensure food literacy, including skill development, in schools.
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From page 74...
... Thompson CASE STUDY: FOOD SERVICES IN THE RIVERSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Summary of Remarks by Rodney Taylor The Riverside Unified School District is the fifteenth largest school district in California, with 47 schools serving 43,000 students, 68 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced-price meals (California Department of Education, 2013a,b)
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From page 75...
... Salad bars are now in all 31 elementary schools in the Riverside district. Children encounter the salad bar first and then are offered the hot lunch entrée or an alternate protein with grain.
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From page 76...
... The school system is continuing to experiment with and expand its nutrition programs. For example, the chef for the district developed five different rubs that could be applied to the government commodity chicken -- rotisserie, barbeque, lemon herb, grilled ranch, and sesame.
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... "When we get serious about education, we will get serious about ensuring that every child is fed in the morning, prepared, and ready to go to school. You can't focus and you can't learn when you are hungry." -- Rodney Taylor OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME Summary of Remarks by Arnell Hinkle In addition to their time in school, youth spend considerable time in out-of-school programs -- after-school programs, summer camps, church activities, community-based programs, and so on.
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From page 78...
... As an example of such strategies, Hinkle mentioned the E-Advocates project, in which youth create YouTube videos, tweets, and Facebook entries about health activities in their communities.3 Another example is the Oakland Unified School District's After School Learning Community,4 in which staff from after-school sites are encouraged to think of themselves as community advocates for physical activity. CANFIT also serves on state and local policy groups and provides technical assistance for several foundation initiatives.
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From page 79...
... Because food and beverage companies are being shut out of schools, they are marketing heavily in after-school settings. To illustrate, Hinkle cited instances of soft drink companies donating millions of dollars to charitable organizations that serve children (Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2013; PepsiCo, Inc., 2012; Public Health Law & Policy, 2011)
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From page 80...
...  Educate out-of-school programs about joint-use agreements.  Promote physical activity programming that provides lifelong skills (such as swimming, walking, yoga, Tai Chi, martial arts, dance, and community walks and races)
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