Action for Healthy Kids New Mexico AFHK State Team

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School Meals

• Action for Healthy Kids New Mexico AFHK State
  Team

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Objectives

• Describe the history of the school meal program
• Review the requirements of the school meal
  program
• Identify the expenses and reimbursement rates of
  school meals
• Compare the nutritional quality of competitive
  foods to school meals
• Review the components of the Reauthorization Act
  of 2004

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Action For Healthy Kids Our Philosophy

• Help the Greatest Number of Childrenby Changing
  their Environment

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Rising to the Challenge Action for Healthy
Kids (AFHK)

• Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is the only
  nonprofit organization addressing the epidemic
  of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth
  by focusing on changes at school.
• Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher
  serving as the founding chair
• Formed in 2002in collaboration with morethan 40
  partnersin response to the SurgeonGenerals
  Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease
  Overweight and Obesity
• Launched at the 2002 Healthy Schools Summit for
  which First Lady Laura Bush served as Honorary
  Chairperson

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Rising to the Challenge Action for Healthy
Kids (AFHK)

• AFHK represents a unique initiative comprised of
  anational and state volunteer network of more
  than4,000 people that spans the areas of
• Education
• Health
• Fitness
• Nutrition
• Public Sector
• Government
• Industry representation

Parents Teachers
Doctors Legislators
Volunteers
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AFHK Our Three Main Thrusts

• 1) Improving students eating habits
• Increasing access to nutritious foods
  andbeverages throughout the school campus
• Integrating nutrition education into their
  curriculum

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AFHK Our Three Main Thrusts

• Increasing students physical activity
• Adding or maintaining physical education
  courses and recess
• Promoting after-school and co-curricular
  programs

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AFHK Our Three Main Thrusts

• Educating administrators, teachers, students and
  parents about how nutrition and physical activity
  impact academic achievement

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School Feeding

• 15,000 school districts
• 99,000 schools
• 28 million students eat school lunch
• 8.1 million students eat school breakfast
• Over 36 million meals served per day

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Program History

• 1946 President Harry S. Truman signed National
  School Lunch Act
• Authorized the National School Lunch Program
• Public and nonprofit private school and
  residential childcare institutions may
  participate
• In the long view, no nation is any healthier
  than its children or more prosperous than its
  farmers and in the National School Lunch Act,
  the Congress has contributed immeasurably both to
  the welfare of our farmers and the health of our
  children.
• President Harry S. Truman

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School Meal Programs

• Provide nutritionally balanced meals and snacks
  at regular cost, low cost, or free to children
• Operate in public and private schools
• Federally assisted meal programs

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Program History

• National School Lunch Act 1946
• Special Milk Program 1966
• School Breakfast Program 1975
• Summer Food Service Program 1975
• After School Snack Program - 1998

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Administration

• US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and
  Nutrition Service
• State Education Agencies
• Local Food Authority

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National School Lunch Program

• In FY 2005 the program cost 7.9 billion
• 28 million students eat school lunch each day
• Schools receive cash subsidies and donated
  commodities for meals served
• Schools must meet federal requirements
• Schools must offer free or reduced price lunch to
  eligible students
• Schools are audited and reviewed by local state
  agencies

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Free Reduced Price Meals

• Based on family income
• Families complete one application for all
  students enrolled each year
• Free meals income 130 of poverty level
• Reduced price meals (0.40) income between 130
  and 185 of poverty level

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Nutritional Requirements

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• 30 calories from fat
• 10 calories from saturated fat
• Lunch 1/3 RDA
• Breakfast ¼ RDA
• Calories
• Protein
• Vitamin A C
• Iron
• Calcium
• Nutrients are averaged over each school week

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Reimbursement

• For each meal or snack served under the National
  School Meal Programs, schools receive cash
  reimbursement

2006 2007 USDA reimbursement rates
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School Meal Program Expenses

• School food service is expected to be a self
  supporting business
• Program expenses
• Administrative staff, cafeteria staff, support
  staff
• Food
• Food deliveries, storage, distribution
• Equipment repairs, maintenance, improvements
• Other staff training, nutrition education,
  promotions, advertising

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Benefits of School Meal Programs

• 13 million children in America are hungry or are
  at risk of hunger
• Hunger impairs a childs ability to learn
• Studies show eating a good lunch and breakfast
  can help students perform better academically
• School meal programs offer a first line of
  defense against childhood hunger
• School meal programs support a comprehensive
  school health program

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Research

• Numerous studies have shown that school breakfast
  improves attendance, behavior, and academic
  performance
• A Michigan Study found students who ate school
  lunches were more likely to meet dietary
  recommendations than students who ate lunches
  brought from home
• Girls in food insecure households were found to
  have a lower risk of overweight if they
  participated in the National School Meal Programs
  (Arch Ped Adol Med, 2003)

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Competitive Foods

• Competitive Foods
• foods offered or sold at school, other than meals
  served through the National School Meals Program
• Foods of minimal nutritional value (FMNV)
• Carbonated beverages (soda), water ices, gum,
  sugar based candies
• Competitive foods include food and beverages sold
  in vending machines, school stores, snack bars,
  fundraisers, and by food services a la carte.

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Competitive Foods

• What is a king size bag of
• Flamin Hot Cheetos and a
• 20-oz soda
• providing children?

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It provides . . .

• 810 Calories
• 35 Grams of fat
• 7 grams of saturated fat
• 67.5 grams of sugar
• almost 17 teaspoons of sugar
• and no other nutrients!

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Compared to School Lunch

• 660 calories
• 22g fat
• 7g saturated fat
• 28 g protein
• 1/3 RDA for
• Calcium
• Iron
• Vitamin A and C

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Reauthorization

• Signed by President Bush June, 2004.
• Reauthorizes all Child Nutrition Programs.
• New components/requirements
• Improved access, direct certification,
  elimination of reduced price status, summer
  programs
• Food Safety Policy
• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Pilot expansion
• Local Wellness Policy, nutrition and physical
  activity

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Wellness Policies

• Reaches beyond USDA-funded meal programs to
  influence childhood health
• Puts responsibility at the local level
• Recognizes the critical role of schools in
  curbing the epidemic of childhood overweight
• Provides an opportunity for school districts to
  create an environment conducive to healthy
  lifestyle choices

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Wellness Policies

• Nutrition education goals
• Physical activity goals
• Nutrition guidelines for all foods beverages
• Student wellness activity goals

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Resources

• USDA Food and Nutrition Services
  http//www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/
• School Nutrition Association http//www.asfsa.org/
  
• Team Nutrition http//www.fns.usda.gov/tn/
• National Food Service Management Institute
  http//www.nfsmi.org/
• Action for Healthy Kids http//www.actionforhealth
  ykids.org

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Summary

• School meals provide nutritionally balanced, low
  cost or free meals and snacks to children
• School meals are administered by the federal
  government and must meet rules and regulations
• School meals meet nutritional requirements that
  competitive foods do not
• Wellness polices are opportunities to improve the
  nutrition and physical activity environments of
  schools

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Our WebsiteA Discerning Clearinghouse
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Thank you!Questions?

• www.actionforhealthykids.org
• name
• contact information