School Nutrition and Activity Impacts on Well-Being

Part I: Overview and Rationale

Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis; Sameera Karnik and Amar Kanekar

Reading, Writing, and Obesity: America’s Failing Grade in School Nutrition and Physical Education; Jason Schaub and Mary Marian

Effectiveness of a School-Community Linked Program on Physical Activity Levels and Health-Related Quality of Life for Adolescent Girls; Meghan M. Casey, Jack T. Harvey, Amanda Telford, Rochelle M. Eime, Amanda Mooney, and Warren R. Payne

A Repeated Measures Experiment of Green Exercise to Improve Self-Esteem in UK School Children; Katharine Reed, Carly Wood, Jo Barton, Jules N. Pretty, Daniel Cohen, and Gavin R. H. Sandercock

Long-Term Effect of a School-Based Physical Activity Program (KISS) on Fitness and Adiposity in Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial; Ursina Meyer, Christian Schindler, Lukas Zahner, Dominique Ernst, Helge Hebestreit, Willem van Mechelen,

Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Jardena J. Puder, and Susi Kriemler

School Programs and Characteristics and Their Influence on Student BMI: Findings from Healthy Passages; Tracy K. Richmond, Marc N. Elliott, Luisa Franzini, Ichiro Kawachi, Margaret O. Caughy, M. Janice Gilliland, Courtney E. Walls, Frank A. Franklin, Richard Lowry, Stephen W. Banspach, and Mark A. Schuster

Moderating Influences of Baseline Activity Levels in School Physical Activity Programming for Children: The Ready for Recess Project; Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Gregory J. Welk, Daniel W. Russell, and Jennifer Huberty

School-based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco; Adele L Franks, Steven H Kelder, Geri A Dino, Kimberly A Horn, Steven L Gortmaker, Jean L Wiecha, and Eduardo J Simoes

Associations Between Eating Frequency, Adiposity, Diet, and Activity in 9–10-Year-Old Healthy-Weight and Centrally Obese Children; Amy Jennings, Aedín Cassidy, Esther M.F. van Sluijs, Simon J. Griffin and Ailsa A. Welch

Systematic Review of the Health Benefits of Physical Activity and Fitness in School-Aged Children and Youth; Ian Janssen and Allana G. LeBlanc

Rethinking the Role That School Meals Play for Health and Nutrition Education: A European Perspective; Bent Egberg Mikkelsen

From "Best Practice" To "Next Practice": The Effectiveness of School-Based Health Promotion in Improving Healthy Eating and Physical Activity and Preventing Childhood Obesity; Christina Fung, Stefan Kuhle, Connie Lu, Megan Purcell, Marg Schwartz, Kate Storey, and Paul J Veugelers

School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Recommendations and Reports

Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Index

Biography

Areej Hassan MD, MPH, is an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School as well as an attending physician at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She completed her pediatric residency at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, prior to training in adolescent medicine at Boston Children’s. In addition to primary care, Dr. Hassan focuses her clinical interests on reproductive endocrinology and international health. She also maintains an active role in medical education and has particular interest in building and developing innovative teaching tools through open educational resources. She currently teaches, consults, and is involved in pediatric and adolescent curricula development at multiple sites abroad in Central America and Southeast Asia.

"This volume is not a ready reference but under the editorship of Hassan…it arranges in one place a vast amount of literature on an increasingly important topic."
—ARBA