The national school food program in the interpretation of Brazilian managers

Canada is one of the only member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) without a national school food program. Good nutrition impacts children’s health, wellbeing, and learning; and school food environments offer an important setting to promote health and other food system sustainability behaviours that can last a lifetime. We present an overview of national and international evidence, with a focus on promising practices that support the establishment of a national school food program in Canada. School food programs have been shown to benefit health and dietary behaviour and critical food literacy skills (learning, culture, and social norms) that support local agriculture and promote sustainable food systems. Finally, we make recommendations for key elements that should be included in a national school food program for Canada.

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School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program

10.3386/w29384 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jessie Handbury ◽

Sarah Moshary

Keyword(s):

Food Policy ◽

School Lunch ◽

National School Lunch Program ◽

School Food ◽

School Lunch Program ◽

National School ◽

Lunch Program ◽

School Food Policy

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School menus in Santa Catarina: Evaluation with respect to the National School Food Program regulations

Revista de Nutrição ◽

10.1590/1415-52732015000300005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 277-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Glenda Marreira Vidal ◽

Marcela Boro Veiros ◽

Anete Araújo de Sousa

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Evaluation ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Dietary Guidelines ◽

Family Farms ◽

High Fat ◽

School Food ◽

Santa Catarina ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

High Sodium ◽

National School

OBJECTIVE: To assess compliance of school menu planning with the National School Food Program's regulations. METHODS: This cross-sectional study analyzed 133 menus for 542 schools in 49 municipalities of the state of Santa Catarina. The menus were assessed according to the National School Food Program's regulations, the "Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population" and the "Qualitative Evaluation of Menu Components for Schools". The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. RESULTS: Nearly all (98.5%) municipalities met the requirement of technical responsibility for menu development and 81.0% acquired foods from family farms. The menus contained fruits (87.2%) and non-starchy vegetables (94.0%), but the frequencies of fruits and non-starchy vegetables were smaller than two to three times a week. The most common high-sodium and high-fat foods were commercially processed meats (53.0%), but their frequency was smaller than once a week. Likewise, the frequencies of beverages (natural fruit juice, coffee, and tea) were smaller than once a week. Most menus (85.1%) repeated foods during the week, and only 3.0% of the menus listed organic foods. CONCLUSION: Some school menus from Santa Catarina need to be revised with respect to the frequency of fruits and non-starchy vegetables, high-sugar foods, high-sodium foods, and high-fat foods, and need to increase food diversity and variety.

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Desafios à Atuação dos Conselhos de Alimentação Escolar ## Challenges to School Food Advice Activities

Amazônia Organizações e Sustentabilidade ◽

10.17648/aos.v9i2.2157 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 32

Author(s):

Hudson Augusto Silva de Castro ◽

Evaldo José da Silva ◽

Lidiane Nazaré da Silva Dias ◽

Cristiano Descovi Schimith

Keyword(s):

School Environment ◽

Financial Resources ◽

Technical Knowledge ◽

School Meals ◽

School Food ◽

School Feeding ◽

National School ◽

Feeding Program ◽

Data Source ◽

School Feeding Program

ResumoAinda hoje uma parcela da população brasileira tem como única refeição diária aquela que é servida no ambiente escolar. Desta forma, políticas públicas como o Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE) que, dentre outros objetivos, visa garantir a disponibilização da merenda escolar, precisam ter suas ações efetivadas. Para tanto, o controle social deve ser presente. O Conselho de Alimentação Escolar (CAE), portanto, deve atuar com o intuito de fiscalizar sua execução e apontar irregularidades nas ações. Assim sendo, vê-se como importante identificar o perfil dos membros desses conselhos e os fatores que impactam em sua atuação. Com o objetivo de identificar e analisar os desafios dos Conselhos de Alimentação Escolar para sua efetividade a partir dos fatores que impactam a ação dos conselheiros, a presente pesquisa utilizou como fonte de dados entrevista realizada com 37 conselheiros do estado do Pará. Como resultados identificou-se que a falta de conhecimentos técnicos, de transporte, de recursos financeiros e de local adequado para a realização de reuniões dificultam a realização das atividades dos Conselhos de Alimentação Escolar, o que leva ao questionamento se as políticas do PNAE estão de fato sendo efetivadas.AbstractEven today, a portion of the Brazilian population has the only daily meal that is served in the school environment. Thus, public policies such as the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), which, among other objectives, aims to ensure the availability of school meals, need to have their actions implemented. For that, social control must be present. The School Food Council (CAE), therefore, must act in order to inspect its execution and point out irregularities in the actions. Therefore, it is seen as important to identify the profile of the members of these boards and the factors that impact their performance. In order to identify and analyze the challenges of the School Meals Councils for their effectiveness based on the factors that impact the action of the counselors, this research used as a data source an interview with 37 counselors from the state of Pará. the lack of technical knowledge, transportation, financial resources, and an adequate place to hold meetings makes it difficult to carry out the activities of the School Meals Councils, which leads to the question of whether the policies of the PNAE are actually being implemented.

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Impact assessment of an intervention on the consumption of fruits and vegetables by students and teachers

Revista de Nutrição ◽

10.1590/1415-52732014000100006 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 55-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Silvia Cristina Farias ◽

Inês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro ◽

Virgínia Martins da Matta ◽

Luciana Maria Cerqueira Castro

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Fruits And Vegetables ◽

Educational Materials ◽

School Food ◽

National School ◽

Health Fair ◽

Fruits And Vegetables Intake ◽

The Impact ◽

Elementary Public Schools

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of an intervention that promoted the consumption of fruits and vegetables on the intake of these products by students and teachers in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil. METHODS: This is a one-group pretest-posttest study of students and teachers from elementary public schools in Rio de Janeiro. The intervention included a training course for promoting healthy eating; distribution of educational materials; and holding of a one-day health fair. We assessed the activities that had been carried out, teachers' habitual fruits and vegetables intake, students' fruits and vegetables intake at school, and intervention-related issues. RESULTS: Before the intervention, 65.1% of the students consumed the school lunch and most (>79.4%) accepted and consumed the fruits and vegetables served. Most teachers (>75.0%) consumed fruits and other vegetables regularly, but only 36.4% consumed leaf vegetables regularly. The intervention was implemented only moderately (52.7%) but was well accepted by the teachers. The students of schools that implemented the intervention more extensively showed better acceptance of vegetables (p=0.009). Teachers' fruits and vegetables intake did not change. CONCLUSION: Students' fruits and vegetables intake changed modestly. This study contributes to the design of intervention studies for Brazilian schools because it coordinated the National School Food Program with educational activities.

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The Food provision, cUlture and Environment in secondary schooLs (FUEL) study: protocol of a mixed methods evaluation of national School Food Standards implementation in secondary schools and their impact on pupils’ dietary intake and dental health

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042931 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. e042931

Author(s):

Marie Murphy ◽

Miranda Pallan ◽

Emma Lancashire ◽

Rhona Duff ◽

Ashley J Adamson ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Secondary Schools ◽

Dietary Intake ◽

Dental Health ◽

School Staff ◽

Free Sugar ◽

School Type ◽

School Food ◽

National School ◽

Food Standards ◽

Food Provision

IntroductionExcess free sugar intake is associated with obesity and poor dental health. Adolescents consume substantially more free sugar than is recommended. National (UK) School Food Standards (SFS) are in place but are not mandatory in all schools, and their impact on the diets of secondary school pupils is unknown. We aim to evaluate how SFS and wider healthy eating recommendations (from the national School Food Plan (SFP)) are implemented in secondary schools and how they influence pupils’ diets and dental health.Methods and analysisSecondary-level academies/free schools in the West Midlands, UK were divided into two groups: SFS mandated and SFS non-mandated. Using propensity scores to guide sampling, we aim to recruit 22 schools in each group. We will compare data on school food provision and sales, school food culture and environment, and the food curriculum from each group, collected through: school staff, governor, pupil, parent surveys; school documents; and observation. We will explore the implementation level for the SFS requirements and SFP recommendations and develop a school food typology. We aim to recruit 1980 pupils aged 11–15 years across the 44 schools and collect dietary intake (24-hour recall) and dental health data through self-completion surveys. We will compare free sugar/other dietary intake and dental health across the two SFS groups and across the identified school types. School type will be further characterised in 4–8 case study schools through school staff interviews and pupil focus groups. Evaluation of economic impact will be through a cost-consequence analysis and an exploratory cost–utility analysis.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was obtained from the University of Birmingham Ethical Review Committee (ERN_18-1738). Findings will be disseminated to key national and local agencies, schools and the public through reports, presentations, the media and open access publications.Trial registration numberISRCTN 68757496 (registered 17 October 2019).

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Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar no contexto do federalismo: Sob a ótica do gestor educacional

Education Policy Analysis Archives ◽

10.14507/epaa.27.4214 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 77

Author(s):

Rosaria Cal Bastos ◽

Magnus Luiz Emmendoerfer ◽

Amélia Carla Sobrinho Bifano ◽

Maria das Dores Saraiva Loreto

Keyword(s):

Healthy Eating ◽

Public Management ◽

Intergovernmental Relations ◽

Local Level ◽

Implementation Process ◽

School Food ◽

National School ◽

Integrated Performance ◽

The City

This article assumes that the local level managers of the National School Food Program (PNAE) faces challenges shaded by the organizational form of the State in Brazil at the time of the implementation of this policy. In this sense, the central objective is to analyze the aspects of federalism in the PNAE, drawing reflections for the educational managers on the process of PNAE implementation coordinated by the Union and its effects on intergovernmental relations. In addition, it is also showed the challenges faced by PNAE managers at the local level. In methodological terms, a case study, based on documents and interviews with semi-structured scripts, was applied to the PNAE managers, municipal and state, in the city of Coimbra, MG. The results indicated the differences in the guidelines and goals established in the PNAE planning at the local level due to the non-integrated performance of two federative entities, which generate difficulties for educational managers in terms of PNAE management. Therefore, considering the particularities of federalism in the context of the PNAE may bring new perspectives to this program to be an educational instrument that interconnects healthy eating and the nuances of the local culture, redesigning its formulation and implementation process, aiming to provide a better performance of public management, especially, toward schooling.

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Characteristics of the school food environment associated with hypertension and obesity in Brazilian adolescents: a multilevel analysis of the Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (ERICA)

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980019001010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (14) ◽

pp. 2625-2634 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Vivian SS Gonçalves ◽

Elisabeth C Duarte ◽

Eliane S Dutra ◽

Laura A Barufaldi ◽

Kênia MB Carvalho

Keyword(s):

Food Environment ◽

Multilevel Models ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Cardiovascular Risks ◽

School Food ◽

School Feeding ◽

National School ◽

Feeding Program ◽

School Food Environment ◽

School Feeding Program

AbstractObjective:To characterize the food environment in schools that participated in the Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (ERICA) and to identify individual and contextual factors associated with hypertension and obesity.Design:National school-based survey.Setting:Blood pressure, weight and height were measured, and characteristics of the schools were obtained in interviews with the principals. For each outcome, multilevel models of mixed effects were applied by logistic regression.Participants:School-going adolescents aged 12–17 years.Results:A total of 73 399 adolescents were evaluated. The prevalence of hypertension was 9·6 (95 % CI 9·0, 10·3) % and that of obesity was 8·4 (95 % CI 7·9, 8·9) %. Approximately 50 % of the adolescents were able to purchase food at school and in its immediate vicinity and 82 % had access to no-charge meals through Brazil’s National School Feeding Program. In the adjusted analysis, hypertension was associated (OR; 95 % CI) with the consumption of meals prepared on the school premises (0·79; 0·69, 0·92), the sale of food in the school’s immediate vicinity (0·67; 0·48, 0·95) and the purchase of food in the school cafeteria (1·29; 1·11, 1·49). It was observed that there were lower odds of obesity among students who were offered meals prepared on the school premises (0·68; 0·54, 0·87).Conclusions:High frequency of sales of ultra-processed foods in schools was identified. Contextual and individual characteristics in the school food environment were associated with hypertension and obesity, pointing to the need for regulation and supervision of these spaces.

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