Marketing Foods and Beverages in Schools: The Effect of School Food Policy on Students’ Overweight Measures

Dority, Bree L.; McGarvey, Mary G.; Kennedy, Patricia F.

doi:10.1509/jppm.29.2.204

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“…Numerous educational marketing campaigns raise children's awareness of the benefits of good nutrition and exercise, and some children are concerned about sustainability issues such as wasteful consumption and environmental degradation [21]. Francis and Davis [4] develop a scale to measure adolescents' sustainability concerns (ASC).…”

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Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Actions on South Korean Adolescents’ Perceptions in the Food Industry

2017

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Our objective in this study is to understand how adolescents respond to the food industry's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, especially the effects of such activities on consumers' emotional responses, perceived authenticity, and attitudes toward the company. Understanding which types of CSR actions most influence adolescents is important for managers. This study examines adolescents' responses to three types of CSR actions (career-related, environment-related, and wellbeing-related) across two types of products (unhealthy and healthy foods). We find that CSR actions related to career issues have the greatest effects on adolescents' emotional responses, perceived authenticity, and attitudes toward a company under the condition of healthy food products. In other words, when a healthy food company offers a career-related CSR program, adolescents have better responses than when an unhealthy food company offers the same CSR program.

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Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Actions on South Korean Adolescents’ Perceptions in the Food Industry

2017

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“…9,13 Specific policy solutions for reducing obesity include regulating the food environment by restricting competitive food and fundraiser sales, 14–16 using price incentives and other strategies to engage students in healthy eating, 13,17,18 and eliminating advertisements for unhealthy products in schools. 13,19 School policies related to the availability of healthy food are a plausible mechanism by which disparities in obesity and related health behaviors might arise. However, little is known about how policies and practices vary at the school level by geography, socioeconomic status, and racial and economic composition of students at the school.…”

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Disparities Persist in Nutrition Policies and Practices in Minnesota Secondary Schools

Caspi¹,

Davey²,

Nelson³

et al. 2015

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Access to healthy foods among secondary school students is patterned by individual-level socioeconomic status, but few studies have examined how school nutrition policies and practices are patterned by school-level characteristics. The objective of this study was to examine school nutrition policies and practices by school characteristics (location, racial/ethnic composition and free/reduced priced lunch eligibility [FRPL]) in Minnesota secondary schools between 2008 and 2012. Data from the 2008 to 2012 Minnesota School Health Profiles survey were used to assess school nutrition policies and practices, and National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) data were used for school characteristics (n = 505 secondary schools). Nutrition policies and practices included: 1) the availability of low-nutrient, energy dense (LNED) items, 2) strategies to engage students in healthy eating, and 3) restrictions on advertisements of LNED products in areas around the school. Among school-level characteristics, school location was most strongly related to school nutrition policies. Across all years, city schools were less likely than town/rural schools to have vending machines/school stores [prevalence difference (PD)=13.7, 95% confidence interval (CI) -25.0,-2.3], and less likely to sell sports drinks (PD= -36.3, 95% CI: -51.8, -20.7). City schools were also more likely to prohibit advertisements for LNED products in school buildings (PD=17.7, 95% CI: 5.5, 29.9) and on school grounds (PD=15.6, 95% CI: 1.7, 29.5). Between 2008 and 2012 the prevalence of some healthy eating policies/practices (limiting salty snacks, offering taste testing, banning unhealthy food advertisements in school publications) declined in city schools only, where these policies/practices had previously been more common. Monitoring of these trends is needed to understand the impact of these policies on student outcomes across school settings.

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“…Dialogue on the topic has been limited by the lack of longitudinal evidence regarding the association between school nutrition policies and student weight status. Research has suggested that competitive food policies are associated with improvements in the school food environment, student dietary intake, or weight outcomes, [28][29][30][31][32][33][34] but most studies were cross-sectional or limited to individual states. A recent study reported no association between competitive food sales and weight gain, but it was based on school administrator surveys rather than independent review of codified laws.…”

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Weight Status Among Adolescents in States That Govern Competitive Food Nutrition Content

Taber¹,

Chriqui²,

et al. 2012

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Policies that govern nutrition standards of foods and beverages sold outside of federal meal programs ("competitive foods") have been associated with adolescent weight status in a small number of cross-sectional studies and pre-post analyses in individual states. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This longitudinal analysis of 6300 students in 40 states provides evidence that state competitive food laws are associated with lower within-student BMI change if laws contain strong language with specific standards and are consistent across grade levels. (2003) and within-student changes in BMI, overweight status, and obesity status. Fixed-effect models estimated the association between law changes during follow-up (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006) and within-student changes in BMI and weight status.RESULTS: Students exposed to strong laws at baseline gained, on average, 0.25 fewer BMI units (95% confidence interval: 20.54, 0.03) and were less likely to remain overweight or obese over time than students in states with no laws. Students also gained fewer BMI units if exposed to consistently strong laws throughout follow-up (b = 20.44, 95% confidence interval: 20.71, 20.18). Conversely, students exposed to weaker laws in 2006 than 2003 had similar BMI gain as those not exposed in either year. CONCLUSIONS:Laws that regulate competitive food nutrition content may reduce adolescent BMI change if they are comprehensive, contain strong language, and are enacted across grade levels. Pediatrics 2012;130:437-444 AUTHORS:

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Marketing Foods and Beverages in Schools: The Effect of School Food Policy on Students’ Overweight Measures

Cited by 42 publications

References 29 publications

Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Actions on South Korean Adolescents’ Perceptions in the Food Industry

Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Actions on South Korean Adolescents’ Perceptions in the Food Industry

Disparities Persist in Nutrition Policies and Practices in Minnesota Secondary Schools

Weight Status Among Adolescents in States That Govern Competitive Food Nutrition Content

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