Adolescents' views on high school food environments.

CONCLUSIONS: Emerging results indicate that adolescents do not perceive the current high school food environments as helping them to make healthy food choices. Adolescents suggested limiting unhealthy foods in high schools by implementing strict food and beverage policies, compulsory nutrition education classes and changing attitudes towards healthy foods as strategies to improve high school food environments. SO WHAT?: This study highlights the importance of high school food environments in impacting adolescents' food choices. Strategies identified by adolescents inform public health practitioners and school authorities on how high school food environments could be tailored to help them in making better food choices. PMID: 32619026 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32619026?dopt=Abstract

Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - July 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Health Promot J Austr Source Type: research