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Community Preventive Services Task Force. 2017. Nutrition: Gardening interventions to increase vegetable consumption among children. Atlanta, GA: Community Preventive Services Task Force, multiple items

Annotation: This electronic resources describes school-based gardening interventions in combination with nutrition education to increase children's vegetable consumption. Gardening interventions provide children with hands-on experience planting, growing, and harvesting fruits and vegetables in an effort to increase their willingness to consume fruits and vegetables. Interventions include outside gardens, microfarms, container gardens, and other alternative gardening methods; interventions may also include nutrition education or a parental component. The website offers information gleaned from a systematic review of 14 studies published between January 2005 and October 2015 that examined gardening interventions conducted with children aged two to 18 years. There are links to Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020 and the CDC's Comprehensive Framework for Addressing the School Nutrition Environment and Services.

Keywords: Child health, Child nutrition, Community programs, Families, Fruit, Health promotion, Literature reviews, Local programs, Nutrition, School based programs, Vegetables

Community Preventive Services Task Force. 2016. Obesity: Meal or fruit and vegetable snack interventions to increase healthier foods and beverages provided by schools. Atlanta, GA: Community Preventive Services Task Force, multiple items

Annotation: This web resource provides the Community Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on meal interventions and fruit and vegetable snack interventions to increase the availability of healthier foods and beverages provided by schools. This finding is based on evidence that an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption can reduce or maintain the rate of obesity in children. The CPSTF recommends interventions in school settings that combine healthy eating with physical activity, or interventions that focus just on healthy eating or physical activity. These findings are based on a systematic review that focused on dietary approaches in schools. The website provides links to supporting materials and relevant publications.

Keywords: Child health, Child nutrition, Fruit, Health promotion, Literature reviews, Nutrition, Nutrition education, Obesity, Physical activity, School age children, School based programs, School lunch programs, Schools, Vegetables

Maryland Department of Agriculture. 2014. Maryland WIC farmer's market cookbook. [Baltimore, MD: Maryland Department of Agriculture], 24 pp.

Annotation: This cookbook for families enrolled in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides information on finding fresh, nutritious food at farmer's markets. Topics include reasons to shop at a farmer's market and how to use WIC checks to buy fruit and vegetables in season at the farmer's market. Additional contents include tips on food safety, storage, and preparation; recipes; a list of farmers' markets in Maryland; and information from national public health campaigns for pregnant women.

Keywords: Children, Cookbooks, Food handling, Fruit, Infants, Maryland, Nutrition, Pregnant women, Recipes, State programs, Vegetables, WIC Program

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2005. 5 a day works!. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 117 pp.

Annotation: This publication, which advocates a diet that includes five to nine servings of fruit and vegetables a day, is a collection of innovative programs and interventions that promote healthy eating. Topics covered include (1) environmental innovations (such as farmers markets and restaurants), (2) event and media innovations, (3) partnerships and coalitions, (4) youth innovations, and (5) program resumes. Two appendices includes references and an index of programs.

Keywords: Community programs, Fruit, Health promotion, Intervention, Local programs, Mass media, Nutrition, State programs, Vegetables, Youth

Hastert TA, Babey SH, Diamant AL, Brown ER. 2005. More California teens consume soda and fast food each day than five servings of fruits and vegetables. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 7 pp. (Health policy research brief)

Annotation: This policy brief examines consumption of soda, fast food, and fruits and vegetables by adolescents based on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey. Topics include estimates of soda and fast food consumption; gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors in consumption patterns; availability of soda and fast food in schools, and impacts on consumption of fruit and vegetables. Policy recommendations are presented. Statistical information is presented in charts throughout the brief. References are also provided.

Keywords: Adolescent nutrition, Beverages, Food habits, Food preferences, School food services, Vegetables

Buzby JC, Guthrie JF, Kantor LS. 2003. Evaluation of the USDA fruit and vegetable pilot program: Report to Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Services, 24 pp.

Annotation: This report provides an early review of the United States Department of Agriculture's Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program, in which the program provided fresh and dried fruit and fresh vegetables free to children in 107 elementary and secondary schools. The report includes a summary, an overview of the program, a description of the evaluation plan, and evaluation findings. Three appendices include legislative language of the program, program schools, and program data. Statistical information is presented in tables throughout the report. The report also contains a bibliography.

Keywords: Adolescent nutrition, Child nutrition, Elementary schools, Evaluation, Fruit, Nutrition programs, Pilot projects, Secondary schools, Vegetables
   

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