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Estimate the percentage of children who face childhood obesity.

For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years in 2017-2018:
The prevalence of obesity was 19.3% and affected about 14.4 million children and adolescents.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

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Mean- 45.55
Median-41.5
Mode-30
St. Dev.-19.89

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https://www.farmtoschool.org/

This organization enriches communities by focusing on providing schools with healthy, fresh food grown by local farmers/producers. Through this organization, students receive not only healthy, farm fresh food through their school/organization, but also gain access to more education surrounding living a healthy lifestyle. For instance, some of the education incorporated within this organization is growing gardens at school, taking class field trips to local farms, and even learning how to cook healthy foods. This organization helps students and families learn how to make informed decisions about the food and overall health. With the resources provided, communities are able to live a better, more healthy lifestyle by changing their eating habits as well as helping the environment. This organization also is nationwide and provides resources depending on what state you are located in. Moreover, this organization partners up with different corporations and businesses as well as people who are willing to donate to help communities change for the better.

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We've launched a new weekly e-newsletter to share a roundup of helpful new resources and information with farm to school and farm to ECE stakeholders.

New data from the USDA Farm to School Census is here! Among the highlights: $1.26 billion was spent on local food purchases by SFAs during SY 2018-2019.

October is National Farm to School Month! Check out our resources and ideas for planning and celebrating National Farm to School Month in your community.

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We've launched a new weekly e-newsletter to share a roundup of helpful new resources and information with farm to school and farm to ECE stakeholders. New data from the USDA Farm to School Census is here! Among the highlights: $1.26 billion was spent on local food purchases by SFAs during SY 2018-2019.

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Children (Ages 5-14) who experience childhood obesity simply do not exercise or have a balanced diet.

Psychological factors- Personal, parental and family stress can increase a child's risk of obesity. Some children overeat to cope with problems.
Socioeconomic factors- People in some communities have limited resources and limited access to supermarkets.
Certain medications- Some prescription drugs can increase the risk of developing obesity.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-obesity/symptoms-causes/syc-20354827

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Non Profit Organization- Action for Healthy Kids

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Non Profit Organization- Action for Healthy Kids

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https://www.actionforhealthykids.org/
This organization is a non-profit that helps brings families and schools together to help community members have access to healthy, nutritious food while also allowing kids to stay active in a safe, fun environment. Within this organization, there are multiple programs to help ensure better nutrition as well as access to more physical activity. One program that Action for Healthy Kids has is EnergizEd, which aims to implement more physical activity in schools for children, since the hours spent on the screen is increasing, while hours of physical exercise is decreasing. EnergizEd focuses on time spent outside of Physical Education. Meaning, planning activities within the classroom that allow students to move around and become more involved, not only in their health, but also within the lesson plan/classroom. Physical activity has multiple benefits, including more engagement, which is what EnergizEd is aiming to do, along with other goals as well.

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Our Mission

We help kids thrive by bringing families and schools together to ensure students have access to safe places to play and be active, nutritious foods, and healthy, supportive experiences.

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We help kids thrive to ensure students have access to safe places to play, be active, nutritious foods, and healthy, supportive experiences.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/well/feeding-young-minds-the-importance-of-school-lunches.html

This article covers a lot of important information about children and school lunches. Jane E. Brody, from The New York Times, talks about how a school in Minnesota is thriving with offering good food and nutrition to their students. Almost 90% of their students are minorities and nearly 90% come from poor or struggling families. With that, they still graduate 90% of their students. He also mentions that adequate food and good nutrition have a huge impact on academic success. This is shown by their graduation totals. It is important for schools to offer students breakfast. Harding Senior High offers breakfast to all students to after first period. The staff at this school have done many studies on hungry, malnourished and obese children. All of these affect the education of students negatively. In 2010, many changes began to happen. Michelle Obama created many Acts that revamped school lunches. Lunches started to offer more vegetables, fruits, whole grains and age appropriate calories. Schools were also offered meal reimbursement funds to help prompt them to participate. Many children suffer from obesity, hunger and malnutrition, this has many negative effects on children, but it is a known fact that children suffering from one of these will have a harder time learning, paying attention in school, and score lower on testing. Offering free meal options, especially breakfast, can improve school attendance, behavior, concentration and overall academic performance. Overall, the meals children eat can have a major effect on a child's education. It is important that schools offer healthy, nutritional food to their students.

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Personal Health

Credit... Paul Rogers

Harding Senior High, a public school in St. Paul, Minn., has long been known as a 90-90-90 school: 90 percent of students are minorities, nearly 90 percent come from poor or struggling families and, until recently, 90 percent graduate (now about 80 percent) to go on to college or a career.

Impressive statistics, to be sure. But perhaps most amazing about this school is that it recognizes and acts on the critical contribution that adequate food and good nutrition make to academic success. Accordingly, it provides three balanced meals a day to all its students, some of whom might otherwise have little else to eat on school days.

For those who can't get to school in time for early breakfast, a substitute meal is offered after first period, to be eaten during the second period. Every student can pick up dinner at the end of the school day, and those who play sports after school can take the dinner with them to practices and games.

To Jennifer Funkhauser, a French teacher at Harding and a hands-on participant in the meal program, making sure the students are well fed is paramount to their ability to succeed academically. Ms. Funkhauser and the staff at Harding are well aware of the many studies showing that children who are hungry or malnourished have a hard time learning.

After she noticed that some youngsters were uncomfortable eating with hundreds of others in a large, noisy lunchroom, Ms. Funkhauser created a more private, quieter "lunch bunch" option for them.

The attitude and atmosphere at Harding are in stark contrast to the humiliating lunchroom experiences suffered by students at some schools, where youngsters are sometimes shamed in front of their classmates and their meals confiscated and dumped in the garbage when parents have an unpaid lunch bill.

A recent article in The New York Times pointed out this appalling practice. My Jewish friends and I called it "a shanda," which is Yiddish for a scandal, a disgrace, an embarrassment.

But current problems with school lunch go far beyond shaming innocent children. After major improvements championed by the Obama administration in the nutritional value of school meals were already underway, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives and now the Trump administration have begun to undermine them.

In 2010, spurred by the advocacy of Michelle Obama, Congress enacted the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, revamping the nation's school lunch program to increase servings of vegetables, fruits and whole grains, provide age-appropriate calories, remove dangerous trans fats and limit levels of sodium. Schools were given incentives in the form of meal reimbursement funds to prompt them to participate.

Alas, in the fiscal-year 2015 Agriculture Appropriations bill, the House included waivers allowing schools that had a six-month net loss of revenue for any reason to opt out of providing the healthier meals outlined in the 2010 act, Dr. Jennifer Woo Baidal, a pediatrician affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Now, just days into his tenure as Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, former governor of Georgia, rolled back the timetable by at least three years for reducing the high levels of salt in school lunches. The rollback will also allow schools to serve refined grains and 1-percent-fat flavored milk, instead of nonfat. Will progress on vegetables and fruits, calories and other fats be next on the chopping block?

Providing adequate amounts of nutritious food in schools is more important than many realize. "Students who eat regular, healthy meals are less likely to be tired, are more attentive in class, and retain more information," Sean Patrick Corcoran, associate professor of economics and education policy at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, told The Atlantic.

In fact, well-designed studies have demonstrated that "students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch vendor score higher" on statewide achievement tests, Michael L. Anderson of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues reported in April. They showed a 4-percentile improvement in test scores above those achieved in schools with less healthy meals.

"While this effect is modest in magnitude, the relatively low cost of healthy vendors when compared to in-house meal preparation makes this a very cost-effective way to raise test scores," the researchers concluded.

In Minnesota, where 10 percent of households are considered "food insecure" and one child in six risks hunger, Wilder Research reported in 2014 that improved school nutrition is a "major component of Minnesota's Statewide Health Improvement Program." The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, in St. Paul, described studies showing that simply providing free breakfast can result in better school attendance, improved behavior and concentration and better academic performance.

Clearly, an expansive food program at schools like Harding Senior High bears replication nationwide, not cutbacks.

"Nutrition can affect learning through three channels: physical development (e.g., sight), cognition (e.g., concentration, memory), and behavior (e.g., hyperactivity)," the Berkeley team wrote. For example, they explained, diets high in trans and saturated fats have a negative impact on learning and memory, reducing substances in the body that support cognitive processing and increasing the risk of neurological dysfunction.

Schools have complained that children don't like the healthier meals and are more likely to throw the food away. However, an analysis of three large studies by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that under the improved nutrition rules, food waste actually declined in 12 Connecticut schools; children consumed more fruits and vegetables in eight elementary schools in southeast Texas; and in four elementary schools studied by the Harvard School of Public Health, children ate more of their entree and vegetable servings and more children took a serving of fruit.

A study conducted by Cornell University researchers at a New York high school in 2012 found that making healthier foods more convenient for students increased their sale by 18 percent and decreased the grams of unhealthy foods consumed by nearly 28 percent.

An earlier Cornell study found that simply moving the salad bar from a corner of the lunchroom to the center increased the sales and consumption of this healthier fare. Offering students a choice between two vegetable options and having them pay cash for unhealthy items like desserts and soft drinks, the findings suggested, may enhance consumption of healthier foods without reducing revenue or participation in school lunch programs. While the studies are not conclusive, they suggest that with a few simple steps, schools may have an impact on the foods students eat.

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Feeding Young Minds: The Importance of School Lunches

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Personal Health Harding Senior High, a public school in St. Paul, Minn., has long been known as a 90-90-90 school: 90 percent of students are minorities, nearly 90 percent come from poor or struggling families and, until recently, 90 percent graduate (now about 80 percent) to go on to college or a career.

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Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH)

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Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH)

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This article discusses many ways that Seattle and King County have helped its community to become healthier. Through partnerships and lifestyle changes, Seattle hopes to change their community for the better. Slowly but surely, King County has been breaking down barriers that involve inequity when it comes to food, food sources, and overall environments for a healthier lifestyle. Better quality food, more green spaces for physical activity, and less tobacco infested spaces help keep the community healthier. Not only educating the public on why eating good, nutritious food is beneficial for your overall health, but also being able to help provide fresh food for community members has helped reduce the risk of diabetes, obesity, and other major health concerns in the area. Moreover, public outdoor spaces have become safer and more. reliable, which motivates individuals to live a more active, healthier lifestyle. There's less pressure of tobacco and drug use around these areas, which helps create a family-friendly safe environment for all.

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Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Healthy King County Coalition, Seattle Children's, and Public Health - Seattle & King County have partnered together on a series of community-led programs (through the Partnerships to Improve Community Health grant) that have led to better, more long-lasting health outcomes for everyone-not just those who are already healthy.

Together, our partnerships have identified and are dedicated to working on health equity based around these overarching issue-areas: access to good nutrition, quality physical activity, green space, smoke-free environments and tobacco prevention resources.

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Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH)

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Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Healthy King County Coalition, Seattle Children's, and Public Health - Seattle & King County have partnered together on a series of community-led programs (through the Partnerships to Improve Community Health grant) that have led to better, more long-lasting health outcomes for everyone-not just those who are already healthy.

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Olivia Hinze, Abby Wagner, Taylor Moore

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4k8imE7EpjNWPDjG_EuWvXlu1Y2k3t_5mHvZKEwPin8vk-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

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The form MTH 136 Childhood Obesity Survey is no longer accepting responses. Try contacting the owner of the form if you think this is a mistake.