NASBE Membership Passes Healthy Eating Resolution

In October of 2006, supporting the goals of the Increasing Healthy Eating Project, the NASBE membership passed the following resolution:

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Health and safety play a critical role in student achievement; therefore, in addition to providing sequential programs of standards-based health and physical education, NASBE believes that school officials must give attention to the following areas:

A. Promotion of Student Health

All schools should:

1. Be smoke free, drug free, violence free, and free of physical hazard;

2. Provide student counseling, guidance, health, and psychological services at all levels;

3. Be safe and accessible for all students;

4. Promote the building of lifelong habits of regular physical activity; and

5. Encourage that all students are adequately nourished and learn lifelong habits of healthy eating by encouraging:

a. maximum use of quality school meal programs that are operated under the supervision of certified foodservice directors in accordance with applicable Federal and state laws and regulations;

b. adequate time to eat in pleasant surroundings;

c. that all foods and beverages sold or served during school hours are consistent with a nutritious, energy-balanced diet as recommended in the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans;

d. nutrition education that teaches essential knowledge, skills, and behaviors; and

e. staff members to model a healthy lifestyle.