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.
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