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Identifier	Thesis 1890
Author	Dawiczyk, Kevin A. (Kevin Andrew), 1970-
Title	Surveying lunch choices of urban middle school students
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The study was designed to distinguish if demographic information has any bearing on the amount of food consumed during a lunch period. Gender, ethnicity, lunch status were three demographics compared to the amount of food consumed that was provided at lunch. A Food Intake Survey was administered at three urban schools (N=2553) in New Britain, Ct for one day, which consisted of all food items provided from schools. A Chi Square method and descriptive statistics was used with the statistical breakdown of results. Most of studies have followed a students diet throughout the day via food logs or journals. Students may forget to place an entry into these journals and skew the results. This Food Intake Survey validates the choices students are offered to what they actually consume. We mostly assume students are gravitating to unsound choices and are not meeting standards by the United States Department of Agriculture. The Food Intake Survey (N=1045 valid) results were placed into three categories (25%, 50%, 75%) based on the consumption of food eaten. The students demographics were then compared to the percentage of food consumed which was given to them. The data was not analyzed with a crossover comparison of each group, but rather as a separate entity. Urban middle school students are consuming unsound food items during lunch periods during a time when lifestyle diseases have been attributed to diet and lack of exercise. Each school district is now accountable for improving their students diet through a Wellness Policy. Wellness Policies are mandated for each district and would be in violation of the No Child Left Behind Act. It was concluded that students regardless of demographic integrity are not consuming all the food items given to them by schools. Only 50 % of the food were consumed regardless if it was free, reduced or brought in from home, ethnicity or gender. Gender had a mean of 48.1 (male) and 48.96 (female) for the percentage of food consumed. Ethnicity has similar means of 49.4 (African American), 49.28 (Hispanic), 47.12 White, and 45.3 (Other). Lunch status had a wider spectrum of 49.7 (Free), 47.66 (Reduced), 46.8 (Buy), and 39.17 (Bring). In conclusion, schools have made tremendous strides in improving dietary needs of their students. Some schools still have a snack bar and/or vending machines where students are gravitating towards to get their nutrition. The questionnaire proved even free lunch status students were purchasing snacks and drinks from snack bars and/or vending machines. There still needs to be improvement to eliminate all snack bars and vending machines in the cafeteria to terminate temptation. Along with more education to students and their parents change lifestyle patterns which were learned. If the parents can become better role models to their children the rise in lifestyle diseases could turn around. Sound education and role models may be the successful equation to a long, healthy life.
Subject	School children -- Food Middle school students
Department	Department of Physical Education and Human Performance
Advisor	Harackiewicz, David
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733936
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