A Case Study of Middle School Food Policy and Persisting Barriers to Healthful Eating
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14721978 |
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| Authors | Eddy Jara (corresponding author), Emily J Ozer (0000-0002-4714-6061, University of California, Berkeley), Ingrid Seyer-Ochi (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333-346 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecology of Food and Nutrition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0367-0244 • E-ISSN: 1543-5237 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03670244.2014.872906 |
| PMID | 24735212 |
| OpenAlex | W2076570615 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Decreasing access to competitive foods in schools has produced only modest effects on adolescents' eating patterns. This qualitative case study investigated persistent barriers to healthful eating among students attending an ethnically diverse middle school in a working-class urban neighborhood that had banned on campus competitive food sales. Participant observations, semi-structured interviews and document reviews were conducted. Unappealing school lunches and easily accessible unhealthful foods, combined with peer and family influences, increased the appeal of unhealthy foods. Areas for further inquiry into strategies to improve urban middle school students' school and neighborhood food environments are discussed
Appeal · Environmental health · Ethnically diverse · Middle class · Political science · Population · Qualitative research · Sociology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology
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