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Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy

In North-East Italy (the Veneto region), several public school nutrition policies have been developed to reduce the consumption of high-caloric snacks and beverages. However, little is known about whether the policies actually influence students’ dietary behaviors. In order to address this point, a...

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Autores principales: Losasso, Carmen, Cappa, Veronica, Neuhouser, Marian L., Giaccone, Valerio, Andrighetto, Igino, Ricci, Antonia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4595772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26501063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2015.00030
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author Losasso, Carmen
Cappa, Veronica
Neuhouser, Marian L.
Giaccone, Valerio
Andrighetto, Igino
Ricci, Antonia
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Cappa, Veronica
Neuhouser, Marian L.
Giaccone, Valerio
Andrighetto, Igino
Ricci, Antonia
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description In North-East Italy (the Veneto region), several public school nutrition policies have been developed to reduce the consumption of high-caloric snacks and beverages. However, little is known about whether the policies actually influence students’ dietary behaviors. In order to address this point, a multi-center cross-sectional survey of 691 Italian students was conducted. Students completed the Beverage and Snack Questionnaire, which assesses the consumption of beverages and snacks at school and out of school. Three-level Poisson Models with random intercept with students (level 1 units) nested into classroom (level 2 units), and nested into schools (level 3 units), were used to examine the influence of the school setting vs. the out of school environment (independent variable) on students’ consumption of sweet beverages, snacks, milk-based beverages, low-carbohydrate drinks, fruit, and vegetables (dependent variable) (p ≤ 0.05). The results showed a significantly higher consumption of sweet beverages, snacks, milk-based beverages, low-carbohydrate drinks, fruit, and vegetables out-of-the school, suggesting a school-protective association Thus, the policies aimed to limit or deny access to unhealthy foods in the school environment may play an important role in promoting more healthful dietary patterns for school children. Additional studies should be conducted to compare students’ dietary behaviors between schools with nutrition policies to those without nutrition policies.
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spelling pubmed-45957722015-10-23 Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy Losasso, Carmen Cappa, Veronica Neuhouser, Marian L. Giaccone, Valerio Andrighetto, Igino Ricci, Antonia Front Nutr Nutrition In North-East Italy (the Veneto region), several public school nutrition policies have been developed to reduce the consumption of high-caloric snacks and beverages. However, little is known about whether the policies actually influence students’ dietary behaviors. In order to address this point, a multi-center cross-sectional survey of 691 Italian students was conducted. Students completed the Beverage and Snack Questionnaire, which assesses the consumption of beverages and snacks at school and out of school. Three-level Poisson Models with random intercept with students (level 1 units) nested into classroom (level 2 units), and nested into schools (level 3 units), were used to examine the influence of the school setting vs. the out of school environment (independent variable) on students’ consumption of sweet beverages, snacks, milk-based beverages, low-carbohydrate drinks, fruit, and vegetables (dependent variable) (p ≤ 0.05). The results showed a significantly higher consumption of sweet beverages, snacks, milk-based beverages, low-carbohydrate drinks, fruit, and vegetables out-of-the school, suggesting a school-protective association Thus, the policies aimed to limit or deny access to unhealthy foods in the school environment may play an important role in promoting more healthful dietary patterns for school children. Additional studies should be conducted to compare students’ dietary behaviors between schools with nutrition policies to those without nutrition policies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4595772/ /pubmed/26501063 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2015.00030 Text en Copyright © 2015 Losasso, Cappa, Neuhouser, Giaccone, Andrighetto and Ricci. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Losasso, Carmen
Cappa, Veronica
Neuhouser, Marian L.
Giaccone, Valerio
Andrighetto, Igino
Ricci, Antonia
Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy
title Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy
title_full Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy
title_fullStr Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy
title_full_unstemmed Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy
title_short Students’ Consumption of Beverages and Snacks at School and Away from School: A Case Study in the North East of Italy
title_sort students’ consumption of beverages and snacks at school and away from school: a case study in the north east of italy
topic Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4595772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26501063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2015.00030
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