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School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review
Very little research has focussed on children’s school lunchboxes from both a health and environment standpoint. This scoping review explores studies that considered children’s lunchbox food consumption trends at school and the environmental impacts of lunchbox contents. We conducted a scoping revie...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36715703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac201 |
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author | Lalchandani, Neha Kishan Poirier, Brianna Crabb, Shona Miller, Caroline Hume, Clare |
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description | Very little research has focussed on children’s school lunchboxes from both a health and environment standpoint. This scoping review explores studies that considered children’s lunchbox food consumption trends at school and the environmental impacts of lunchbox contents. We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature with a focus on lunchboxes of children in preschool or primary school settings that contained food packed from home, through the lens of food and nutrition in combination with environmental outcomes—particularly food and/or packaging waste. The review included 10 studies, with articles from Australia, USA, Spain, New Zealand and the UK. Half of them were intervention studies aiming to shift knowledge levels and attitudes of teachers, parents and children with regard to reducing packaged food choices and food waste, and improving dietary habits. Acknowledging the complexity of lunchbox packing and consumption practices, this review recommends the consideration of socio-ecological influences on children’s health and sustainability behaviour, and mobilizing their pro-environmental agency. |
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spelling | pubmed-98859802023-01-31 School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review Lalchandani, Neha Kishan Poirier, Brianna Crabb, Shona Miller, Caroline Hume, Clare Health Promot Int Article Very little research has focussed on children’s school lunchboxes from both a health and environment standpoint. This scoping review explores studies that considered children’s lunchbox food consumption trends at school and the environmental impacts of lunchbox contents. We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature with a focus on lunchboxes of children in preschool or primary school settings that contained food packed from home, through the lens of food and nutrition in combination with environmental outcomes—particularly food and/or packaging waste. The review included 10 studies, with articles from Australia, USA, Spain, New Zealand and the UK. Half of them were intervention studies aiming to shift knowledge levels and attitudes of teachers, parents and children with regard to reducing packaged food choices and food waste, and improving dietary habits. Acknowledging the complexity of lunchbox packing and consumption practices, this review recommends the consideration of socio-ecological influences on children’s health and sustainability behaviour, and mobilizing their pro-environmental agency. Oxford University Press 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9885980/ /pubmed/36715703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac201 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Lalchandani, Neha Kishan Poirier, Brianna Crabb, Shona Miller, Caroline Hume, Clare School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
title | School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
title_full | School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
title_fullStr | School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
title_full_unstemmed | School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
title_short | School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
title_sort | school lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36715703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac201 |
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