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Downloaded from vbn.aau.dk on: November 29, 2020 THE EUROPEAN FORUM ON EATING AT SCHOOL – MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES PROCEEDINGS Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 20 and 21 November 2003 CONTENTS Programme .........................................................................................................7 Speakers’ papers ..............................................................................................23 Opening Session Dr Bent Egberg Mikkelsen .....................................................................................25 Welcome Address Dr Peter Baum .....................................................................................................31 Young minds 2002-2003 ─ Forward ever, backward never Ms Sarah Hunter and Ms Tara McArdle...................................................................37 Health behaviour and nutrition among school-age children Dr Lea Maes ........................................................................................................45 Eating at school ─ a European study Mrs Fannie de Boer ..............................................................................................51 Is there a healthy school meal? Prof. Dr Ines Heindl..............................................................................................63 Hungry for success: a whole approach to school meals in Scotland Mrs Gillian Kynoch................................................................................................71 How can school influence children’s food choice and improve their diet? Prof. Dr Isabelle Loureiro......................................................................................83 Healthy eating in the traditional school meals system. The role of the private food operator Mr Richard Coudyser .......................................................................................... 101 How to provide healthy food in schools: school fruit programmes as a short cut to promoting healthy eating in schools – the Norwegian experience Mrs Anniken Owren Aarum.................................................................................. 115 The (home-made) lunchbox – has it got a future? Mrs Doris Kuhness.............................................................................................. 123 School food policy: linking with the Netherlands healthy schools action programme Mr Goof Buijs..................................................................................................... 127 Promoting good personal health care and healthy consumption habits through a good school climate Mr Jean-Claude Vuille ......................................................................................... 135 3 Health and education intersectorial role of school nutrition and nutrition education Dr Irena Simcic and Ms Cirila Hlastan-Ribic........................................................... 139 We decide what we eat: active involvement of students in developing school meal policies Mr Bjarne Bruun Jensen...................................................................................... 145 Parents and school, partners in education for healthy food choice; utopia or reality? Mrs Patricia Melotte and Mr Christophe Content.................................................... 159 National Inter-agency co-operation regarding nutrition in schools Dr. Michel Chauliac............................................................................................. 167 Abstracts......................................................................................................... 183 N°1 Healthy eating at school – an integrated nutrition education project in a Portuguese junior school ............................................................................. 185 N°2 The impact of a nutrition education program.................................................. 187 N°3 Interactive CD–ROM: discover healthy eating................................................. 191 N°4 Measures to improve nutrition in schools in Wales.......................................... 193 N°5 Developing sustainable strategies to promote healthy eating across the school day in England.................................................................................. 195 N°6 Research aimed at promoting healthier eating in children................................ 197 N°7 A training resource - growing through adolescence: a health promoting school approach to healthy eating .......................................................................... 199 N°8 Food can only provide energy when eaten; intake of school lunches ................ 201 N°9 “Dime como comes”: a joint initiative between the catering sector and public health nutrition........................................................................................... 205 N°10 Monitoring program of school meals in the municipality of Bilbao................... 207 N°11 Primary prevention of child obesity at infant and primary school .................... 209 N°12 Finnish school meals of 7th-9th grade pupils .................................................. 211 N°13 Current problems in nutrition of Bulgarian schoolchidren............................... 213 N°14 Preliminary qualitative study of the use of information by those directly involved in nutrition education projects for young people.............................. 215 4 No 15 Improving lunchtime at school: building change at local level, taking account of all points of view ..................................................................................... 217 N°16 “Diet in a nutshell – a taste for life”: development of healthy eating at school – a regional approach............................................................................... 221 N° 17 Healthy and organic school food for 30,000 school children in Copenhagen ... 225 N°18 Partnership between authorities and NGO’s in developing healthy eating at school – the Danish experience ............................................................................ 227 N°19 “The good meal”: improving public meals and public food provision............... 231 N°20 A qualitative study of barriers to healthy food for children in Danish day-care centres and schools................................................................................... 233 N°21 Promoting good school cafeterias in secondary schools through nutrition action teams..................................................................................................... 235 N°22 National fruit and vegetable project for primary schools in the Netherlands .... 237 N°23 Schoolbeat: a collaborative approach to co-ordinated school health promotion in the Netherlands ........................................................................................ 239 N°24 Pilot warm meals in primary schools during lunchtime................................... 241 N°25 Appropriate terms of reference for public invitations to tender for school catering.................................................................................................... 243 N°26 Effect of a fruit and vegetable subscription in Danish schools ........................ 245 List of participants ......................................................................................... 247 5 6 PROGRAMME 7 8 Forum on eating at school - making healthy choices Aims of the Forum To: S promote healthy eating in schools as an integral part of healthy life-styles; S foster co-operation among the actors concerned to enable schoolchildren to eat healthy meals in a pleasant environment at their school; S review different European approaches to school food and nutrition, highlight problems, identify best practices and make proposals for follow-up activities to be pursued by the Council of Europe. Participants People involved in the field of food and nutrition in schools including pupils, parents, teachers, school managers, caterers, health staff, administrators and policy makers. Speakers Principal actors in the field of food and nutrition in schools. Poster presentations Posters and nutrition education materials will