School Nutrition Services (SNS) Research

Publication: Academics Pediatrics

Date Published: April 2016

Reference: 

Ladapo, J. A., Bogart, L. M., Klein, D. J., Cowgill, B. O., Uyeda, K., Binkle, D. G., 
Stevens, E. R., & Schuster, M. A. (2016). Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Students 
for Nutrition and eXercise (SNaX). Academic pediatrics, 16(3), 247–253. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2015.07.009

Key Takeaways: This study is a 5-week middle school obesity intervention that examines the cost and effectiveness of Student for Nutrition and eXercise (SNaX). This combined with school-wide environmental changes, multimedia, and encouragement to eat healthy school cafeteria foods, and peer led education. The results showed that (SNaX) there was a significant increase in fruits and lunch, and a significant decrease in the proportion of students buying snacks. This study showed that (SNaX) is feasible and cost-effective in a middle school-based obesity prevention and intervention combined with school-wide environmental changes, multimedia, and encouragement to eat healthy school cafeteria foods, and peer led education, with modest cost and unlikely to be a barrier to adopt for many schools who decide to implement it.

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