nutrition and physical activity in our schools - Environment & Human ...

The State of Nutrition and Physical Activity in Our SchoolsI. Recommendations■Schools should provide even the last student in line withenough time to buy and eat a complete lunch.■■Schools should work to reduce wait time or to extend lunchperiods when lunch lengths are insufficient to provide allstudents appropriate opportunity time to eat. In schoolswhere students who are first in line have excess time,constructive activities should be provided for thosestudents.Administrators should work with lunch monitors andcafeteria staff to determine the length of their students’opportunity time to eat and, based on their school’s uniquecharacteristics, create a strategy that will ensure sufficienttime. Due to differences between schools in size, numberof lunch periods, and cafeteria and food service structure,the length of time allotted to school lunches does not easilylend itself to regulation.Due to differencesbetween schools insize, number of lunchperiods, and cafeteriaand food servicestructure, the lengthof time allotted toschool lunches doesnot easily lend itselfto regulation.21