The Netherlands Nutrition Centre, P.O. Box 85700, 2508 CK The Hague, The Netherlands.
J Environ Public Health. 2012;2012:415746. doi: 10.1155/2012/415746. Epub 2012 May 28.
The environment can exert a strong influence on people's food decisions. In order to facilitate students to make more healthy food choices and to develop healthy eating habits, it is important that the school food environment is healthy. The Healthy School Canteen programme of The Netherlands Nutrition Centre is an intervention that helps schools to make their cafeteria's offering healthier. A descriptive study was conducted by an independent research agency to survey the perceptions, experiences, and opinions of users of the programme (school directors, parents, students, and health professionals). Results show that directors and students of participating schools perceive their cafeteria's offering to be healthier after implementing the programme than prior to implementation. Next, further important results of the study are highlighted and relations with other projects, caveats, and practical recommendations are discussed. It is concluded that the Healthy School Canteen programme is a promising intervention to change the school food environment but that further research is needed to ultimately establish its effectiveness. Also, it will be a challenge to motivate all schools to enroll in the programme in order to achieve the goal of the Dutch Government of all Dutch school cafeterias being healthy by 2015.
环境对人们的食物选择有很大的影响。为了方便学生做出更健康的食物选择，培养健康的饮食习惯，学校的食物环境健康是非常重要的。荷兰营养中心的“健康学校食堂”项目是一项干预措施，旨在帮助学校使食堂的供应更加健康。一家独立的研究机构进行了一项描述性研究，调查了该项目的使用者（校长、家长、学生和健康专业人士）的看法、经验和意见。研究结果表明，参与学校的校长和学生在实施该项目后，比实施前认为他们食堂的供应更健康。接下来，突出了研究的其他重要结果，并讨论了与其他项目的关系、注意事项和实际建议。结论是，“健康学校食堂”项目是改变学校食物环境的一个很有前途的干预措施，但需要进一步的研究来最终确定其效果。此外，激励所有学校都参加该项目以实现荷兰政府到 2015 年使所有荷兰学校食堂都健康的目标，这将是一个挑战。
