title: Healthy eating design guidelines for school architecture.
abstract: We developed a new tool, Healthy Eating Design Guidelines for School Architecture, to provide practitioners in architecture and public health with a practical set of spatially organized and theory-based strategies for making school environments more conducive to learning about and practicing healthy eating by optimizing physical resources and learning spaces. The design guidelines, developed through multidisciplinary collaboration, cover 10 domains of the school food environment (eg, cafeteria, kitchen, garden) and 5 core healthy eating design principles. A school redesign project in Dillwyn, Virginia, used the tool to improve the schools' ability to adopt a healthy nutrition curriculum and promote healthy eating. The new tool, now in a pilot version, is expected to evolve as its components are tested and evaluated through public health and design research.
authors: University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors: Terry T-K
authors: TT
authors: Huang
authors: Dina
authors: D
authors: Sorensen
authors: Steven
authors: S
authors: Davis
authors: Leah
authors: L
authors: Frerichs
authors: Jeri
authors: J
authors: Brittin
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Celentano
authors: Kelly
authors: K
authors: Callahan
authors: Matthew J
authors: MJ
authors: Trowbridge
mesh_terms: D004435:Eating; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D012572:School Health Services