Selected Findings

The findings in this report are organized as follows:

• food services at the school (i.e., types of food services - cafeteria or lunchroom, vending machines, school stores or snack bars - and availability of foods outside of full school meals);
• types of foods available in the school and in the cafeteria or lunchroom;
• foods sold at vending machines and school stores or snack bars;
• food service operations (i.e., the entity that operated food services at the school, and contracts with companies to sell foods at the school);
• scheduled recess;
• scheduled physical education;
• activities to encourage physical activity (e.g., nontraditional physical education activities, such as dance or kick-boxing, to make physical education enjoyable); and
• physical assessment of students (i.e., measurement of students' height and weight and calculation of body mass index).

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