ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Annotated Bibliography

Jolanta Naspinska

TOPIC: In my final research paper, I will be presenting federal school lunch programs of the United States, highlighting the challenge facing the institutional practice regarding health management and fighting student obesity. I will be discussing unhealthiness and low quality of the meals served in public schools along with profiles of politicians and administrators who are seeking to fix the problem.

Sources:

 Bridgman, Jessica et al. "The effects of the HEALTHY study intervention on middle school student dietary intakes." International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity 8.1 (2011): 7-14. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 May 2011.

                      This article is about The HEALTHY study, a five-semester middle school-based intervention program that integrated multiple components in nutrition, physical education, behavior change, and social marketing-based communications, resulted in significant changes to student's reported fruit and water intake. Subsequent interventions need to go beyond the school environment to change diet behaviors that may affect weight status of children.

 Hinman , Kristen. " The School Lunch Wars." Wilson Quarterly 35.2 (2011): 16-21. Academic Search  Complete. EBSCO . Web . 8 May 2011.

                       The author of this article talks about low quality of the meals served in public schools in the United States.

Julian, Liam. "Why School Lunch is "Nasty!." Policy Review 163 (2010): 43-53. Academic Search Complete.  EBSCO.  Web. 8 May 2011.

                        The article profiles Jeff  Mills, a former New York City restaurateur and director of food and nutrition services for the Washington D.C. public schools, and discusses school food. The article notes that school food programs are not uniform but that chicken nuggets and pizza are popular items on school lunchroom menus.

McGray, Douglas. "A Revolution In School Lunches." Time 175.16 (2010): 50-53. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 May 2011.

                       

                    The article discusses public-school lunches in the U.S. and the for-profit company Revolution Foods (RF) that sells nutritionally-beneficial breakfasts and lunches. RF foods are sold mainly to schools in low-income communities where meals are subsidized by the federal government.

Poppendieck, Janet. Free For All: Fixing School Food in America. Los Angeles: Regents, 2010. Print.

                         This book is showing to the readers the nation school kitchens of the United States. Author of this book explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. Drawing from extensive interviews with officials, workers, students, and activists, she discusses the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs and turns a critical eye on the "competitive foods" sold in cafeterias. This book also reveals the forces, the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models, that are determining how lunch is served.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. Print.

                       The chapter of this book is mainly about fast foods that exist in about 30 percent of the public high schools in the United States.