Michelle E Hudgens, Allison S Barnes, Mary Kate Lockhart, Samantha C Ellsworth, Monna Beckford, Robert M Siegel
Small Prizes Improve Food Selection in a School Cafeteria Without Increasing Waste
Clinical pediatrics
objectively determine prevalence overweight obesity elementary school children two rural counties vermont prior implementing communitybased intervention schoolbased objective measures body mass index bmi obtained 1688 public school children first third fifth grades two northern vermont counties fall 2017 fortyone percentage elementary school children either overweight obese nearly double estimated vermont prevalence rate 222 schools located rural areas showed higher levels overweight obesity children schools less rural areas northern counties p 005 indirect selfreported measures bmi may underestimating true prevalence overweight obesity particularly rural communities data presented children measured directly trained study staff demonstrate prevalence obesity among children elementary school alarmingly high accurate ongoing bmi measurement surveillance one tool better understand current trends childhood overweight obesity effect community state interventions