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School nutrition standards miss mark
Oregon was one of 23 states to get an F for its school nutrition policies in a recent national report issued by a public health advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.
In its "School Foods Report Card," The Center for Science in the Public Interest slammed Oregon, as well as neighbors Washington and Idaho, for failing to adopt any statewide policy regarding foods and beverages sold in vending machines, school stores and other campus venues outside of the federal meals program.
The report comes as many school districts in Oregon rush to meet an August deadline to adopt their own federally mandated "wellness" policies dealing with school food, nutrition education and physical activity.
The wellness policy requirement has led to soul-searching and significant change in some districts, including Eugene, where widespread consensus emerged over the role schools can play in helping curb childhood obesity.
In May, the Eugene School Board voted to no longer offer soda pop, hard candy and other high-sugar sweets on its campuses, ending a long-running controversy over high school vending machine contracts.
But in other districts, the policy mandate is likely to have little on-the-ground impact, said Kari McFarlan, a public health specialist with the Community Health Partnership, a Portland-based, public health advocacy group that supported an unsuccessful anti-junk food bill from Sen. Bill Morrisette, D-Springfield, in the 2005 Legislature.
"We'll be surprised if a majority of districts are following Eugene's example," she said. "Eugene is going to be leaps and bounds ahead of where other districts are."
The School Foods Report Card highlights the responsibility of state leaders to curb the availability of junk food in schools, she noted.
"One question to consider is at what level - federal, state or local district - nutrition guidelines should be enacted to ensure the health of all our kids no matter which local school district they live in," she said. "After all, improving the nutrition environment of the school could increase the likelihood that kids will learn to make the healthy choice in food if it's the easy choice."
Pat Burk, chief policy officer for the Oregon Department of Education, said improving school nutrition is a high priority for Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo and the state Board of Education,
The department established a yearlong Healthy Foods Task Force on the issue, he said, with widespread representation from food service operators, health care providers and advocacy groups, and officials have worked closely with school districts and the Oregon School Boards Association to help establish substantive wellness policies. The department took no official position on the Morrisette bill, he said, but supported one from Sen. Vicki Walker, D-Eugene, to set up permanent, local wellness advisory groups.
"So the F, I think, is misleading in terms of the activity in Oregon," Burk said. "It does reflect the absence of a lot of state regulation and policy, but it overlooks a lot of activity that is currently going on."
He said the state Board of Education last year declined to pursue action on possible guidelines put together by staff and experts from Oregon Health and Science University, preferring to let the local wellness policies play out before deciding whether it's necessary to weigh in.
"They were concerned about trying not to overregulate and had a pretty strong commitment that the most effective strategy involved local decision-making," he said.
The state earning the report's highest grade - an A- - was Kentucky, which will institute strict guidelines in the coming school year regulating the fat, sugar, sodium and caloric content of foods and beverages sold outside the federal school meals program.
Twelve states received B grades, seven (including the District of Columbia) C's and eight D's.
To view the report, visit www.cspinet.org.
Short legs related to excess weight and diabetes
Last Updated: 2006-07-07 11:41:10 -0400 (Reuters Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being short and especially having short legs appear to increase the risk being overweight and developing type 2 diabetes in middle age, new research shows.
"Our study shows that adult stature can be helpful in predicting the risk of diabetes independently from other known risk factors," researchers report in the journal in Diabetes Care.
The length of a person's legs is an indicator of childhood nutrition, which may have long-lasting effects on health, note Dr. Keiko Asao and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Short leg length and low leg length-to-height ratio are two indicators of suboptimal childhood development.
Asao's team studied the relationship between stature-related measurements, amount of body fat and two pre-diabetic conditions -- insulin resistance, in which the body is resistant to the blood-sugar regulating hormone insulin, and glucose intolerance, marked by elevated blood sugar levels. The study included 7,424 men and women between 40 and 74 years old.
In women, percent body fat was significantly higher in those with shorter height, shorter leg length, and lower leg length-to-height ratio, even after considering factors know to influence body fat.
A similar pattern was noted in men, although none of the associations reached statistical significance.
Lower leg length-to-height ratio, but not height or leg length, was also associated with greater levels of insulin resistance in subjects without diabetes.
And all three body features (shorter height, shorter leg length, and lower leg length-to-height ratio) were associated with a higher prevalence of diabetes. For example, a 1-standard deviation lower leg length-to-height ratio was associated with a 19 percent greater risk of having type 2 diabetes.
"Insofar as adult stature is an indicator of development and growth during early life," conclude the investigators, the risk of obesity and diabetes in adulthood "might begin to accrue before puberty." Therefore, interventions to improve childhood nutrition "could represent novel means to combat the epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes," they offer.
