School nutrition laws in the US: do they influence obesity among youth in a racially/ethnically diverse state?

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Little is known about the separate or combined effects of state and national nutrition policies regulating food and beverages in schools on child overweight/obesity (OV/OB) and related racial/ethnic disparities. We investigated the influence of school nutrition policies enacted in California, independently and in combination with the United States' national policy "Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act" (HHFKA) on childhood OV/OB and racial/ethnic disparities.

Subjects/methods

An interrupted time series design was used with data from 12,363,089 child-level records on 5th- and 7th-graders in California public schools to estimate sex- and racial/ethnic-specific time trends in OV/OB prevalence during three periods: before the California nutrition policies (2002-200

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Vaznaugh EV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8528713 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature