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elementary pupils waste less food when their lunch period comes after their recess, instead of before, according to the November issue of the Virginia School Boards Association Newsletter.
Waste of vegetables dropped by 25 per cent; salad by 36 per cent and fruit by 54 per cent, when a nutrition specialist in the Old Abode Union School District in Petaluma, California persuaded La Tercera Elementary School authorities to switch lunch and recess periods. Principal Brian Ruppenthal and school nurse Winefred Hogue enlisted parents to measure waste before and after the switch.
The largest drop was in milk waste, which decreased 82 per cent for first graders and 89 per cent for second graders who had played before eating,” they reported in School Foodservice Journal.
‘‘School children’s appetites are not only less before recess, but recess itself is particularly alluring,” said
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