- Schools reach a high proportion of children and adolescents.
- Schools provide opportunities to practice healthy eating and food safety.
- Schools can teach students how to resist unhealthy social pressures since eating
is a socially learned behaviour that is influenced by social pressures.
- Skilled personnel are available to provide follow-up and guidance -- after
appropriate training of students, teachers and other service personnel.
- Evaluations show that school-based nutrition education can improve eating
behaviours of young persons (69).