Graduate Student Project Examines Limited Time for Lunch at School
During Winter 2015, eighteen graduate students in Dr. Donna Johnson’s Public Health Nutrition Class at the University of Washington. The students worked with instructor Mary Podrabsky and graduate student Christine Tran.
Their project documented the lack of lunch time at seven elementary schools in Seattle Public Schools (SPS). They found SPS students had only 12 minutes of “seated time” on average, whereas district policy calls for 20 minutes. The full report consists of observations, principal interviews, surveys of kitchen managers, and literature review to show the public health impacts of poor nutrition. For more information, see the following:
