The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was established to provide meals that would meet one-third of the daily nutritional needs of children. Administrators of NSLP understand the responsibility to address the rising increase of obesity in children today. The purpose of this study was to examine the educational attainment, food and nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, nutrition behaviors and nutrition training of 411 Indiana School Food Service Directors, through the completion of a 50 itemized questionnaire. The hypothesis of this research was to show that the educational attainment of Indiana School Food Service Directors would not impact their food and nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, nutrition behaviors or nutrition training.A statistical significance (p<0.036) was found when analyzing nutrition attitudes between the respondents in the 41-50 year age group and the 61-70 year age group. Results indicated the 41-50 year old group had a more positive nutrition attitude than the 61-50 year age group. Additional analysis of the questionnaire results revealed no statistical significant difference between Indiana School Food Service Directors' educational attainment and nutrition attitude, nutrition behaviors, or nutrition training. / Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

Orientador: Antonio Marcio Buainain / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T11:56:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vieira_AdrianaCarvalhoPinto_D.pdf: 2358867 bytes, checksum: 95a86b11c19e05b7e53c5700e2c49bc2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A valorização dos atributos de qualidade e de responsabilidade social vem crescendo significativamente no mercado mundial de alimentos. Percebe-se que as estratégias competitivas dos grandes grupos do setor agroalimentar procuram conquistar a confiança do consumidor no que tange à qualidade, à procedência e à sanidade dos alimentos na produção final. O problema da presente tese tem por análise questionar de que forma a complexidade institucional do ambiente econômico, notadamente no Brasil, influencia na dinâmica dos processos de segurança alimentar. Com a industrialização progressiva e a liberalização dos mercados, ocorreram diversas mudanças no setor alimentício, tanto na produção quanto na comercialização. Uma das principais transformações foi justamente o aumento da preocupação social relativa à questão da segurança alimentar. A alteração do ambiente institucional propiciou uma maior difusão do conhecimento sobre a segurança dos alimentos como resultado de processo complexo, que perpassa toda a cadeia produtiva, atitudes dos consumidores e da sociedade em geral, o que implicou em novas formas organizacionais das indústrias de alimentos (latu sensu) e dos países envolvidos. O aparato de regulação pública e privada tem crescido e se desenvolvido nos vários mercados. A importância da avaliação da conformidade, a identificação de origem e a rastreabilidade de processos produtivos adotados são exemplos deste tipo de controle e regulamento. A complexidade institucional (governo, setor privado e o terceiro setor), que visa assegurar a qualidade sanitária da oferta de alimentos, ainda que possa ser necessária, impôs custos de transação ex-ante elevados, - talvez exagerados - diante de uma percepção de risco ditada tanto por eventos e constatações de base científica como por propagação de "crenças" que, embora legítima socialmente, carecem de fundamentações objetivas. O mercado mundial de alimentos tem valorizado atributos de qualidade e responsabilidade social e cada vez mais as estratégias competitivas dos grupos do setor agroalimentar passa pela conquista da confiança do consumidor quanto à qualidade, procedência e sanidade dos alimentos. Ao mesmo tempo, tem crescido e se desenvolvido o aparato de regulação público e privado, formais e informais, de avaliação da conformidade, identificação de origem e a rastreabilidade de processos produtivos adotados. A institucionalidade necessária para assegurar a oferta de alimentos seguros pelo governo, setor privado e terceiro setor, cada um movido por racionalidade própria em um contexto de mercados, é caracterizada/sofre pela forte imperfeição informacional. O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar como as instituições tem se adaptado às mudanças e às necessidades de segurança dos alimentos no Brasil, dentro de um contexto de informação imperfeita e comportamento do consumidor no setor alimentício. Entretanto, no Brasil ainda há uma descoordenação entre as instituições que fiscalizam a qualidade dos alimentos, mesmo o país adotando um marco regulatório comum ao adotado em nível internacional, principalmente pelo fato do Brasil ser membro do Codex Alimentarius. / Abstract: The importance of quality and social responsibility have been increasing meaningfully in the world food market. It has been observed that the competitive strategies of the big groups in agro food sector are seeking to boost consumer confidence related to quality, origin and sanitary conditions of food in final production. This thesis questions the way the institutional complexity of economic environment, as seen in Brazil, induces the dynamics of the food safety process. Due to progressive industrialization and market liberalization, varied changes in the food sector occurred, either in production or commercialization. One of the biggest changes was the rise of social concern regarding to the food safety issue. The change of the institutional environment provided a larger propagation of knowledge about food safety as a result of a complex process, which passes over the entire productive chain, general attitude of consumers and society, which implied a reorganization of the food industry and the countries involved (latu sensu). Public and private systems of regulation have been grown and developed in several markets. The importance of compliance evaluation, origin identification and tracking of productive processes adopted are examples of this kind of control and regulation. Institutional complexity (government, private and non-profit sector, which aims to ensure the safety quality of food supplies, even if necessary, demanded high ex-ante transaction costs (perhaps excessive ones) against a perception of risk dictated as much by events and scientific verification as by the spread of "beliefs" without objective substantiation, though they may be socially legitimate. The world food market has placed importance on quality and social responsibility, while competitive strategies of the agro-food sector groups have increasingly been conquering consumer trust regarding quality, origin and sanitary conditions of food. At the same time, the systems of private and public regulation, both formal and informal, have developed and grown, in relation to compliance evaluation, origin identification and traceability of adopted productive processes. The needed institutionalism to assure a safe food supply by government, private and non-profit sector, which are driven by their own market rationality, have to cope with strong information asymmetry. The current study aims to analyze how the institutions have been adapting themselves to changes and food security requirements in Brazil, within a context of information asymmetry and food sector consumer behavior. However, there is still an incongruence in Brazil amongst institutions which supervise food quality, using, even, a common international regulatory guide, chiefly for being a member country of the Codex Alimentarius. / Doutorado / Desenvolvimento Economico, Espaço e Meio Ambiente / Doutor em Desenvolvimento Economico

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Over the past three decades, obesity rates for children ages 2-5 years have doubled from 5% to 10% and children ages 6-11 years have more than tripled from 4% to over 15%. Adequate amounts of fruits and vegetables in the diet are necessary to reduce increased risks associated with long term inadequate consumption of these foods. Grant recipients received funds to purchase a sectionizer and slicer to prepare more attractive fruits and vegetables for school food service lines. Through the use of a descriptive survey, recipients reported a significant reduction in workload on staff and an increase in the amounts of fruits and vegetables children took from service lines after these foods were prepared using this equipment. Using equipment designed to increase convenience or enhance appearance of fruits and vegetables in school food service operations may increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables provided to children through child nutrition programs.

The purpose of this study was to develop a Point Of Sale system which helps owners to cut restaurant losses, improve customer service, reduce employee mistakes, and increase profitability. mOrder-Servers is touch screen oprerated at the point of sale, It has an easy to follow screen layout, and the simplicity of a windows based interface.

In the Morder-Client Food Service, a waiter/waitresses orders meals via a wireless handheld device. By reading the order items listed on the screen of a personal computer which is in a kitchen, the cook can make the correct dishes. This system can improve service quality and efficiency.

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