A federal grant is helping researchers study how much Anchorage students eat during lunch, and how much they move throughout the day.
Leftover food sits on carts before being weighed at Bowman Elementary School in Anchorage. The lunch study is looking at how extended mealtimes might influence how much food students eat while at school.
Cueva is a faculty member at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Center for Behavioral Health Research and Services, part of the Institute for Social and Economic Research. The research is a continuation of a student wellness initiative that expanded lunch and recess at some Anchorage schools in 2019. They learned that with longer lunch and recess, students were sleeping better, eating more lunch, behaving better
They are trying to figure out whether students eat more food with longer lunches. To do that, they’re weighing students’ lunches before and after they eat. They’re also trying to learn about student exercise and sleep quality by having students wear wristband activity trackers. Brittany Rodvik, the project manager, and a few other teammates walked the halls of the school, stopping at each classroom to check off names and retrieve the small bands. In a sixth-grade class, one student lost a band during hockey practice. Another letThe monitors measure how much students move each day, from soccer practice to restlessness at night.
“It’s particularly exciting because we’ll be able to work with the school district as it continues to roll it out,” Cohen said. “And so some of the things that we heard about as benefits, such as hearing that kids were sleeping better at night, hearing that kids were eating more lunch, hearing that there’s better behavior in the classroom — these are things now that we’ll be able to objectively measure with parent permission,” Cohen said.
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