1. Westfield Washington School
Nutrition Committee

2. 6 Elementary School
1 Intermediate School
1 Middle School
1 High School
6,281 Students

3. SODEXO FOOD SERVICE-WESTFIELD WASHINGTON SCHOOL NUTRITION COMMITTEE

4. Karen Howes, General Manager, Sodexo Food Service
Brooke Pearson, M.P.H. (Master of Public Health), Committee Chairperson
Katie Conner, CHES (Certified Health Education Specialist)
Lori Walton, RN, BSN, Pediatric Weight Management Coordinator Peyton
Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent
Libby Sandstrom, ServSafe Certified, Sodexo Food Service
Susan Luther, ServSafe Certified, Sodexo Food Service
 Who Are We?
The Nutrition Committee is made up of parent
volunteers and employees who work closely
with the WWS district and Sodexo in achieving
and continually exceeding the nutrition goals
of the Federal, State and District wellness
policies.
As the WWS Nutrition Committee, we strive to
make wellness fun and exciting for students so
they will embrace a healthy lifestyle for a
lifetime.

5. Added Whole Healthy
Grains to Breakfast
Menu
Dairy Taste Food Allergy Project 18 Chef’s Move
Bar Brochure
to Schools

6.  Whole Grains  Dairy Group
 Any food made from
wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley or another  Choose fat-free or low-fat milk, yogurt, and
cereal grain is a grain product. cheese. If you choose milk or yogurt that is
Bread, pasta, oatmeal, breakfast not fat-free, or cheese that is not low-
cereals, tortillas, and grits are examples of
grain products. fat, the fat in the product counts as part of
the empty calorie allowance.
Grains are divided into 2 subgroups, whole
grains and refined grains.
If sweetened milk products are chosen
Whole grains contain the entire grain kernel -- (flavored milk, yogurt, drinkable
the bran, germ, and endosperm. Examples
include: yogurt, desserts), the added sugars also
 whole-wheat flour count as part of the empty calorie
 bulgur (cracked wheat) allowance.
 oatmeal
 whole cornmeal For those who are lactose
 brown rice intolerant, lactose-free and lower-lactose
products are available. These include hard
 Refined grains have been milled, a process that
removes the bran and germ. This is done to give cheeses and yogurt. Also, enzyme
grains a finer texture and improve their shelf preparations can be added to milk to lower
life, but it also removes dietary fiber, iron, and the lactose content. Calcium -fortified foods
many B vitamins. Some examples of refined
grain products are: white flour and beverages such as soy beverages or
 degermed cornmeal orange juice may provide calcium, but may
 white bread not provide the other nutrients found in
 white rice milk and milk products.

7. School Breakfast for First-Class Learning!
 Starting the day without breakfast
can leave kids tired and out-of-sort.
 Studies show that eating breakfast
may help kids do better in school
by improving
mood, memory, alertness, concent
ration, problem-solving
ability, test scores, and
attendance.
 From stronger bones to a healthier
heart, eating breakfast provides
many health benefits.
Furthermore, breakfast eaters get
more fiber, calcium, vitamins A and
C, riboflavin, zinc and iron than do
breakfast skippers.
 Make Breakfast your most important
meal of the day whether at home or
at school.

8. Sodexo Food Service and the WWS Nutrition
Committee in Alliance with Peyton Manning
Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent and Ball
State University launched the Project 18
Eat to Win Challenge January 2010.

9. Sponsored by Sodexo Food
Service in conjunction
with Mrs. Obama’s Let’s
Move Program and the
USDA.

10. Sponsored by Sodexo Food
Service in conjunction
with Mrs. Obama’s Let’s
Move Program and the
USDA.

11. Sponsored by Sodexo Food
Service in conjunction
with Mrs. Obama’s Let’s
Move Program and the
USDA.

12. Sponsored by Sodexo Food
Service in conjunction
with Mrs. Obama’s Let’s
Move Program and the
USDA.

13. Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Let’s Move by Michelle Obama
USDA Food Pyramid
Sodexo’s NUTRIkids
WWS School Wellness Policy
Indiana Action for Healthy Kids
Did you ever wonder how we decide on
our menus? What guidelines do we have
Sodexo’s Healthy Initiative Guide to follow?
The Sodexo Food Service has compiled a
HealthierUS School Challenge report based on the Federal, State, and
Local Wellness and Nutrition Guidelines
2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
(shown on the left) showing how the Food
Service at Westfield Schools meets these
guidelines for child nutrition.

14. The American Heart Association and
The William J. Clinton Foundation

15. The American Heart Association and
The William J. Clinton Foundation
School Meal Programs Education
School Lunch Criteria
Competitive Foods Annual Training
from the Alliance for
Guidelines for K-12
a Healthier Nutrition Committee
Schools
Generation

16. At Westfield Washington
Schools, Sodexo
participates in the
Alliance for a Healthier
Generation earning Silver
and Gold two years
running, participates in
the annual WWS Health
Fair, and provides
informational handouts Comply with
and web-based the Criteria
information through our from the
Food Service Blog. Reduced the Alliance for a
amount of fat, Healthier
sugar, and Generation Regular
sodium Meetings
Promote Visual Aids and
Fruits and and reviews by
Vegetables Promotions the WWS
to educate Nutrition
Annual Students Committee
HAACP
Training
for our
Staff
 Sodexo was the first school food service company to sign on with The
Alliance for a Healthier Generation to offer healthy a la carte snacks
and beverages.

17. Helping parents make healthy family choices

18. First Lady •Began a national conversation about
Michelle the health of America’s children
•This discussion grew into the Let’s
Move campaign
Obama
•Campaign will combat the epidemic of
childhood obesity through a
Let’s Move comprehensive approach
•Over the past three
decades, childhood obesity rates in
America have tripled
•Let’s Move is a
comprehensive, collaborative, and
community-oriented and will include
So, Let’s Move strategies to address the various
factors that lead to childhood obesity
•It will take into account how life is
really lived in our communities
 Let’s Move is building communities
by bringing together
families, schools, private industry and
government to make healthy living
easier.
http://www.letsmove.gov/index.html

19. Sodexo, Inc., world leader in Quality of Daily Life
solutions, serving more than 2.8 million school meals daily to
students in more than 270 school districts nationwide, has
announced its participation in First Lady Michelle Obama’s
campaign to eliminate childhood obesity within a generation.
--Reimbursable School Lunch:
make available
fruits, vegetables, whole grains
and low-fat milk
Sodexo is committed to --Competitive Foods: meet
Sodexo has initiated many student well-being, and we HealthierUS School Challenge
innovations to work toward endorse the efforts to criteria
reducing and eliminating encourage students and Toward the objective of --Provide Nutrition Education
obesity in children and parents to make healthier having every school we serve materials to students and
teens, including breakfast in food choices. achieve Gold Award level parents
the classroom, fruit/vegetable
Sodexo agrees with the long- status in the HealthierUS --Encourage Clients to support
offerings, elimination of trans-
term objectives of supporting School Challenge, Sodexo is efforts to meet requirements of
fat oils more than five years
committed to the following:
ago, incorporating more whole every school we serve to help HealthierUS School Challenge
grains, nutrition education them achieve the Gold Award --Work to Achieve HealthierUS
efforts and staff training. level under the HealthierUS School Challenge Objectives
School Challenge. with The White House, federal
and state agencies

21. The Food Guide
Pyramid was
introduced in 1992 to
illustrate a food guide
developed by the U.S.
Department of
Agriculture to help
healthy Americans use
the Dietary Guidelines
to choose foods for a
healthy diet.

22. Evolution of USDA’s Food Guidance
1950s-1960s
1940s
1916
Food for
Young
Children
1970s 2005
1992

24.  Planning Menus
 Menu Planning at Westfield Washington Schools is produced through NUTRIkids.
 Previous years menus were on a month-to-month basis and are available upon request.
 For 2010-2011 School Year, our menus are on an 8-week rotation. There is a different
menu for each grade cluster: High School, Middle School, Intermediate School and
Elementary Schools.
 Uses NUTRIkids because:
 Software is preloaded with the latest USDA Child Nutrition Database of over 12,000
ingredients and 220 USDA recipes
 Control of menu plans to ensure we are meeting federal and state regulations and
guidelines
 Standardize recipes for nutrition, portion, and cost control
 USDA compliant daily, weekly and monthly menus with nutritional averages for any date
range
 Comply with the dietary guidelines and satisfy the district’s Wellness Policy
 As this is a nutrient based menu plan, food group servings are not shown. However, as
you can see, the calorie intake and nutrient levels are well within the target levels as
dictated within the program by the USDA.

26. All 6 Elementary Schools are
on the Same Menu

27. www.indianaactionforhealthykids.org

28.  Action for Healthy Kids is a  Why Now?
nationwide initiative dedicated to
improving the health and
educational performance of  The incidence of childhood
children through better nutrition overweight and obesity has
and physical activity in schools. tripled over the past 20 years.
 This effort represents a response  A prevention strategy is crucial.
to our nation’s epidemic of  Schools are a structured
overweight, sedentary, and environment where it is possible
undernourished children and to have a powerful influence on
adolescents. children’s eating and activity
 Healthy schools produce healthy patterns.
students—and healthy students  Schools provide equality of
are better able to learn and access to information in settings
achieve their true potential. where families differ in their
levels of knowledge and ability
to discuss nutritional and
physical needs.
 www.indianaactionforhealthykids.org
 www.actionforhealthykids.org

29.  At the 2002 Healthy Schools Summit in
Washington, D.C., Former U.S. Surgeon General
 What AFHK Does…
David Satcher asked America to address this
burgeoning crisis-and Action for Healthy Kids was
formed to answer.
 A public-private partnership of more than 50  Improving children’s eating habits
national organizations and government agencies
representing education, health, fitness and by increasing access to nutritious
nutrition, Action for Healthy Kids addresses the foods and beverages throughout the
epidemic of overweight, sedentary, and school campus and by integrating
undernourished youth by focusing on changes in
schools. nutrition education in to the
 Thousands of volunteer curriculum.
administrators, educators, health
professionals, parents, and others take action at  Increasing children’s physical
the state, district, and school level through Action activity by adding or maintaining
for Healthy Kids’ State Teams in all 50 states and
the District of Columbia. physical education courses and
 Through this network, Action for Healthy Kids works recess, and promoting after-school
to improve nutrition and increase physical activity and co-curricular programs.
in schools.
 Because healthy children learn better.  Educating
administrators, teachers, children
and parents about how nutrition and
physical activity impact children’s
 www.indianaactionforhealthykids.org health and academic achievement.
 www.actionforhealthykids.org

30. School Awards Helping to Improve Educate/Resources
• Healthy Hoosier School Award Eating Habits • Display educational posters
•2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Silver • Follow USDA guidelines for and flyers in the school
Awards nutritious meals cafeteria regarding nutrition
•Oak Trace Elementary and exercise
• Follow Nutrition Standards for
•Carey Ridge Elementary Foods in Schools established • Send home flyers and
•Washington Woods Elem. by the Institute of Medicine informational brochures
•Maple Glen Elementary regarding nutrition and
• Follow meal guidelines by the
•Shamrock Springs Elem. exercise
MyPyramid.gov
•Westfield Intermediate • Maintain the FoodService Blog
• Provide fruit and vegetable
•Westfield High School with information and links
choices for lunch and
• Monon Trail Elementary regarding nutrition and
breakfast
• Middle School did not exercise
• Follow snack and ala carte
participate guidelines

31. http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/healthierus/index.html

32. USDA First Lady Sodexo
• The HealthierUS School • Last fall, First Lady Michelle •Student achievement starts with
Challenge was established to Obama called upon all schools nutrition. That’s why Sodexo is so
recognize schools that are to participate in the dedicated to providing
healthy, nutritious offerings in
creating healthier school HealthierUS School school cafeterias around the
environments through their Challenge, and expanded the country.
promotion of good nutrition opportunity to middle and high •We are a leader in K-12 food service
and physical activity schools. and employ more registered
• Four levels of superior • In February 2010, she launched dietitians than any other public
performance are awarded: the Let’s Move campaign to company in America.
Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Gold end childhood obesity in •Our chefs create and kid-test new
of Distinction. America. recipes every day to make sure
students have fresh, delicious, and
nutritious meals, including breakfast
and grab-to-go selections.

33. Sodexo School Services manages foodservice and student well-being activities for more than 470 school districts across
the country. We serve more than 2.8 million school meals each weekday, in addition to nutritious a la carte items and
healthy snacks and beverages. From New England to the Great Northwest, our experience and expertise help us to
understand the unique cultures and effectively serve the needs of local communities, school
administrators, principals, teachers, parents and students.
•We are the market leader in providing products
and programs that promote total student well-
being.
Student Well Being •The goal is to support educators and school
administrators in developing healthy habits and
increased student achievement.
•Kids Way Café, E.D.z (energy download zone) and
CrossRoads Café are age-specific foodservice
School Meal Programs programs to meet the precise needs of growing
children.
•Have access to professionally trained chefs and
registered dietitians who create innovative healthy
Management Teams breakfast and lunch offerings focused on taste and
nutrient analysis for questions or consults.

34. U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
U. S. Department of Agriculture

35.  The Dietary Guidelines for  The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is based on
the recommendations put forward by the Dietary
Americans, first published in Guidelines Advisory Committee.
1980, provides science-based  The more we learn about nutrition and
advised to promote health and to exercise, the more we recognize their importance
reduce risk for chronic diseases in everyday life.
through diet and physical activity.  Children need a healthy diet for normal growth and
development, and Americans of all ages may reduce
 The recommendations contained their risk of chronic disease by adopting a nutritious
within the Dietary Guidelines are diet and engaging in regular physical activity.
targeted to the general public  However, putting this knowledge into practice is
over 2 years of age who are living difficult. More than 90 million Americans are
affected by chronic diseases and conditions that
in the United States. compromise their quality of life and well-being. To
 Because of its focus on health correct this problem, many Americans must make
significant changes in their eating habits and
promotion and risk reduction, the lifestyles.
Dietary Guidelines form the basis  More so than ever, consumers need good advice to
of federal food, nutrition make informed decisions about their diets.
education, and information
programs.
 By law, the Dietary Guidelines is  The 2005 Dietary Guidelines will help
reviewed, updated if Americans choose a nutritious diet
within their energy requirements.
necessary, and published every 5
years.

36. Dietary Guidelines
The Dietary Guidelines aids
There is a growing body of The information in the Dietary policymakers in designing and
Guidelines is useful for the implementing nutrition-related
evidence which demonstrates development of education
that following a diet that programs.
materials.
complies with the Dietary The Federal Government bases its
Guidelines may reduce the risk The federal dietary guidance- nutrition programs, such as the
of chronic disease. related publications are required National child Nutrition Programs
by law to be based on the Dietary or the Elderly Nutrition Program,
A basic premise of the Dietary Guidelines. on the Dietary Guidelines.
Guidelines is that nutrient needs The USDA Food Guide, the food The Dietary Guidelines
should be met primarily through label, and Nutrition Facts Panel recommends nutrient intakes
consuming foods. provide information that is useful within energy needs by adopting a
Nutrient supplements cannot for implementing key balanced eating pattern, such as
replace a healthful diet. recommendations in the Dietary the USDA Food Guide.
Guidelines.

38. The purpose of Sodexo’s Student Well-Being by
Sodexo is committed to student health and success
Sodexo’s Healthy Initiative Guide
> U.S. Department of
Influencing School Meal Nutrition Guidelines
Healthy Initiative Guide: Agriculture (USDA) Healthier Sodexo
1. To help employees gain a US School Challenge
better understanding of the www.fns.usda.gov/tn/healthi Student Well-Being: A state
state of childhood nutrition erus/index.html of health and success
nurtured through an
2. To provide employees awareness of choices in
with access to current > Institute of Medicine of nutrition, achievement,
nutrition guidelines the National Academies environment, community and
3. To highlight regulations activity.
www.iom.edu/CMS/3788/301
and organizations that 81.aspx Sodexo School Services is
influence nutrition guidelines committed to delivering
4. To provide a resource for effective programs that help
snacks and beverages that > Alliance for a Healthier students, teachers and
meet nutrition and wellness Generation employees understand
guidelines www.healthiergeneration.org nutritional concepts and
allow them to make informed
decisions that support a
healthy lifestyle.

39. Health issues such as
obesity, diabetes and
heart disease continue
to lead health concerns
for America’s youth.
More than12.5 million
children/adolescents
(17 percent of those
age 2 to 19 years)
are overweight.
Prevalence of Overweight Among Children and Adolescents: United States,
1999-2000. (2002). National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention Web site.

40. Obesity Trends – U.S. Adults
BRFSS, 1990, 1998, 2006
(*BMI 30, or about 30 lbs. overweight for 5’4” person)
Center for Disease Control maps show increase in obesity among
adults since 1990. A child with two overweight parents has a 60%
to 80% likelihood that he/she will be overweight as an adult.
No Data <10% 10%–14% 15%–19% 20%–24% 25%–29% ≥30%
Source: Childhood Obesity -- Advancing Effective Prevention and Treatment: An Overview for Health Professionals
(Issue Paper). National Institutes for Health Care Management Foundation. April 9, 2003.

41. Marketing venues that are in every
school.
Middle School –
Elementary School –
Performance Zone
Lift-Off!
High School –
Balance Mind, Body and Soul

42. WWS Participation
Healthy Hoosier Chefs Moves to Fuel Up to Play 60
Project 18 in
School Awards in School is a program
Alliance with
alliance with the Program, which is launched by the
Peyton Manning
Indiana Action for part of Michelle NFL and National
Children’s Hospital
Healthy Kids. Our Obama’s “Let’s Dairy Council that
at St. Vincent and
schools have won Move” involves kids
Ball State
the Silver Award effort, involves directly in
University. We are
for two years chefs adopting improving nutrition
again participating
straight. schools to educate and physical
at the Elementary
kids about food activity in their
Schools.
and nutrition. schools.

43. Meeting the Guidelines is a work in progress which will be
updated as guidelines change or new requirements are
introduced.
The Food Service at Westfield Washington Schools strive to
meet or exceed the guidelines presented by both the
Federal and State Governments.
If you should have any questions or comments concerning
the content herein, please do not hesitate to contact:
Karen Howes, General Manager, at 317-867-8060.
The materials and information presented herein were
researched and compiled by: Susan Luther, Administrative
Assistant. You may contact Susan at 317-867-8062.
howesk@wws.k12.in.us
luthers@wws.k12.in.us

44. The Nutrition Committee has
implemented many positive changes
within our schools.

45. Parent
Volunteers Promote Healthy
Food and Nutrition
Food Service Achieve and Exceed
Employees Nutrition Guidelines
School Your Support is KEY
Employees
Working Together To Make Wellness Fun and Exciting

46. https://blogs.wws.k12.in.us/foodservice/