Strategies

Make water readily available in various settings via regular placement of drinking fountains, water coolers, bottled water in vending machines, etc.

Assign higher costs to non-nutritious foods than nutritious foods via incentives, subsidies, or price discounts for healthy foods and beverages or disincentives or price increases for unhealthy choices

Increase the price of snack products high in sugar and fat by adding an excise or sales tax

Increase the price of sugar sweetened beverages (e.g., soda) by adding an excise or sales tax

Provide nutrition information on menus and signboards at restaurants and other food outlets

Regulate the quality of food that can be sold to students through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), à la carte options, vending machines, etc.

Modify the school lunch food environment or school lunch schedules by increasing the convenience of healthy foods, providing healthy options, or ensuring students have enough time to eat

Increase healthy options in vending machines by reducing the price of healthy choices, increasing the number of healthy choices compared to unhealthy choices, etc.

Establish a framework to increase walking and biking trails and improve connectivity of non-auto paths and trails in a particular area

Promote walking and biking to school through education, incentives, and environmental changes; often called SRTS