Christian Estrosi, Deputy Mayor of Nice and President of Nice Côte d’Azur, received the report containing 21 recommendations from the Scientific Council on Nutrition from Professor Stéphane Schneider.
The 28 members of the CSN, chaired by Stéphane Schneider, developed this report as part of the city of Nice taking back control of school catering services.
The 21 recommendations of the Scientific Council on Nutrition:
QUALITY AND SAFETY OF SERVED MEALS
– Proposition 1: Validation of menus/ Labeling of menus prepared by the central kitchen
– Proposition 2: Health monitoring/ Establishment of a monitoring unit composed of CSN scientific experts, to provide an opinion during suspicions and thus enable the City of Nice to respond promptly via a statement from the Mayor.
– Proposition 3: Regulatory monitoring/ Regulatory monitoring (publications from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health) by the services of the Deputy Directorate of School Catering and those of the Public Health Directorate, respectively.
– Proposition 4: Scientific monitoring/ Scientific monitoring by CSN experts, both inside and outside the services of the City of Nice.
– Proposition 5: Public communication/ The City of Nice sets up a website describing its school catering activity.
Creation of an internet page allowing CSN experts to answer specific questions from families.
Questions would be addressed to the Deputy Directorate of School Catering and then forwarded to the CSN.
– Proposition 6: Selection of “organic” products/ Achieving the target set by the Grenelle Environment Round Table, namely, 20% of orders represented by products from organic farming. CSN’s opinion on the upcoming selection of organic farm products.
– Proposition 7: Accommodation of children requiring adapted meals due to pathology. Declaration by the family of a health issue necessitating meal adaptations results in the child’s exclusion from the school restaurant: Implementation of a provisional PAI (Personalized Care Plan). This two-step procedure will allow the child to be quickly accommodated in the school restaurant with a meal defined by a provisional PAI prepared by the City.
– Proposition 8: Accommodation of children requiring adapted meals due to pathology. Meals for allergic children exclude all major allergens and are therefore monotonous and not tasty: Establishment of “mono-allergic” meals.
– Proposition 9: Accommodation of children requiring adapted meals due to pathology. Possibility for parents to provide a packed meal in extreme cases of food allergies.
– Proposition 10: Accommodation of children requiring adapted meals due to pathology. Conducting necessary exams to establish a diagnosis to prevent abuse of diets.
– Proposition 11: Accommodation of children requiring adapted meals due to pathology. Replacement of the term “diabetic diet,” with restrictive connotations, by the term “carbohydrate quantified diet.”
EDUCATION
– Proposition 12: Maintain and develop existing actions – “A fruit for recess” operation accompanied by educational games about fruits for kindergarten children and extend these actions to vegetables; – propose educational games to nursery and elementary students (small train, cards…).
– Proposition 13: Creation of fun workshops – set up a garden (in large planters) in all of the City’s schools, in collaboration with the Directorate of Green Spaces; – organize a treasure hunt at the end of the school year on the theme of dietary balance.
– Proposition 14: Set up culinary workshops – children make simple recipes during Taste Week; – children make cakes or fruit-based preparations during birthday snacks.
– Proposition 15: Actions promoting physical activity – arrange playgrounds to allow physical activities for 60 minutes daily (hopscotch, skipping ropes, small bike paths…); – sports associations intervene during the lunch break with appropriately intense physical activities; – generalize the “pedibus” operation.
– Proposition 16: Distribution of documents to families – in medical offices (national documents); – creation of a brochure on the theme of dietary balance and physical activity, to be given to families during parents’ meetings held at the start of the school year; – ideas for children’s dinner menus distributed to families with the school restaurant menus.
– Proposition 17: Organizing information and tasting sessions – for children and their families; – plan a health day on the theme of dietary balance and physical activity in schools; – produce a DVD on the theme of dietary balance and physical activity loaned to families with an evaluation questionnaire.
TRAINING
– Proposition 18: Training sessions for all staff
Mandatory training sessions for staff on the following themes: – National Health Nutrition Program / Basics of the Mediterranean diet; – Food / Physical activity; – Food / Meal environment; – Food / Ecology; – Specific food related to certain pathologies; – Adult’s positioning and support at the table.
SCREENING
– Proposition 19: Add a screening point during children’s schooling.
Measuring the BMI in CE2. Currently, BMI measurement is done only for children in small and large kindergarten classes and in CM2 classes.
– Proposition 20: Increase the efficiency of managing nutritional disorders. Streamline the management of nutritional disorders respecting parents’ freedom of choice.
It is proposed that the appointment be made directly by the school or attending physician to make the child’s care more effective and quicker.
A communication form would also be set up to ensure better coordination between the stakeholders.
The effectiveness of information sharing will be greater if available in a network.
– Proposition 21: Information for parents of affected children Providing information to parents of children with overweight or obesity by the school health service.
