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When students are inadequately nourished or food insecure, there are detrimental effects to physical health, mental wellness, and academic performance. To combat food insecurity in students, schools must support families to meet their nutritional needs. Supporting families through nutrition-based programming, such as breakfast and snack programs, connecting families to nutritional resources, and nutritional education are all ways that schools can ensure nutritional needs are met both in and out of school.  \nFor humans to be successful, there are basic human needs that must be met. Maslow (1954) categorized needs into physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and selfactualization. Schools and learning environments are often able to fulfill needs of safety, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, but struggle with the base of the hierarchy, physiological needs. Physiological needs are identified as food, water, warmth, and rest, needs that are ideally met in a student’s home. Of all the physiological needs, food is the need that families struggle with most often at home. Providing adequate amounts of food is a need that schools are best equipped to help families with. Lack of access to food is often referred to as food insecurity and affects not only the physical and mental health of students, but also their academic performance (Fletcher & Frisvold, 2017) . In 2018, 12.7% of Canadians were living with some degree of food insecurity (Statistics Canada, 2020, Table 13) . Through education, the implementation of breakfast and nutrition programs, and connecting families with local nutritional resources, schools can start to combat the varying effects that food insecurity has on children.  \nNutrition and Physical Health  \nDiabetes, obesity, and heart disease are health conditions that can be linked directly to food insecurity. Childhood obesity has both immediate and long-term health consequences (Kuku et al. , 2012), including cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and sleep apnea (Childhood Obesity Foundation, 2019) . Children who experience food insecurity in the home are twice as likely as food secure children to be in poor health and are often affected by health concerns such as asthma and anemia (Gundersen & Ziliak, 2015) . Food insecurity can also cause nutrient-deficiency in children. Families who experience food insecurity will often sacrifice the quality of food for quantity, resulting in energy-dense and nutrient-sparse foods (Anisef et al. , 2017) . This means students are often not exposed to fresh fruits and vegetables, which area more expensive food. This lack of nutrients in a student’s diet can lead to stunting, rickets, and bone abnormalities (Haimi & Lerner, 2014) .  \nChildren acquire and learn eating habits as they grow and develop. Implementing quality nutritional education in the school day can have positive effects on a student’s interaction with nutrition (Pérez-Rodrigo & Aranceta, 2003) . Schools are diverse learning environments and as extrafamilial influences become more important to students, they are more open to trying foods they would not have access to at home. Quality nutritional education relies on building upon what students already know and can do. This means that at an elementary level, nutritional education may involve discussing the differences between juice and water. Each beverage is often readily accessible in the home, but has different nutritional values. As students age,  \nnutritional education should focus on preparation of food as well as building further skills they will need later in life (Pérez-Rodrigo & Aranceta, 2003) . Nutritional education in high school may involve preparing food budgets and navigating a grocery store to maximize nutritional value and cost of food. It is important to note that nutr","cbCail06poUsj16U","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail06poUsj16U","pdf",90102,"English","# Abstract\n## Nutrition and Physical Health\n## Nutrition and Mental Health","[{\"question\":\"How does food insecurity affect students’ physical health and academic performance?\",\"answer\":\"Food insecurity undermines physical wellbeing and mental wellness, and it also reduces academic performance. Students may experience poor health and nutrient deficiencies that interfere with learning.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of school-based programming can help combat student food insecurity?\",\"answer\":\"Schools can support families with breakfast and snack programs, connect households to local nutritional resources, and provide nutrition education tailored to community needs.\"},{\"question\":\"What mental health outcomes are associated with childhood hunger or food insecurity?\",\"answer\":\"Food insecurity is linked with depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. Evidence cited also connects childhood hunger to later depression and suicidal ideation in adolescence.\"}]","Hungry Students: Feeding the Body and Mind | PDF",1792080489,13]