Grant: Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Nutrition, Metabolism & Diabetes

School lunches have received increasing attention in the last decade as a complex food environment with a major impact on child health. In this project, we will build upon our existing research on food, public health policy, and design in Canada to plan a larger research funding proposal to study school lunch environments in Toronto, Montreal, and Kyoto, Japan. Through this research we will develop a better understanding of how and why children eat the way they do, when influenced by their school environments. Furthermore, it will help us to design better products, services, and policies to support healthy eating in childhood.