Outline of the state of New York
State
New York
Addressed

Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Healthy Eating Nutrition—MS

Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Healthy Eating Nutrition—MS

State law addresses healthy eating/nutrition.

8 New York Codes, Rules and Regulations 135.1 Definitions.

(j) Health education means instruction in the understandings, attitudes and behavior in relation to the several dimensions of health, including but not limited to the misuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, the prevention and detection of certain cancers, safety, mental health, nutrition, dental health, sensory awareness, disease prevention and control, environmental and public health, consumer health, first aid, and other health-related areas.

Policy Type
Regulation

New York Consolidated Laws 2599-B Program development.

  1. The childhood obesity prevention program shall include, but not be limited to:
    • (b) establishing school-based childhood obesity prevention nutrition education and physical activity programs including programs described in section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-c of this article.
Policy Type
Statute