Food Service Perspectives on National School Lunch Program Implementation
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منابع مشابه
Food waste in a school nutrition program after implementation of new lunch program guidelines.
OBJECTIVE To assess the amount of food waste by meal components according to the new National School Lunch Program guidelines among pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. METHODS For 5 consecutive school days in 1 elementary school, the research team collected school lunch trays and separated meal components into bins relative to each food or beverage appearing on the school's daily menu...
متن کاملChildren’s Food Security and Participation in the National School Lunch Program
In 2013 nearly 8.6 million U.S. children lived in households in which one or more child was food insecure. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is one of the largest federally funded food and nutrition assistance programs that aims to provide nutritious, well-balanced lunches for school-age children. Given the important role this program plays on food and nutrient intake of school-age child...
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This paper examines the associations between food insecurity, participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and children’s well-being. We address problems of selection by restricting our sample to children in families in which at least one child participates in the NSLP. Results suggest that food insecurity is associated with behavioral problems, but not health or cognitive difficu...
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a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Food insecurity National school lunch program Kindergarten We use variation in state kindergarten eligibility dates to explore the protective effects of NSLP participation on household food security by focusing on the research question: What is the impact of the NSLP on household food insecurity among households with a kindergarten-aged child in the Early Childho...
متن کاملMiddle-school students' school lunch consumption does not meet the new Institute of Medicine's National School Lunch Program recommendations.
OBJECTIVE To compare the school lunch consumption of Texas middle-school students with the 2009 Institute of Medicine's (IOM) school meal report recommendations. These new lunch menu patterns increase fruit to one serving and vegetables to two servings, with 50 % wholegrain food. DESIGN Lunch food records were collected from middle-school students from four schools in south-east Texas in the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Behavior and Policy Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2326-4403
DOI: 10.14485/hbpr.2.5.4