The Functioning School Lunch
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منابع مشابه
Middle-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: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.32.4.369