Variability in Dietary Quality of Elementary School Lunch Menus with Changes in National School Lunch Program Nutrition Standards

Nutrition standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. Final rule.

This final rule updates the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs to align them with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This rule requires most schools to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and low-fat fluid milk in school meals; reduce the levels of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat in mea...

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 ...

Do the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs Improve Children’s Dietary Quality?

verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. We thank Ximing Wu for helpful discussions on modeling risky behavior and econometric issues. 2 Governmental programs aimed at children are used extensively throughout the United States for a variety of reasons, most notably to provide nutritious meals to ch...

Food Preparation for the School Lunch Program and Body Weight of Elementary School Children in Taiwan

In investigating the association between the school lunch programs and children's body weight, this study focuses on the school lunch programs in Taiwan. Using a national representative dataset of elementary schoolchildren, we estimate a mixed multinomial logit model to cope with the potential endogeneity issue, and examine how different types of food preparations for school meal programs may a...

CFR Parts 210 and 220 National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program : Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy , Hunger - Free