The aim of the present study was to compare total food intake, total and relative edible plate waste and self-reported food likings between school lunch based on the new Nordic diet (NND) and packed lunch from home. In two 3-month periods in a cluster-randomised controlled unblinded cross-over study 3rd- and 4th-grade children (n 187) from two municipal schools received lunch meals based on NND...

OBJECTIVE At the time of the study a number of schools within Wales had shortened the amount of time they allow for lunch break. The study investigated the association between length of lunch break and the dietary choices of students in secondary schools. DESIGN Student-level data, collected through anonymised questionnaires, included reported dietary choices and correlates of these; data on ...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence on how diet changes over the transition from primary to secondary school. In this study we investigated changes in diet from age 10 (2007) to age 14 years (2011) and the contribution of school-time consumption and school lunch choice to such changes. METHODS The 351 participants with dietary data (4 day food record) available at baseline (age 10 years) and...

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 ...

background: this study aims to assess the pattern of meal frequency consumption of iranian children and adolescents at national and subnational levels according to the socioeconomic status (ses) of the living region. methods:  this multi-centric study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 students, aged 6-18 years, who were selected by multistage random cluster sampling from 30 provinces. mea...

Some philosophers (see (Armstrong, 1997), (Cameron, 2008), (Melia, 2005), and (Schaffer, 2007, 2009, 2010a)) have recently suggested that explanations of a certain sort can mitigate our ontological commitments. The explanations in question, grounding explanations, are those that tell us what it is in virtue of which an entity exists and has the features it does. These philosophers claim that th...

BACKGROUND The presence of distracting stimuli during eating increases the meal size and could thereby contribute to overeating and obesity. However, the effects of within-meal distraction on later food intake are less clear. OBJECTIVE We sought to test the hypothesis that distraction inhibits memory encoding for a meal, which, in turn, increases later food intake. DESIGN The current study ...