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Childhood Misnourishment, School Meal Programs and Academic Performance
… essays on the relationship between child weight, school meal program participation and academic performance. Chapter II examines how childrens' weight impacts their academic performance using a quantile analysis while controlling for potential simultaneity between weight and school outcomes. …
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CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF FOODS AVAILABLE IN SCHOOLS: THE CASE OF SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
<p>This thesis examines school meal programs as a governmental intervention to improve food security among children. Further, it will examine how the global nutrition transition is affecting school meal programs and what challenges schools have met in their attempts to improve the nutritional …
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Implementation of a multi-component school lunch environmental change intervention to improve child fruit and vegetable intake: a mixed-methods study
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) reaches roughly 32 million children each day, and children participating in the consume up to half of their daily energy intake through school meals. Children waste up to 80% of their vegetables at school meals, and environmental change interventions are …
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An evaluation of the opinions of school nutrition professionals on the new meal pattern being implemented through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) with a focus on the fruit and vegetable components
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally supported school meal program. The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA), 2010 based on the recommendations by Institute of Medicine (IOM) introduced new meal pattern that comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 and these are the …
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Essays on childhood obesity
… to any single factor, such as participation in school meal programs, parental characteristics, or individual characteristics. The findings add to the current obesity debate by demonstrating that the key to curbing childhood obesity may lie in factors generating different obesity rates across …