Nutritional quality of lunches at a Seventh-Day Adventist school

<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if what the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade children (n=36) at Central Valley Christian Academy (CVCA) were eating for lunch followed the beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church and if lunches brought from home (LFH) provided more nutritional quality than combination lunches.</p> <p>This study showed that LFH (n=26) provided more overall nutrients for the students when compared with school-provided entrée lunches (n=1) and combination lunches (n=9). When comparing LFH with combination lunches, LFH met more of the nutritional requirements based on the Recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005.</p> <p>The health message of the SDA church encourages an increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, adding high fiber foods to the diet, and a moderate consumption of fats, oils, sweets, meat, and dairy products. Students at CVCA fell short of all of these recommendations.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Health Sciences

Year

2006

Author dc:creator

• Markert, M. Justine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alice Jo Rainville, PhD, RD, CHE, SFNS, Chair
• Judi Brooks, PhD, RD
• Lydia Kret, MS, RD

• Seventh-Day Adventists Nutrition
• Children Nutrition
• School children Food
• Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/50

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-1049