The School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study-I: Overview of Findings Related to Improving Diet Quality, Weight, and Disparities in US Children and Policy Implications

Mary Story; Lindsey Miller; Megan Lott

doi:10.3390/nu13041357

The School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study-I: Overview of Findings Related to Improving Diet Quality, Weight, and Disparities in US Children and Policy Implications

Nutrients. 2021 Apr 19;13(4):1357. doi: 10.3390/nu13041357.

Authors

Mary Story¹, Lindsey Miller¹, Megan Lott¹

Affiliation

¹ Healthy Eating Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, 310 Trent Drive, Duke Box 90519, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

Abstract

The national school breakfast and lunch programs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are a cornerstone of the nation's nutrition safety net for children from low-income families [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Body Weight
Breakfast
Child
Child, Preschool
Costs and Cost Analysis
Diet, Healthy / economics*
Diet, Healthy / standards
Female
Food Services / economics*
Food Services / legislation & jurisprudence
Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Lunch
Male
Nutrition Policy*
Nutritional Status
Poverty
School Health Services / economics*
School Health Services / legislation & jurisprudence
Schools
United States