Adolescence is an important period of life for healthy growth. Malnutrition during this seminal period may have long-term adverse effects on health and development. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is a lack of nutrition programming ...
Apr 10, 2024
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Most parents, educators and policymakers agree that children should eat healthy foods. However, our peer-reviewed paper suggests the strategy adults often use to achieve that can sometimes backfire. Fortunately, there's an ...
Mar 26, 2024
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School meals are critical to child health. Research has shown that school meals can be more nutritious than meals from other sources, such as meals brought from home.
Mar 19, 2024
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When the lunch bell rings at the Sancta Maria primary school in the Belgian city of Leuven, standard packed meals aren't on the menu for dozens of hungry children.
Mar 14, 2024
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Today's school meals are much healthier than they were for the parents of American kids, but still 1 in 4 school meals are of poor nutritional quality. The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), in place for 2020-25, ...
Jul 31, 2023
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A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have begun to help slow the rise in obesity among America's children—even teenagers who can buy their own snacks, a new study showed.
Feb 13, 2023
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U.S. agriculture officials on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such as cereals, yogurt, flavored milk and breakfast pastries.
Feb 3, 2023
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When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on?
Sep 9, 2022
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In the past, school cafeterias might have served as a source for more punchlines than nutrition. But lunch is a more dynamic and, these days, healthy part of students' lives than many people realize.
Aug 9, 2022
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British primary and secondary schoolchildren are getting the majority of their lunchtime calories from 'ultra-processed' foods, according to a study led by researchers at Imperial College London and published today in the ...
Jul 20, 2022
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