DIETARY-EFFECTS OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM AND THE SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM

Citation
Ar. Gordon et al., DIETARY-EFFECTS OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM AND THE SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM, The American journal of clinical nutrition, 61(1), 1995, pp. 221-231
Citations number
5
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Nutrition & Dietetics
ISSN journal
0002-9165
Volume
61
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Supplement
S
Pages
221 - 231
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9165(1995)61:1<221:DOTNSL>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
In this paper we use 24-h dietary recall data to assess the dietary ef fects of participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP). After adjustment for differences in characteristics between NSLP participants and nonparticipants, NSLP participation is associated with higher lunch intakes of vitamin A, c alcium, and magnesium, and a lower intake of vitamin C. Although mean intakes of other key dietary components such as food energy, iron, cho lesterol, and sodium are higher for NSLP participants than for nonpart icipants, these differences appear to be due to underlying differences in unobserved characteristics (eg, food preferences, appetites, or fo od energy needs) rather than to the NSLP. Both at lunch and over 24 h, NSLP participation is associated with consumption of a higher percent age of food energy from fat and saturated fat. SBP participation is as sociated with higher breakfast intakes of food energy, calcium, ribofl avin, phosphorus, and magnesium, and with a higher percentage of break fast food energy from fat and saturated fat, and a lower percentage of food energy from carbohydrate.