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Briggs, George M. – 1971
Good nutrition and adequate nutritious food are not only essential to good health but also represent the difference between life and death. Nutrition is the world's number one problem today, along with war and population control. Good nutrition means providing, with care and love, all 45 essential nutrients in adequate amounts to each child -- one…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Breakfast Programs, Food Service, Lunch Programs
Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1971
This study of lunch services in public and private elementary and secondary schools is one of a group evaluating selected aspects of public food assistance programs. During a survey in March 1968, noontime food services were provided in about 75 percent of the nation's schools, serving about 80 percent of all pupils enrolled. Results of the survey…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Lunch Programs
Kriesberg, Martin – 1965
This report is based on a study made during the school year 1962-63. Comparison with a benchmark survey conducted five years earlier shows that during the intervening period the number of public school districts decreased by one-third, while pupil enrollment increased by about 10 percent. The number of lunches served in the National School Lunch…
Descriptors: Costs, Enrollment, Food, Food Handling Facilities
Baehr, Bonnie – School Business Affairs, 1987
A program that provides a cash alternative to actual commodity food items to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Child Nutrition Program has greatly reduced processing charges and virtually eliminated warehousing expenses. By only purchasing the food wanted, and in the form preferred, the children are provided with the full commodity benefits to…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Catholic Schools, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education

Paige, David M.; And Others – Pediatrics, 1976
Examined with 177 disadvantaged elementary school students (5-9 years old, 99 percent Blacks) were the effects of the provision of a nutritionally fortified low-lactose food supplement on hematocrit values (volume percentage of erythrocytes in whole blood), growth, absenteeism, and lunch consumption. (IM)
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Eating Habits, Elementary Education
Bell, Loren; Kenyon, Anne; Heinrich, Todd; Zullo, Dea – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
This report is a followup to an initiative to establish a central website to collect data from States on the National School Lunch and the School Breakfast Programs. A central website could be used by researchers and program administrators to compare and analyze data across State and local areas for participation trends in local school district…
Descriptors: Food, Data Collection, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
Food and Consumer Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1996
Helping children make food choices for a healthy diet can be challenging. This book is designed as a resource guide and cookbook for parents to help them make healthful eating and cooking with children tasty, simple, affordable, and fun. The book is a collection of 50 recipes organized by season, and featuring family nutrition education…
Descriptors: Children, Cooking Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1998
Recognizing the importance of efficient and effective program administration for the success of Utah's Child Nutrition Programs, the State Office of Education developed a manual to assist local program administrators in using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) programs. This document contains Part 1 of the manual's four interrelated…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Crepinsek, Mary Kay; Cole, Nancy; Golding, Joanna – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
This Feasibility Study to Develop a Methodology to Monitor the Impact of Changes in Competitive Food Policies had two main goals: (1) Design and test a plan for collecting and analyzing data about competitive food policies and all foods offered and served to students at school; and (2) Provide a methodology for assessing the impact of changes in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Food Standards, Lunch Programs

Paige, David M.; Graham, George G. – Journal of School Health, 1974
Current results suggest the need to reconsider the rationale of attempts to reinforce the nutritional status of many Negro and some white school children through the continued heavy reliance on school milk programs, and its strong emphasis on milk consumption. Presented at the American School Health Association, October, 1972. (Author)
Descriptors: Black Students, Breakfast Programs, Dietetics, Eating Habits

Integrated Education, 1973
The stenographic record of testimony by five students, one mother, and one former teacher before the House Committee on Education and Labor hearings on amendments to the National School Lunch Act. (JM)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Lunch Programs, Nutrition
Nation's Schools, 1972
National School Lunch officials promise to continue expending their programs on the basis of number of needy children, not necessarily needy schools. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Ancillary School Services, Cost Effectiveness, Food Service

Taylor, Bryan P. – Integrated Education, 1972
The text of testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs concerning the participation of the San Diego Independent School District in the National School Lunch program, by the district superintendent. (JM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Administration, Educational Resources

Boysen, Susan C.; Ahrens, Richard A. – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1972
Report of a four-week nutrition education program conducted with two second grade classes from a school in suburban Maryland. Discusses aims, activities, and pre- and post-test results, including a parent questionnaire. Results indicated knowledge improvement, but stressed the home as the major influence over the food habits of children. (LK)
Descriptors: Children, Eating Habits, Educational Programs, Elementary Education

Emmons, Lillian; And Others – Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1972
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of school breakfasts on the nutritive intake, biochemical indices, and physical growth of elementary school children during one academic year. (DM)
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Lunch Programs