Estimates of the Nutritional Impact of Non-Participation in the National School Lunch Program during COVID-19 School Closures.
Estimates of the Nutritional Impact of Non-Participation in the National School Lunch Program during COVID-19 School Closures.
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COVID-19疫情导致学校普遍关闭，减少了数百万先前参与美国农业部（USDA）全国学校午餐计划（NSLP）的学生获得校餐的机会。平均而言，学校准备的饭菜比家里准备的饭菜更有营养。在缺乏衡量大流行期间儿童饮食变化的最新数据的情况下，本文旨在对大流行对美国学龄儿童的营养影响提供保守的、粗略的估计。我们使用了美国农业部关于2019年和2020年提供的NSLP午餐数量的行政数据，以及美国农业部学校营养和膳食成本研究关于学校准备和家庭准备午餐质量的全国代表性数据。我们估计了2020年3月至11月NSLP参与者午餐时间卡路里和营养素的变化，与2019年同期相比。我们估计，一个不接受学校膳食的NSLP参与者每周会增加640卡路里的热量消耗，并减少钙和维生素D等营养素的消耗。由于2020年3月至11月每周提供的午餐数量比前一年减少了2700万至7800万份，因此在全国范围内，学生每周可能额外消耗30亿至100亿卡路里。随着学生返校，必须增加学校供餐的参与，更新营养政策，以解决可能扩大的营养差距。
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread school closures, reducing access to school meals for millions of students previously participating in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National School Lunch Program (NSLP). School-prepared meals are, on average, more nutritious than home-prepared meals. In the absence of recent data measuring changes in children’s diets during the pandemic, this article aims to provide conservative, back-of-the-envelope estimates of the nutritional impacts of the pandemic for school-aged children in the United States. We used administrative data from the USDA on the number of NSLP lunches served in 2019 and 2020 and nationally representative data from the USDA School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study on the quality of school-prepared and home-prepared lunches. We estimate changes in lunchtime calories and nutrients consumed by NSLP participants from March to November 2020, compared to the same months in 2019. We estimate that an NSLP participant receiving no school meals would increase their caloric consumption by 640 calories per week and reduce their consumption of nutrients such as calcium and vitamin D. Because 27 to 78 million fewer lunches were served per week in March–November 2020 compared to the previous year, nationally, students may have consumed 3 to 10 billion additional calories per week. As students return to school, it is vital to increase school meal participation and update nutrition policies to address potentially widening nutrition disparities.
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影响因子：
4.8
作者：
Cohen JFW;Jahn JL;Richardson S;Cluggish SA;Parker E;Rimm EB
通讯作者：
Rimm EB
DOI：
10.1007/s11524-020-00476-0
发表时间：
2020-12
期刊：
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
影响因子：
--
作者：
McLoughlin GM;McCarthy JA;McGuirt JT;Singleton CR;Dunn CG;Gadhoke P
通讯作者：
Gadhoke P
影响因子：
2.2
作者：
Brazendale, Keith;Beets, Michael W.;Weaver, Robert G.
通讯作者：
Weaver, Robert G.
影响因子：
5.5
作者：
Franckle R;Adler R;Davison K
通讯作者：
Davison K
影响因子：
5.9
作者：
Cohen JFW;Hecht AA;McLoughlin GM;Turner L;Schwartz MB
通讯作者：
Schwartz MB