Availability of foods in high schools: is there cause for concern?
Availability of foods in high schools: is there cause for concern?
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高中食物的供应：有理由担心吗？
DOI：
10.1016/s0002-8223(96)00039-9
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发表时间：
1996
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通讯作者：
B. Kalina
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作者：
M. Story;M. Hayes;B. Kalina
The national school meal programs are undergoing major changes. In 1994, Congress passed the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act, which amended the 1966 National School Lunch Act (1). The new legislation requires that meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2), beginning no later than the 1996 to 1997 school year (1). The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed rules that outline regulations for improving the nutritional standards of school feeding programs (3) and implementing the requirements for food-based menu systems (4). The impetus behind the new legislation and the USDA proposed rules is that national studies consistently show that diets of American children, including meals served in schools, do not conform to the recommendations of the Dietary Guldelines. For example, data from the 1987-88 USDA Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals found that fat constituted, on average, 35% of energy in th e diets of children aged 6 to 19 years (5). Also, findings from the USDA School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (6) showed that student lunches exceeded the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for intake of fat and saturated fat. Accumulating scientific research on the relationship between diet and chronic disease risk and the childhood origins of those diseases (7-9) has focused national attention on the need to improve children's diets and the need for primary prevention of chronic diseases in adulthood.Neither the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act nor the USDA proposals include any changes for non-USDA meal alternatives or competitive foods. The USDA proposed rule for nutrition objectives for school meals is only for breakfast and lunch meals that are reimbursed by the USDA. Students, however, have a variety of meal options in addition to the National School Lunch Program, including leaving school to buy food or purchasing food from vending machines, school stores, and a la carte or snack bars. Thus, USDA meals may compete with a range of other foods available to students within and outside of schools.
