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Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study
- Source :
- Nutrients, Nutrients, Vol 13, Iss 17, p 17 (2021), Volume 13, Issue 1
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2020.
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Abstract
- Childhood obesity remains a pressing public health concern. Children consume a substantial amount of their caloric intake while in school, making the passage of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) in 2010 and the subsequent improvements to the school meal standards a key policy change. Using data from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study, this paper seeks to re-examine the association between students&rsquo<br />(N = 1963) weight status and participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) since the implementation of these policy changes to determine whether, and how, this relationship has changed. After controlling for a wide array of student characteristics and school-level fixed effects, findings from the multivariate regression analyses indicate that usual participation in the school meal programs has no clear association with students&rsquo<br />weight status, which contradicts findings from earlier studies conducted prior to the passage of the HHFKA. These findings are discussed in relation to changes in the demographic composition of usual NSLP participants over time.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatric Obesity
Adolescent
education
lcsh:TX341-641
body mass index
Childhood obesity
Article
Nutrition Policy
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Association (psychology)
Child
Students
Weight status
School Health Services
Meal
Nutrition and Dietetics
Schools
Public health
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Body Weight
Food Services
School Nutrition Meal Cost Study
School Breakfast Program
National School Lunch Program
medicine.disease
School meal
United States
school meal participation
weight status
Costs and Cost Analysis
Female
Food Assistance
Psychology
Body mass index
lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20726643
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nutrients
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....31ec568a991d35422a96675652c1d776