School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children

This podcast provides a historical overview of the emergence of school meal programs and provides recommendations to update the nutrition standard and the meal requirements for the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. The recommendations reflect new developments in nutrition science, increase the availability of key food groups in the school meal programs, and allow these programs to better meet the nutritional needs of children, foster healthy eating habits, and safeguard children's health. Visit the IOM report page.

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School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children is an episode from The Sounds of Science from the National Academies.

This episode is 10:59 long.

This episode was published on Aug 31, 2010.

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