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Legal Advocacy for the Hungry and Malnourished: How Can Nutrition Scientists Help?
Pages 162-164

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... A recent survey of selected centers showed an average 20% increase in emergency food recipients between 1983 and 1984, with more than 61% of He centers reporting that more than 50~o of their clients were families win children (FRAC, 19841. Although the United States is, or1 the whole, a wealthy and perhaps overfed nation, 15% of the population lives below the poverty level a level based on the ability to purchase a minimally nutritious diet (U.S.
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... IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF CHILD NUTRITION The National School Lunch Program is a federal food assistance program that provides lunches to 23 million children in He United States every day. When the Department of Health and Human Services is telling the American public that the fat in their diets is probably a controllable contributor to the incidence of cancer, and when so many Amencans are struggling to reduce their sodium intake, it makes sense to look more carefully at the meals that are provided to so many schoolchildren every day.
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... " The article also reported on McDonalds' efforts to open their fast-food operations inside schools in competition with school lunch programs. After describing some of the high-fat, high-salt items being taste-tested by students for local lunch programs, the Post article reported: "Today's food service directors are caught in a bind, a balancing act in which they must juggle economic constraints, parental pressures and the powerful merchandising effects of fast-food restaurants with the need to provide a quick nutritious lunch that students will eat." lathe Post furler reported Mat a local high school cafeteria manager claimed to sell 160 senings of french fries and onion rings per day versus 6 individual cartons of yogurt and 35 helpings from Me salad bar per day.
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