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National School Lunch Program
Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005
Program accomplishments...
In fiscal year 2001, 4,543 million lunches were served and this is expected to increase by another 67 million in fiscal year 2002. Since 1995, school lunches have been required to provide, over a school week, 1/3 at the Recommended Dietary Allowance For Key Nutrients and 1/3 of the calories needed by growing children. They also must conform to the recommendations of The Dietary Guideline for Americans, including limitations on calories from fat (no more that 30 percent of total calories) and saturated fat (less than 10 percent of total calories) averaged over the school week. Recognizing that simply updating standards would not improve children's diets and health, USDA has established Team Nutrition to implement the new regulations to provide nutrition education and technical assistance for children, their families and local school food service professionals.
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