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This 9 page paper reports the history of the National School Lunch Program, when and why it was initiated and presents the same facts for the National Breakfast Program. Data are presented, including number of schools and students participating in the program and the reimbursement schedule for school districts for free, reduced cost and full price lunches. The effects of the program in terms of nutritional intake, vitamins, minerals and other components are reported. Concerns for these children during school holidays is discussed. The paper ends with a discussion about the need to do something about school holidays and in general. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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young men were rejected from serving in the Armed Forces during World War II because they had physical health problems related to poor nutrition (Devaney, Ellwood and Love, 1997).
The Program was initiated in 1946 to provide low-cost or free nutritious foods to children during the school years (Devaney, Ellwood and Love, 1997; Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2004;
Gleason and Suitor, 2003). The Program provides both financial assistance and different commodities to schools whose lunches meet specific nutritional standards (Devaney, Ellwood and Love, 1997; Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine, 2004). In 1966, Congress passed the School Breakfast Program (SBP), providing funding for breakfast in "poor areas and areas where children had to travel a great distance to
school" (Devaney, Ellwood and Love, 1997). It was a pilot program in response to children coming to school without eating breakfast (Devaney, Ellwood and Love, 1997). Research had already shown
the correlation between eating or nutrition and learning abilities (Devaney, Ellwood and Love, 1997). Amendments to the Child Nutrition Act in 1975 made the SBP a permanent program (Devaney, Ellwood
and Love, 1997). During the early 1990s, the program was severely criticized (Gleason and Suitor, 2003). The allegation was the program was contributing to the epidemic of obesity and
thus, diabetes, in children (Gleason and Suitor, 2003). The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act was passed in 2004 (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2004). The reauthorization expanded the fruit
and vegetable snack program into more states as well as Indian reservations (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2004). It also established nutrition education program requirements (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
2004). It allows schools to provide non-dairy, calcium-rich beverage as part of the meal with a note from a parent rather than with a note from a physician (Physicians Committee
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