Nutrition Policy: Because it takes more than willpower
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Strengthen the National School Lunch and Other Child Nutrition Programs

  • HHFKA Summary
  • 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization Recommendations
  • Update National School Nutrition Standards for Vending and Other Food Sold Outside of School Meals
  • NANA's letter to USDA on Recommendations for Applying the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to the School Meal Programs

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    Fact Sheets

    School Foods Outside of Meals:

  • National Nutrition Standards for Foods Sold Out of Vending, School Stores and Other Venues Outside of School Meals
  • School Food Funding Myths
  • School Meals:

  • Nutritional Quality of School Meals
  • School Meal Reimbursement Rates
  • Milk in Schools
  • USDA Foods (commodities)
  • USDA Fact Sheet on USDA Foods
  • USDA video on USDA Foods
  • Additional Child Nutrition Fact Sheets:

  • Nutrition Education and Promotion
  • School Wellness Policies Backgrounder
  • WIC Program Backgrounder
  • Child Care and the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
  • The Importance of Obesity Prevention in Child Care Settings (Webinar)
  • Obesity and Other Diet-Related Diseases in Children
  • Hunger and Obesity (by the Food Research and Action Center)
  • RWJF Policy Brief:  Improving Child Nutrition Policy (on school meals and foods outside of meals)
  • RWJF Research Brief: School Foods Sold Outside of Meals