An Assessment of Fruit Offerings for 7Th and 8Th Grade Students in Texas
Description:
Childhood obesity in America is reaching epidemic proportions. This study explored whether daily online lunch menu information was sufficient to enable parents to advise their children about healthy and unhealthy menu choices in 350 Texas middle schools and whether online menu information strongly correlated with the descriptions of the offerings given by 52 school cafeteria managers in telephone interviews. Although schools are making efforts to describe their offerings, they are not vigorousl…
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Date:
August 2012
Creator:
Paschal, Ryan Tyler
Partner:
UNT Libraries