Perceived reactions of elementary school students to changes in school lunches after implementation of the United States department of agriculture's new meals standards: Minimal backlash, but rural and socioeconomic disparities exist

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 349-356

  Turner, Lindsey ^a,b   Chaloupka, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD PREFERENCE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITION; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LUNCH; MALE; MENU PLANNING; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84905511002     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2014.0038     Document Type: Article

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