February 12/NewsRx Health -- A special Supplement to the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association presents findings from the recently released Third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (SNDA-III), conducted by Mathematica Policy Research Inc., as well as research from other studies using SNDA-III data. Sponsored by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), SNDA-III assesses the quality and contributions of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP), longstanding government efforts to bring good food to the children of America.
The NSLP operates in nearly all public and many private schools in the U.S., providing subsidized meals to more than 30 million children each school day. More than 10 million children also take advantage of the SBP, which became a permanent federal program in 1975.