Sometimes, teachers can feel helpless when they have low-income students who they worry are not getting proper nutrition at home. But researchers at Iowa State University have conducted a study which suggests that school lunches go a long way in promoting health in these kids.
A team of scientists found that school nutrition programs promote healthy living by 3.8 percent, reduce poor well-being by 29 percent and cut the rate of obesity by 17 percent. In order to reach their conclusions, the researchers analyzed the data of 2,700 kids who were part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
"We think our results provide good evidence that the school lunch program is having generally beneficial effects on children's health outcomes," said Brent Kreider, an Iowa State professor of economics who collaborated on the study.
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