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New research brief on removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias' positive impact on student population nutrition

April 15, 2021

By Danielle Lee

Sugar-sweetened beverages, including chocolate milk, are the leading source of added sugars in youths' diets.

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New toolkit from Feeding America provides guidance on how to develop a food bank nutrition policy developed by NPI

March 23, 2021

By Danielle Lee

Feeding America published a new resource, the Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit, aimed to guide the charitable food sector to better meet the nutritional and cultural food needs of people they serve.

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NPI researchers use factor analysis method to evaluate the effect of school nutrition environments on child health

March 22, 2021

By Danielle Lee

Researchers at the Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI), University of California, Davis, and the University of South Carolina published a new study describing the use of factor analysis methods to evaluate the effectiveness of school nutrition environments on child health outcomes.

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New study with California university students defines student basic needs as more than minimal food and housing

March 19, 2021

By Danielle Lee

Previous research conducted by the University of California (UC) Nutrition Policy Institute identified that, in 2016, 44 percent of undergraduate and 26 percent of graduate students at the UC reported having experienced food insecurity; in addition, 5 percent of students reported experiencing homele...

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Call for manuscript submissions: IJERPH Special Issue on Improving School Nutrition

March 17, 2021

By Danielle Lee

Nutrition Policy Institute's Lorrene Ritchie and Wendi Gosliner, in collaboration with Gurpinder Singh Lalli of the University of Wolverhampton, are guest editors of a Special Issue on Improving School Nutrition: Innovations for the 21st Century in the International Journal of Environmental Research...

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