ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2020
Alignment Of US School Lunches With The EAT-Lancet Healthy Reference Diet's Standards For Planetary Health.
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- The Health and Environmental Impacts, Safety, and Affordability of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet: A Multidisciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
- State-Level Promotion of Plant-Based School Meals in the United States: A National Policy Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Adherence to various dietary quality indices of centenarian offspring in the New England Centenarian Study.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2026Article
- Evaluating the diet in Germany with two indices focusing on healthy eating and planetary healthy eating using nationwide cross-sectional food intake data from DEGS1 (2008-2011).European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Evaluating Food Procurement against the EAT-International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Improving school lunch menus with multi-objective optimisation: nutrition, cost, consumption and environmental impacts.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Personal, behavioural and socio-environmental correlates of emerging adults' sustainable food consumption in a cross-sectional analysis.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- School lunchboxes as an opportunity for health and environmental considerations: a scoping review.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Nutritional quality and greenhouse gas emissions of vegetarian and non-vegetarian primary school meals: A case study in Dijon, France.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
By feeding more than thirty million schoolchildren daily, the National School Lunch Program's food offerings substantially influence a contributing factor to climate change: US food production methods. Modifying school lunch nutrition standards could be a policy strategy to reduce climate change while promoting human health. To estimate how school lunches could be adjusted to encourage both outcomes, we compared the composition of school lunches with the EAT-Lancet Commission's healthy reference diet science-based benchmarks for reducing food system impacts on climate change. Analyzing more than 5,000 lunches served in the US during school year 2014-15, we found that they exceeded EAT-Lancet targets for dairy, fruit, refined grains, red meat, and starchy vegetables while containing insufficient whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and nuts. In addition, estimated food costs were higher for school lunches than for lunches meeting EAT-Lancet targets. Our findings suggest that redesigning school lunches could provide high-quality nutrition while benefiting the environment and reducing food costs.
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