What are the nutritional requirements for meals provided by the School Lunch Program?
- ️️-must provide 1/3rd of RDA for protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C
-no more than 30% of the meal's calories can come from fat
-no more than 10% can come from saturated fat
Food Security - ...
NFSC 100 Exam 4 (Final)
What are the nutritional requirements for meals provided by the School Lunch Program?
- ✔️✔️-must provide 1/3rd of RDA for protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C
-no more than 30% of the meal's calories can come from fat
-no more than 10% can come from saturated fat
Food Security - ✔️✔️-Access by all members at all times to enough food for an active,
healthy life
-availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods
-acquire food in socially acceptable ways
Modifiable - ✔️✔️you can alter the risk factor
ex:smoking, high fat diet, heavy alc, sedentary lifestyle
non modifiable - ✔️✔️you can not alter the risk factor, its innate
Ex: Gender, age, genetics
Levels of disease prevention - ✔️✔️Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Tertiary - ✔️✔️treating and rehabilitating diagnosed patients to delay further disease
progression
causes of food insecurity - ✔️✔️poverty, unemployment, homelessness, wage
discrimination, poor health, single parent families, illiteracy
Causes of food - ✔️✔️
What is Risk Factor? - ✔️✔️A factor that increases the probability of developing a
disease or health problem
What is Metabolic Syndrome - ✔️✔️A cluster of symptoms that increase the risk of
heart disease, stroke, and diabetes
, Benefits of School Lunch Program - ✔️✔️-free lunches to households with incomes at
or below 130% of poverty
-reduced-price lunches to households with incomes between 130-185% of poverty
Do the meals provided generally meet these guidelines? - ✔️✔️No, more than 30
percent of the meals calories come from fat, and no more than 10 percent can come
from saturated fat
Who is served by the WIC program - ✔️✔️Women, infants and children
What benefits come from WIC program - ✔️✔️improves diets, health
decreases low birth weight for babies
less iron deficiency anemia
What are some issues related to the nutrition environment in our schools? - ✔️✔️
What benefits are provided by WIC? - ✔️✔️-supplemental food
-nutrition education
-referrals to health care service
What are some of the beneficial outcomes of WIC participation? - ✔️✔️-improved diets
-improved health
-fever, lower birth weight babies
-less iron deficiency anemia
What can a person purchase with these benefits? - ✔️✔️-breads and cereals
-fruits and vegetables
-meats, fish, and poultry
-dairy products
-seeds and plants which produce food for the household to eat
What CAN'T they purchase with these benefits? - ✔️✔️beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes, or
tobacco
-any nonfood items, such as pet foods, soap, paper products, and household supplies
-vitamins and medicines
-food that will be eaten in the store
-hot foods/prepared foods
What is the difference between and entitlement and a non-entitlement federal program?
- ✔️✔️Entitlement Programs:
-persons qualify because they meet eligibility requirements
-mandatory funds
Non-Entitlement Programs:
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