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Breakfast Consumption by School-Aged Children and Adolescents and School Performance, Weight-related Outcomes, and Health Outcomes & U.S. School Breakfast Program Best Practices, Including Models of Student Costs and Breakfast Delivery

Overview

Breakfast Consumption by School-Aged Children and Adolescents and School Performance, Weight-related Outcomes, and Health Outcomes
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U.S. School Breakfast Program Best Practices, Including Models of Student Costs and Breakfast Delivery A Series of Rapid Reviews

Overview

In a typical fiscal year, almost 91,000 schools served low-cost or free breakfasts through the U.S. School Breakfast Program to about 15 million students daily. Involvement in the School Breakfast Program can play an influential role in school-age children’s development of a healthy dietary pattern.

The USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review (NESR) team conducted a rapid review for the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Policy Support to summarize evidence to answer the following questions:

  • What are the relationships between eating breakfast and school performance, weight-related outcomes, and health?
  • What best practices exist in the U.S. School Breakfast Program, including models of student costs and breakfast delivery?

A detailed description of the methodology used to complete these rapid reviews is found within the report.

Download final report: Breakfast Consumption by School-Aged Children and Adolescents and School Performance, Weight-related Outcomes, and Health Outcomes AND U.S. School Breakfast Program Best Practices, Including Models of Student Costs and Breakfast Delivery: A Series of Rapid Reviews

The NESR team are scientists from the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion who have expertise in systematic review methodology and in nutrition science, dietetics, public health, and library science. NESR staff worked with staff from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Policy Support to determine the scope of the question and develop the rapid review protocol. A list of the staff who supported this work can be found at the link below.

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Federal Support Staff

NUTRITION EVIDENCE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW BRANCH

Nutrition Guidance and Analysis Division (NGAD)
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
USDA

Brittany James Kingshipp, PhD
Analyst, Panum Group1

Ramkripa Raghavan, DrPH
Analyst, Panum Group1

Darcy Güngör, MS
Analyst, Panum Group1 

Carol Dreibelbis, MPH
Analyst, Panum Group1

Gisela Butera, MLIS, MEd 
Librarian, Panum Group1

Joanne Spahn, MS, RDN
Project Lead, USDA

SPECIAL NUTRITION RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS DIVISION

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
USDA

Kelley Scanlon, PhD, RD 
USDA

Danielle Berman, PhD
USDA

Conor McGovern, MA
USDA

 

CNPP LEADERSHIP

Jackie Haven, MS, RD
Deputy Administrator
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Food and Nutrition Service
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
USDA

Eve Stoody, PhD
Director, Nutrition Guidance and Analysis Division
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Food and Nutrition Service
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
USDA

 

1 Under contract with the Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture.