| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Critical issues in health and medicine series |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Contents |
Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "The old-fashioned lunch box ... seems likely to be extinct": the promise of school meals in the United States -- 2. (Il)Legal lunches: school meals in Chicago -- 3. Menus for the melting pot: school meals in New York City -- 4. Food for the farm belt: school meals in rural America -- 5. "A nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished": school meals under Federal relief programs -- 6. From aid to entitlement: creation of the National School Lunch Program -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the author |
| Summary |
Historian A.R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it has been so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, health authorities, politicians, and the food industry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2018) |
| Subject |
National School Lunch Program (U.S.) |
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National school lunch program -- History
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Children -- Nutrition.
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Politics, Practical.
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Schools.
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Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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Government Programs -- history
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Nutrition Policy -- history
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Politics
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Lunch
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Schools
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Socioeconomic Factors
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politics.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Schools
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Politics, Practical
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Children -- Nutrition
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National school lunch program
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813584096 |
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0813584094 |
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9780813584089 |
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0813584086 |
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9780813590868 |
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0813590868 |
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