Breakfast-Skipping and Selecting Low-Nutritional-Quality Foods for Breakfast Are Common among Low-Income Urban Children, Regardless of Food Security Status | Zendy

Holly Dykstra | Zendy; Adam Davey | Zendy; Jennifer O. Fisher | Zendy; Heather M. Polonsky | Zendy; Sandra Sherman | Zendy; Michelle L. Abel | Zendy; Lauren C. Dale | Zendy; Gary D. Foster | Zendy; Katherine W. Bauer | Zendy

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Breakfast-Skipping and Selecting Low-Nutritional-Quality Foods for Breakfast Are Common among Low-Income Urban Children, Regardless of Food Security Status

Author(s) -

Holly Dykstra,

Adam Davey,

Jennifer O. Fisher,

Heather M. Polonsky,

Sandra Sherman,

Michelle L. Abel,

Lauren C. Dale,

Gary D. Foster,

Katherine W. Bauer

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463

H-Index - 265

eISSN - 1541-6100

pISSN - 0022-3166

DOI - 10.3945/jn.115.225516

Subject(s) - low income , environmental health , food science , food security , quality (philosophy) , medicine , biology , socioeconomics , economics , agriculture , ecology , philosophy , epistemology

Universal access to the School Breakfast Program (SBP) is intended to help low-income and food-insecure students overcome barriers to eating breakfast. However, SBP participation is often still low despite universal access. Further information is needed with regard to these children's breakfast behaviors, and in particular breakfast behaviors among youth from food-insecure families, to inform effective breakfast interventions.

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