Association of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 With Body Mass Trajectories of Children in Low-Income Families.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Implemented in 2012, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) increased nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to reverse the potential role of the NSLP in childhood obesity.

Objective

To evaluate whether associations between the free or reduced-price NSLP and body mass growth differed after implementation of the HHFKA.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from 2 nationally representative cohorts of US kindergarteners sampled in 1998 to 1999 and 2010 to 2011 and followed up for 6 years, through grade 5, in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K:1999, in 2003-2004) and Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011 (ECLS-K:2011, in 2015-2016). In total, 5958 children wer

SUBMITTER: Richardson AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9073566 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature