Spring 2022

Welcome Spring! This is my favorite season as I watch the beautiful trees and flowers start to bloom around campus. I also find it to be a time of rejuvenation…

RECENTLY COMPLETED RESEARCH USDA Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study, SY 2016-17[1] This Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Characteristics study is the first comprehensive study since CEP became available nationwide in School…

Procurement of Foods in Mississippi Delta Schools In Mississippi, the state with the nation’s lowest median household income, more than one third of children are overweight or obese (State Obesity…

Over the past decade, the U.S.’s economic instability has disproportionately affected the families of children from the most vulnerable groups both at home and at school, increasing their risk of…

In 2012, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP), aligned requirements for school meals with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to address the vast need to…

From the What We Eat in America (WWEIA) component of the 2015-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), it was determined that the average Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI) score…

Although vegetarian nutrition is an eating pattern that has been observed throughout history, interest in plant-based eating and vegetarianism has increased in recent years (Leitzmann, 2014). Vegetarian menu items are…