{"id":1298,"date":"2009-01-03T14:21:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:35","slug":"packed-lunches-provided-by-texas-parents-too-low-in-fiber-and-many-other-nutrients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Packed lunches provided by Texas parents too low in fiber and many other nutrients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch contents were observed and recorded for 3 consecutive days for 74 kids. More than 50% of the 3-day means provided less than 33% of the Dietary Reference Intakes for energy (n=58), carbohydrate (n=59), vitamin A (n=58), calcium (n=49), iron (n=44), and zinc (n=38). 96% of the children received less than 33% of the recommended amount of dietary fiber, yet the mean amount of sodium in observed lunches was 114% of the recommendated amount. 71% of the observed lunches did not meet the standards for servings of F&#038;V or for servings of milk (80%). Sack lunches sent from home may not regularly provide adequate nutrients for the growth and development of young children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19103336?dopt=Abstract\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch contents were observed and recorded for 3 consecutive days for 74 kids. More than 50% of the 3-day means provided less than 33% of the Dietary Reference Intakes for energy (n=58), carbohydrate (n=59), vitamin A (n=58), calcium (n=49), iron (n=44), and zinc (n=38). 96% of the children received less than 33% of the recommended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}