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Effectiveness of school food environment policies on children’s dietary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MICHA R ET AL. PLOS ONE. 2018.

Systematic review includes 12 studies evaluating school meal standards implemented in the US, Canada, or UK, which were found to: increase fruit intake, reduce total fat, saturated fat, and sodium (but not total calories), and decrease BMI (although other adiposity measures evaluated were unchanged).