National Policies to Limit Nutrients, Ingredients, or Categories of Concern in School Meals: A Global Scoping Review.

The school food environment is a key intervention point for influencing children's and adolescents' diets. As more countries establish school meal programs to provide critical nourishment to students, establishing standards for the foods served can increase the consumption of key nutrients and limit the consumption of foods that do not build health. This global scoping review explores the prevalence and basic characteristics of national policies that regulate food served through school meals across 193 countries, particularly by restricting the provision of categories, nutrients, or ingredients of nutritional concern.

National Policies to Limit Food Marketing and Competitive Food Sales in Schools: A Global Scoping Review.

School food environments contribute to children's nutritional intake and overall health. As such, the World Health Organization and other public health organizations encourage policies that restrict children's access and exposure to foods and beverages that do not build health in and around schools. This global scoping review explores the presence and characteristics of policies that restrict competitive food sales and marketing for unhealthy foods across 193 countries using evidence from policy databases, gray literature, peer-reviewed literature, and primary policy documents.

Federal Nutrition Program Revisions Impact Low-income Households' Food Purchases.

Introduction: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) required major revisions to food packages in 2009; effects on nationwide low-income household purchases remain unexamined.

Methods: This study examines associations between WIC revisions and nutritional profiles of packaged food purchases from 2008 to 2014 among 4,537 low-income households with preschoolers in the U.S.