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Strategies to Modify School-Based Foods to Lower Obesity and Disease Risk

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• School-based interventions to modify dietary practices in children are generally supported as a means to reduce obesity and to combat obesity-related disease.

• The in-school dietary practices of children and how these practices have been modified through school-based interventions are discussed in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas, 1 University Station, D3700, Austin, TX, 78712-1204, USA

    John B. Bartholomew

  2. Exercise and Sport Psychology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas, 1 University Station, D3700, Austin, TX, 78712-1204, USA

    Esbelle M. Jowers

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Bartholomew, J.B., Jowers, E.M. (2010). Strategies to Modify School-Based Foods to Lower Obesity and Disease Risk. In: De Meester, F., Zibadi, S., Watson, R. (eds) Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-571-2_24

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