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Article: Factors affecting students' participation in the Cincinnati public schools lunch program.
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- September 22, 1995
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INTRODUCTION
The decline of participation in the school lunch program by high school students has become a serious problem. In spite of the availability of free lunches to needy school-age children, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported that only 22.3 million of the nation's 47 million students participated in the National School Lunch Program in 1988. The lack of participation, particularly by high school students, has become a serious problem for those concerned with school lunch consumption (Akin, Bass, Guildey, & Popkin (1981).
In examining high school students' behavior and attitudes toward the school lunch program, several factors that affect ...