Sentences with phrase «minimum calorie requirement»

On the flavored milk issue as Janet Poppendieck points out there are issues of shelf - stability and waste as well as the minimum calorie requirements that it would be nice to see actual lobbying to address to give schools more flexibility not to push so many calories.

The meat and grain restrictions also led to smaller lunch entrees, making it difficult for some schools to meet minimum calorie requirements for lunches without adding items, such as gelatin, that generally do not improve the nutritional quality of lunches.

Perhaps new standards, as suggested by the Institute of Medicine and required under the pending Child Nutrition Act, would help — at least by lowering the minimum calorie requirements for schools meals.

Meal plans can help teenage girls meet minimum calorie requirements.

Not exact matches

There are minimum requirements for the amount of calories or nutrients that a food product for a school may contain, but there are no maximums for these items.

I have a few quibbles with this post — for example, it says that there are no maximum nutritional requirements for the federal lunch program, only minimums, but in fact meals can't provide more than 30 % of calories from fat and or more than 10 % from saturated fat.

If you are eating a low number of calories, you might want to weigh and record everything you eat and then calculate whether you are meeting the minimum protein intake requirements (I believe 45 - 50g / day).