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Content: Amongst
 
the
 
plethora
 
of
 
possible
 
solutions,
 
perhaps
 
they
 
should
 
look
 
first
 
at
 
the
 
nutritional
 
substance
 
of
 
what
 
our
 
school-aged
 
children
 
are
 
eating
 
each
 
day
 
as
 
they
 
struggle
 
through
 
a
 
day
 
of
 
learning. There
 
is
 
a
 
correlation
 
between
 
nutrition
 
and
 
cognition
 
as
 
well
 
as
 
psychosocial
 
behavior; this
 
relationship
 
has
 
been
 
highly
 
under-researched,
 
but
 
there
 
exists
 
many
 
studies
 
that
 
look
 
at
 
the
 
nutritional
 
benefits
 
of
 
many
 
proteins,
 
vitamins,
 
and
 
food
 
substances
 
as
 
they
 
affect
 
learning
 
and
 
brain
 
function. Our
 
schools
 
have
 
the
 
potential
 
to
 
play
 
a
 
vital
 
role
 
in
 
preparing
 
and
 
sustaining
 
our
 
students’
 
potential
 
learning
 
abilities
 
and
 
benefitting
 
their
 
social
 
behaviors
 
by
 
supplying
 
nutritious
 
breakfasts
 
and
 
lunches
 
during
 
school
 
days. Providing
 
the
 
nation’s
 
low-income
 
youth
 
with
 
nutritious
 
food
 
has
 
been
 
a
 
concern
 
for
 
over
 
a
 
hundred
 
years. To
 
see
 
that
 
food
 
insufficient
 
students
 
were
 
adequately
 
fed,
 
school
 
lunch
 
programs
 
began
 
during
 
the
 
Great
 
Depression
 
of
 
the
 
1930’s. From
 
the
 
beginning
 
the
 
program
 
had
 
two
 
goals: to
 
make
 
use
 
of
 
surplus
 
agricultural
 
commodities
 
owned
 
by
 
the
 
government
 
as
 
a
 
result
 
of
 
pr
 
ice-suppo
 
rt
 
agreement
 
with
 
the
 
farmers
 
and
 
to
 
help
 
prevent
 
nutritional
 
deficiencies
 
among
 
low-income
 
school
 
children
 
by
 
feeding
 
them
 
nutritious
 
meals. On
 
June
 
4,
 
1946
 
President
 
Truman
 
signed
 
an
 
act
 
known
 
as
 
the
 
National
 
School
 
Lunch
 
Program
 
(NSLP). This
 
was
 
in
 
response
 
to
 
claims
 
that
 
had
 
been
 
made
 
that
 
many
 
American
 
men
 
were
 
rejected
 
from
 
WWII
 
military
 
service
 
due
 
to
 
diet-related
 
health
 
problems.