Sixty years of the National Food Program in Brazil

School meals were introduced in the Brazilian political agenda by a group of scholars known as nutrition scientists' in the 1940s. In 1955, the Campanha de Merenda Escolar, the first official school food program, was stablished, and sixty years after its inception, school food in Brazil stands...

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Main Authors: Rosana Maria NOGUEIRA, Bruna BARONE, Thiara Teixeira de BARROS, Kátia Regina Leoni Silva Lima de Queiroz GUIMARÃES, Nilo Sérgio Sabbião RODRIGUES, Jorge Herman BEHRENS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas 2016-04-01
Series:Revista de Nutrição
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-52732016000200253&lng=en&tlng=en