snack food – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

November 25, 2014

Children consumed less salt, sugar and calories when they ate snacks provided by after-school programs than when they ate snacks from home or other sources

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Steven Gortmaker, PhD, is co-author on a study published in Preventing Chronic Disease that identifies the source of children’s consumption of junk food in Boston’s after-school programs in April-May, 2011.