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This new four-page issue brief details two approaches to ensuring that free and reduced-price school meals go to eligible families. The brief finds that direct certification is useful in improving program access, although it could reach more eligible households. However, a pilot program that...

Provides guidance to nutrition and health researchers for applications of the Dietary Reference Intakes to individuals and groups. Provides statistical and theoretical underpinnings for using the DRIs in assessing dietary intake data and provides quantitative methods for nutritional evaluation.