Abstract
% Daily requirements 3‐5 y 23.5 40.9 2.7 37.5 6.9 37.3 12.3 % Daily requirements 7‐10 y 18.9 28.0 2.2 23.5 6.9 21.8 12.3 Values are averages for four lunches and and morning breaks against percentage of daily requirements; * values for 4‐6 years old Anthropometric data (height and weight) were taken from 51 pupils by using local methods. Data from 11 children were not considered due to not knowing their birthday date (orphans) leaving a sample of 20 boys (aged between 4 and 9.5 years) and 20 girls (aged between 2 and 10 years). The majority of children had normal BMI and 3 boys and 4 girls had their BMI within the overweight/obese categories. No BMI under the thinness category was found. The latter could be possibly due to not being a representative sample or measurement errors. Knowing the school is located within an undeveloped area, the food supplied within school time should be the major contributor for a
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