A Study on the Effect of School-Feeding

학교급식효과(學校給食效果)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究)

The effect of author's recipe of milk-substituting food was studied on 164 children of a primary school. Dividing the subjects into tow groups, A and B respectively, the former being fed with the author's food and the latter served as control, feeding was continued for 6 months daily at lunch hour, with the following results. (1) The effect of the author's milk-substituting food on the body-physique of the children could not be evaluated because of the short period of observation. (2) As observed clinically, various nutritional deficiency symptoms, such as anemia, angular scar glossitis, and hyperkeratosis, were far less frequently occurred in the fed group, while no such significant reduction of occurrence was noted in the control group. It was concluded from the above results that the well-balanced school feeding to the children Is necessary.