Holding recess before lunch increases fruit and veggie consumption and decreases waste
Students participating in the National School Lunch Program are required to select a fruit and a vegetable side.
January 15, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: lunch, lunch-program, national, national-school, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling
Progress against childhood obesity could be threatened by rolling back school nutrition standards
Efforts to roll back current nutritional standards for the National School Lunch Program could jeopardize gains made in the fight against childhood obesity, write the authors of an article that will…
November 1, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: against-childhood, authors, current-nutritional, fight, gains-made, lunch, lunch-program, national, national-school, on call diets, oncalldiets, the-fight, write-the-authors
Food Safety Standards Need To Incorporate More Sound Science, Analysis
A new National Research Council report finds no scientific basis that more stringent testing of meat purchased through the government’s ground beef purchase program and distributed to various federal food and nutrition programs — including the National School Lunch Program — would lead to safer meat. The U.S…
December 13, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: council, government, ground-beef, lunch-program, national-research, national-school, nutrition / diet, scientific-basis, various-federal
