school lunchStarting in the mid-twentieth century, the US federal government played an increasingly important role in shaping food production and consumption. This paper examines how politics shapes what modern Americans ate, especially as reflected in the evolution of nutritional guidelines and the ...
prepared under federal guidelines, sits on display at the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y. After just one year, some schools across the nation are dropping out of what was touted as a healthier federal lunch program, complaining that so many stude...
New research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that children who eat school lunches that are part of the federal government's National School Lunch Program are more likely to become overweight. The same research study found, however, that children who eat both the breakfast and...
According to No Kid Hungry, it's estimated that roughly 9 million kids live in food insecure homes, meaning they might get only one or two meals a day - if that. One of those could be a meal at school, making it all the more important for a school lunch to remove those sugars. "...
Kraft Heinz has succeeded in getting its ready-to-eat packaged snacks into school lunch programs starting this fall, in a major new initiative. But the company had to reformulate the ingredients to ensure the products meet federal guidelines first. ...
On other food issues, the spending bill would allow fresh white potatoes to be part of the federal Women, Infants and Children nutrition program. The Agriculture Department doesn't currently allow them, even though it allows other fruits and vegetables, because it says people already eat enough ...
The federal school lunch program for 30 million low-income children was created more than half a century ago to combat malnutrition. A breakfast program was added during the 1960s, and both attempted to improve the nutritional value of food served at sch
and long have been subject to government nutrition standards. The 2010 law will extend, for the first time, nutrition standards to other foods sold in schools that aren't subsidized by the federal government. That includes "a la carte" foods on the lunch line and snacks in vending machines....
dietary guidelines in the program that serves breakfast to more than 15 million children and lunch to nearly 30 million children every day, Vilsack said. “School meals happen to be the meals with the highest nutritional value of any meal that children can get outside the home,” Vilsack ...
The start of the school year welcomes students with the promise and expectation of filling their minds with knowledge and—for the 32 million in our nation’s school meal programs—their bodies with nutritious foods. Only this year the implementation of the new federal lunch standards mandated by...