NPR Ed – Maria Godoy & Allison Aubrey
“Most of the kids in the U.S. don’t get much time to eat lunch. And by the time those kids wait in line and settle down to eat, many of them feel rushed. And a recent study suggests that this time crunch may be undermining good nutrition at school…The researchers took note of what students put on their trays. And they also tracked what was left on their trays at the end of lunch period. “Kids who had less than 20 minutes to eat were consuming, across the board, less of everything,” Rimm told us.”(more)