Education News – Grace Smith
“US lawmakers will be voting in less than a month on whether to reauthorize the program mandating healthier school lunches just as a new study has confirmed what school officials have thought all along – that quite a few students are putting the fruits and vegetables on their trays straight into the trash. The end result is that students are consuming less of the healthy food items than they did before the law took effect, writes Sally McCay of the University of Vermont. The study, published in Public Health Reports, is the first to use actual photographs of students’ lunch trays before and after they had eaten. It was also the first time a study has compared fruit and vegetable consumption before the legislation was in place and after the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was passed.”(more)