Education News – Kristin Decarr
“According to a recently released survey, children are eating more fruit at school thanks to the recent changes to government-subsidized school lunches, and are even throwing less food away. The study, which appeared in the journal Childhood Obesity, discovered that from 2012, when the changes first went into effect through last year, the number of students who chose fruit for their school lunch rose from 54% to 66%. In addition, the study found that children are throwing less food away from their school lunches than they had been prior to the introduction of the new guidelines. Before the new guidelines, students ate 71% of their lunches, not including fruit. As of last year, that percentage had reached 84%…The School Nutrition Association believes the study did not use enough schools to reach a conclusion on the subject. Partially backed by major food companies, the group feels the new standards introduced food waste while simultaneously increasing costs.”(more)