Posted on 02/03/2023 10:46:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - School meals for millions of children in the United States would include less added sugar, more whole grains, and lower sodium content under new standards proposed by the Biden administration on Friday.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the updated standards, which would be rolled out over the next several years, were essential to tackling health concerns like childhood obesity and to preparing young people for adult life.
"This is a national security imperative. It’s a health care imperative for our children. It’s an equity issue. It’s an educational achievement issue. And it’s an economic competitiveness issue," he said Friday on a livestreamed event announcing the standards.
About 30 million students eat school lunches and 15 million eat school breakfasts each year, according Department of Agriculture data.
The Biden administration committed to updating school meal nutrition standards as part of its strategy laid out at a conference on hunger last year.
Under the proposed standards, by fall 2024, schools would need to offer whole grain products. By fall 2025, there would be limits for high-sugar products like cereals and yogurts, added sugar in flavored milks, and sodium. Future years would see additional limits on added sugar and sodium.
The Obama administration hiked standards by requiring schools to serve fruits and vegetables every day and offer more whole grain foods. Under the Trump administration, some of those requirements were rolled back.
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School lunch’s should be a States Issue. Probably actually a local issue.
Biden administration seeks to add MRNA snacks to school nutrition standards——FIFY
I guess they should include things in school lunches that make them sniff better?
Wouldn’t take much. School lunches are surprisingly pathetic.
It is cruel to limit salt for kids. There is no health reason (high blood pressure is not an issue for kids), and salt is literally flavor. You are forcing bland food on poor kids. That’s crazy.
Should not be a government issue-—period.
It will end up the same as when Michelle Obama did it. Instead of nourishing the children the food ended up in the garbage cans, it would be better to present food that they would eat rather than something that gets thrown away.
Moochelle ruined school lunches when she was FLOTUS.
Which the kids wont eat.
Get government out of education. School lunches should be a Board of Directors issue. Every private school has one ...
School lunch’s should be a States Issue. Probably actually a local issue.
Wrong.
School lunches should be a parents issue.
Pack your lunch. It prepares you to succeed in adult life. Right along with making your bed every morning.
They didn’t learn anything from Michelle Obama’s School lunches that wound up in garbage cans all across the country...............
Republicans should be advertising to kids, if you like your school lunches, vote Democrat when you are an adult.
Michelle Obama Lunches part deux!
Kill the federal dep of ed. Education should be 100% regulated and funded outside the federal government.
They tried this before and the kids tossed the lunches in
the trash rather than eat them.
Michael beat Biden to that one.
Virtue signaling mix-up right there.
a potato each if we are paying for it!
School lunches are surprisingly pathetic.
In most schools food is no longer cooked, it is defrosted and heated. It might be interesting to see the connection between wholesale food distributors like Sysco and the politicians who insist on ‘toughened nutrition standards’.
When Michelle O. had her hand in school lunches, food was thrown away by the kids, because they wouldn’t eat the slop they were being served. But the meals were bought and paid for regardless if they were actually eaten.
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