Dec 15 The many mixed messages schools send students on healthy eating By Laura Santhanam In schools, where companies enjoy a captive audience, food marketing is widespread -- on pizza packaging, football game scoreboards and vending machines, for example. But the messages on healthy eating in the classroom often conflict with both that marketing and… Continue reading
May 18 House bill would scale back number of free school meals By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday weighed legislation that could lower the number of students receiving free and reduced-price meals at school. Continue reading
Jan 20 Senate panel approves bill to make school lunches tastier By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- School meals could become a bit tastier under legislation approved by a Senate committee. Continue reading
Dec 10 Congress eases whole grain standards for school lunches By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congress is taking some whole grains off the school lunch line. A massive year-end spending bill released Tuesday doesn't allow schools to opt out of healthier school meal standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama, as House Republicans… Continue reading
Jul 05 FLOTUS ready to ‘fight until the bitter end’ on nutritious meals in school By Darlene Superville, Associated Press "The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids' health, especially when we're finally starting to see some progress on this issue," Mrs. Obama said at the White House. Continue reading
May 29 Watch Political fight simmers over school lunch menu changes By PBS News Hour The 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act required schools to use more wholesome ingredients and set fat, sugar and sodium limits. But Republican lawmakers have proposed a one-year waiver, arguing that students won't eat the new offerings or that schools can't… Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch USDA Releases New Rules for Snacks Sold at Schools Starting next year, new federal rules from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will regulate the kinds of food and beverages sold at schools in order to lower the amount of fat, salt and sugar in kids' diets. Ray Suarez gets… Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch Calories and the Constitution Students investigate the connection between the U.S. Constitution and school lunches. Continue watching
May 12 Watch Mississippi Wages Fried Food Fight Against Childhood Obesity As First Lady Michelle Obama implements a national plan to end the U.S.'s childhood obesity epidemic, Betty Ann Bowser looks at the battle being waged in Mississippi against the fried foods that have become traditional staples in the state. Continue watching