Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010—a major component of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign—the federal government is required to raise the nutritional standards in free- and reduced-price school meals for the first time in 15 years.
So what's changing? The new school lunch rules would:
- Require milk to be low-fat or skim. Flavored milks must be nonfat.
- Mandate more fruits and veggies
- Set calorie limits for meals (for the first time ever)
- Require that breakfasts include a grain and a protein (instead of one or the other)
- Ban trans fats
- Lower the amount of sodium in school meals over the next decade—with an eventual goal of cutting sodium levels by half
- Eventually require most grains served in schools to be whole grains
via www.takepart.com
Sad that so much of this is wrong.
Fat is not the issue but sugar is. Low fat milk has more lactose in it than full fat – the issue with flavored milk is not fat but sugar – the suage load is huge. Juice has as much sugar as pop – grains are as bad as sugar.
The Fat makes you fat is the CW that is not supported by the science but it is the CW