New Lunch Standards?
From Consumer Affairs:March 6, 2007
Senators today introduced and began discussions on legislation that would enforce stricter regulations on unhealthy snack foods and beverages found in public schools.
"Unhealthy weight, even obesity, among children has increased dramatically over the past 30 to 40 years," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing.
"Rates of obesity among U.S. children and teens tripled between 1980 and 2002," Mary Lou Hennrich, executive director of Community Health Partnership, said at the hearing. "For individuals born in 2000, the chance of developing diabetes during their lifetime is 39 percent for females and 33 percent for males ... One needs to re-examine both the value and the effectiveness of local control with regards to children's health and nutrition."
Harkin, chairman of the Agriculture Committee introduced legislation that will update school nutrition mandates that are almost 30 years old.
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