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What do you think of updated school food guidelines?
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This academic year is the first for new federal regulations under the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act aimed at promoting good nutrition in school food.
Schools can only provide 1 percent or skim milk. Whole grain-rich food must account for half of grain offerings and the amount of grain, meat and meat alternates are all limited. Students are still required to take three of the five available items daily, but one must be a fruit or vegetable and those are to be the largest components of students’ lunches.
“We’ve literally doubled the amount of fruit and vegetables going out the door,” said Suzy Ketelsen, food and nutrition manager for the Cedar Rapids Community School District.
What do you think of the updated school food guidelines?
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What do you think of updated school food guidelines?
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It’ll give some kid/kids experience in the real world dealing food out of their locker to supply the demand for food kids like.
““We’ve literally doubled the amount of fruit and vegetables going out the door.”
Question is, does that double the amount being thrown in the garbage?
And I’m not so sure 1% or skim milk is nutritionally the best choice for younger students. High schoolers and elementary schoolers have different nutritional needs. And its not the milk that’s making kids obese.
If they are giving the kids skim milk, they might as well just give em a glass of water. with a little food coloring in it.
one of the biggest misconceptions about skim milk is that it has less nutritional value than whole milk or two pecent. the fact is that the only thing lacking in skim milk is milk fat (cream) and thus calories. all the vitamins calcium etc are there. to those who grew up on whole milk it certainly does taste different. as to whether or not the lack of milk fat is a big deal in re obesity: i grew up on skim milk (can’t stand the taste of whole milk) and the only time i wasn’t fat as a kid was during wrestling season in high school.
And the fat is what younger kids need. Some fat is a nutritional requirement, and milk is the best place to get it. Too many kids are placed on “low fat” diets (especially the obese), but its often not the fat in the diet that’s the problem. Its the sugared drinks and other junk food.