Kindergarten teacher begs parents to stop sending this 1 snack to school
For the sake of her sanity — and the classroom carpet — elementary teacher Amy McMahon is begging parents to stop sending ...
School salad bars raise fruit intake among kids and benefit economically diverse schools, VCU researchers find
School salad bars boost how much fruit kids eat but don’t drive up vegetable intake, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at ...
Law to ‘change the face of school lunches’
A federal law aiming to make sure kids have enough to eat at school as well as have healthy food options is set to take effect July 1. The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act requires schools to focus on ...
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Salad bars in schools increase fruit intake without affecting vegetable consumption
and around one-third of a cup more than students in control schools, who were served fruit and vegetables in a typical lunch line throughout the study. Vegetable consumption—approximately one ...