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Friday, September 28, 2012

Students Complain Of Hunger Under New USDA School Lunch Guidelines

ABC World News (9/26, story 5, 2:20, Sawyer) reported that a number of students across the country are complaining of still being hungry after eating school lunches prepared under USDA's new nutritional guidelines, which "restrict elementary schoolers to 650 calories, 700 for middle schoolers and 850 for high schoolers. ... The USDA says the new menus are working in some schools and the rules are long overdue." ABC shows Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack saying, "This is about really about our children and the health of our children and making sure we do a good job providing fruits and vegetables and low fat dairy and whole grains. Why? Because a third of our youngsters are obese or at risk of being obese."

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