Offering young children a healthy school lunch doesn’t mean they’ll eat it.While nearly 7 out of 10 school kids put a vegetable on their lunch trays, only about half of them took even one bite ...

Critics of the updated National School Lunch Program say yes, and they have lots of anecdotal evidence to back up their claim. Photographs and videos of kids dumping their veggies in the trash and ...

Back in the Paleozoic Era, when we were kids, nobody wore seat belts or bike helmets. To do our homework, we used quaint technologies: "card catalogs," "encyclopedias" and "Wite-Out." To chat with ...

New school lunch nutrition requirements will backfire. Kids won't eat what they don't like. More students – many of whom rely on school meals as their main or only source of nutrition and ...

Feeding 30 million schoolchildren is a difficult task. As a result, many of today's school cafeterias offerings end up as appealing as a tray of lukewarm airplane food. And if there's one point of ...

On the Living Well page on Facebook, parents were asked about the healthy choices they make when it came to their child’s lunch. While one mom said “leftovers,” others offered the following: ...

Schoolchildren aren’t exactly gobbling up the healthy lunches they were meant to eat under a national nutrition program, two new studies suggest. Students purchasing school lunch only select a ...

Why Kraft Heinz Pulled Lunchables from Schools. Food and beverage giant Kraft Heinz, announced Tuesday that it would remove Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides ...

"We want healthy kids, not healthy trash cans," Carmichael said. Established in 2015, Louisiana Fit Kids began as a website used to train and educate school nutrition program employees about new ...

Critics claimed that new federal school lunch fruit and vegetable requirements would be a waste of money and produce. But in a recent study, Harvard School of Public Health researchers have proven ...