New Nutrition Standards For Schools To Halt Rising Child Obesity
July 9th, 2007Schools have been allowed to offer children more or less whatever food they have wished to for many years now without any regulation and it is believed that this explains, at least in part, why we have seen such a dramatic increase in the number of overweight and obese children over the past few years.
Now however thanks to a new report, requested by Congress and published by the Institute of Medicine and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, schools will be required to meet a set of nutritional guidelines for the food which they provide in their cafeterias, snack bars and vending machines and, hopefully, this will put a stop to the prevalence of junk food and help to reduce the number of overweight children.
Details of the report which will hopefully help to lower the obesity rate in children can be found in our latest article.