In 2010, United States lawmakers passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which aimed to tackle both childhood obesity and hunger by making school meals more nutritious. Two years later, the ...

Whole milk is poised to return to the menu for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program for the first time ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday, Dec. 13, that seeks to bring back whole milk to school lunches across the country. The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023 passed ...

WASHINGTON — More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back. Federal lawmakers ...

For the first time, US schools could soon offer plant-based milk to students—no doctor’s note required. Children in school lunch lines across the US may soon have more access to plant-based milk than ...

Half pint cartons of milk are processed on Sept. 28, 2015, at Crystal Creamery in Modesto. Joan Barnett Lee [email protected] Milk is an integral part of school lunches. If you’re building a tray in a ...

Milk cartons generally aren’t accepted by recycling centers in Snohomish County. Dispensers could be a solution. And they save milk too. DARRINGTON — Students were more excited than usual to form ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Internal records show Jefferson County Public Schools knew about spoiled milk being served to students nearly a week before families were told — and at first, the district ...

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