New “Smart Snacks in Schools” plan works to eliminate junk food in schools
[caption id="attachment_333" align="alignleft" width="500"]A healthy lunch option students should be eating. (Photo by Melissa from Flickr Creative Commons)[/caption] The meals and snacks offered to students in schools is an issue that has been changing and improving for decades.
Most recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a new plan to eliminate junk food sold in schools.
This new plan proposed on Feb. 1, titled “Smart Snacks in Schools,” is a part of the government’s efforts to reduce childhood obesity under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA).
Author, educator, and nutrition coach Dayle Hayes has an overall positive felling about this new plan, but hopes that it doesn’t force people to focus only on the issue of childhood obesity, rather help them to focus on making all children healthy.