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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make significant changes to the school lunch program for the first time in over 30 years. [4] In addition to funding standard child nutrition and school lunch programs, there are several new nutritional standards in the bill. The main aspects are listed below. [1]
Michelle Obama lends her support to an ambitious school-lunch bill that provides an additional $4.5 billion in spending, but imposes new standards on all food sold in public schools. The legislation also includes the Community Eligibility Program (CEP), which helps low-income schools feed all their students for free.
The support for RFK Jr’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement comes after Trump’s first administration when he tried to roll back some of the school nutritional standards set in the Obama era
Former first lady Michelle Obama criticized the Trump administration’s on Friday for its decision to roll back measures ensuring healthier school lunches.
The school lunch adjustments garnered a fair amount of negative feedback during the Obama years, with the sarcastic #ThanksMichelleObama hashtag often accompanying photos of unappetizing lunches ...
The Trump Administration has eased certain policies to make American school lunches healthier. Some health advocates perceive the move as a significant change on lunch policies of former President Barack Obama. [17] There are fewer whole grains, more sugary chocolate milk, and an additional 300 milligrams of salt.
On the same date, Obama signed a presidential memorandum creating the Task Force on Childhood Obesity to review current programs and develop a national action plan. The Task Force reviews policy and programs related to child nutrition and physical activity. It hopes to create change through a national action plan with five goals:
Whatever you ate at the school cafeteria, your parents and grandparents got something very different. See how school lunches have changed since the 1900s.