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Keep School Lunches Healthy

Posted by Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education and Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services in Food and Nutrition
Mar 24, 2015

Every parent has dreams for their child. We want them to grow up strong and healthy. We tell them to dream big and work hard so that they can be anything they want to be. We want them to take the world by storm.

As parents, we lay the foundation for our children's future success, but we know that we can't do it alone. We rely on people like pediatricians, other health care providers, teachers and other school professionals to act as our proxies. We entrust them with the task of helping our kids grow up smart, strong and healthy because, as parents, we believe that they will make decisions in our children's best interests. And that applies to what our children eat when they are away from home, especially at school.

The updated school meals standards introduced across the country in 2012 are undoubtedly improving the quality of school meals as well as the health and well-being of our children.

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Category/Topic: Food and Nutrition