Our view: Healthier lunches for students
The habits we learn in childhood and adolescence – good or bad – can stay with us a lifetime, or be terribly hard to kick later in life.
That’s why the recent changes to school lunch programs around the country are a good step toward combating the national – and statewide – epidemic of childhood obesity.
Today, roughly one in three Americans between the ages of 2 and 19 is considered either overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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