Trump Relaxes National Obama-Era Lunch Guidelines
Refined grains and chocolate milk are back on the menu.
By Megan Trimble, Digital News Editor Dec. 7, 2018, at 4:20 p.m.
The Trump administration has officially rolled back Obama-era lunch guidelines that promoted heightened nutrition standards for the national school lunch program.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, was one of former first lady Michelle Obama's biggest legacies. The increased nutrition standards for school lunches were meant to make schools healthier and played a prominent role in the first lady's Let's Move campaign.
Under the guidelines, schools were required to offer students fruits and vegetables every day, to increase their offerings of whole grain foods, to offer only fat-free or low-fat milk, to limit calories based on the age of children, to reduce the amount of saturated fat, trans fats and sodium offered in food. Now, schools will once again be able to offer foods made mostly of refined grains, such as noodles or biscuits.
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