The Trump administration on Friday took another step toward dismantling Michelle Obama’s school nutrition guidelines, proposing a new rule that could lead to more pizza and fries and less fruit and a smaller variety of vegetables on school menus.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who announced the rule changes on Obama’s birthday, said they were needed to give schools more flexibility and reduce waste while still providing nutritious and appetizing meals.
«What a shameless, embarrassing capitulation to lobbyists at the expense of American children and their well being,» said Sam Kass, who served as executive director of Obama’s «Let’s Move» campaign to combat child obesity. «This country and its kids deserve so much better. »
Under the proposal, schools would be allowed to cut the amount of certain coque samsung galaxy a3 personnalisée types of vegetables served at lunch, and legumes offered as a meat alternative also could be zokko coque samsung j3 2017 counted as part of the vegetable requirement. Potatoes could be served as a vegetable.
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Gay Anderson, president coque samsung s6 edge fantaisie of the School Nutrition Assn., said that while the nutrition standards had been a success overall, some requirements led to reduced participation in the program, higher costs and waste.
«USDA’s school meal flexibilities are helping us manage these challenges and prepare nutritious meals that appeal to diverse student coque rouge iphone 6 s tastes,» Anderson said in a statement.
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«The Trump administration’s assault on children’s health continues today under the guise of ‘simplifying’ school meals,» Colin Schwartz, the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s deputy director for legislative affairs, said in a statement.
The proposal would give schools greater flexibility in auchan coque samsung a3 2016 offering entrees for a la carte purchases, which Schwartz said would «create a huge loophole in school nutrition guidelines, paving the way for coque samsung a3 2017 personnalisée children to coque samsung s7 ecran de veille choose pizza, burgers, French fries, and other foods high in calories, saturated fat coque samsung galaxy s6 happy or sodium in place of balanced school meals every day.»
Geraldine Henchy, director of nutrition policy at the Food Research Action Center, said the bottom line should coque samsung galaxy a3 sfr coque iphone 6 the flash be nutrition, but the revisions to the a la carte rule would result in students getting «a lot more fats, a lot more sodium, a lot more calories.»
Specifically, the proposal would reduce the amount of red and orange vegetables that would have to be offered every day at lunch.
For breakfasts taken to go, fruit servings could be reduced from a cup to half a cup.
Rep. Bobby Scott, a Virginia Democrat coque iphone 6 couleur matte and chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said the proposal «threatens the progress we’ve made toward improving nutrition in schools.»
«For many children, the food they eat at school is their only access to healthy, nutritious meals,» he said.
The American Heart Assn. said the rule would «put children’s health at coque samsung galaxy grand prime classe risk.»
«Healthy coque samsung galaxy s4 fille school meals help combat childhood obesity and poor cardiovascular health, but they also help establish a foundation for a lifetime of healthy behaviors,» the group said.
As first lady, Obama coque samsung gts7390g championed healthier school meals as part of the «Let’s Move» campaign.
«With 1 in 3 of our kids on track to have diabetes, it’s unconscionable that the Trump administration would do the bidding of the potato and junk food industries,» Kass said.
The 2010 Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act set nutrition standards for school meals, requiring schools to offer fruits and vegetables and more whole grain foods and to limit calories, fat and sodium.
The proposed rule is the second move by the Trump administration to scale back the school lunch program’s nutrition standards. Under a 2018 rule, the administration reduced the whole grains that had to be served coque samsung j3 amg and allowed low fat chocolate milk. Before the rule change, only coque iphone 6 silicone stich 3d fat coque samsung grand prime alice au pays des merveilles free flavored milk was permitted.
Perdue announced the proposed changes in San Antonio.
«Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too coque samsung neo grand much food waste and that more coque iphone 6 rose silicone apple common sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals,» he said…
