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Keith Reid has been a Record reporter since 2005. He currently covers the Lodi Unified School District and Manteca Unified School District. He also covers the San Joaquin County Real Estate scene. Read FullCategories
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Healthier meals coming to a school cafeteria near you?
First Lady Michelle Obama is working with federal health officials to roll out a modernized version of the Child Nutrition Act, which will aim its arrows at improving food choices in school cafeterias.
Read the San Francisco Chronicle’s story here.
This is not an overly surprising development. Schools have began to face scrutiny regarding lunch menus as Type 2 Diabetes rates continue to rise among the nation’s youth.
In 2007, I spent two weeks eating lunch in Lodi Unified cafeterias. Read my story here. Since then, Lodi Unified has introduced salad bars, and limited chocolate milk offerings. I’m told though, that chocolate milk is again on the daily menu.