Blog Author
Keith Reid
Keith Reid has been a Record reporter since 2005. He currently covers Lodi, including city government, schools, and other community news. Contact him at (209) 546-8257 or kreid@recordnet.com. Read FullCategories
Archives
We reserve the right to remove any content at any time from this Community, including without limitation if it violates the Community Rules. We ask that you report content that you in good faith believe violates the above rules by clicking the Flag link next to the offending comment.
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.