Clamping Down on Junk Food
Students in Rochester will have a tough time finding sugary treats or fatty snacks in their schools this fall.
The Rochester School Board is creating new guidelines for nutrition and physical activity in the schools — one that calls for student vending machines to be loaded only with milk, juice, water and diet soda.
It would also require that 80 percent of food in vending machines be healthy, low-calorie options.
Rochester isn’t the only school that’s going to have to make sure students get healthy choices. A federal law is requiring that all schools that participate in the federally subsidized school lunch program develop some kind of similar policy for the upcoming 2006-2007 school year. more…
