Elementary school students seem to be satisfied with the healthier school lunches being offered to them, according to a new study of school officials.
New meal standards -- issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- went into effect in the fall of 2012. At the time, there was concern that kids would stop buying lunch, or throw away most of their food. But the new study of nearly 600 elementary schools suggests that this isn't the case.
"The updated meals standards are resulting in healthier meals for tens of millions of kids," Lindsey Turner, of Boise State University and a co-investigator for Bridging the Gap, a research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said in a university news release.
[For more of this story, written by Mary Elizabeth Dallas, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/education-news-745/students-are-satisfied-with-healthier-school-lunches-690024.html]
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