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Meanwhile, the risk of obesity doubled among students who skipped breakfast or ate it inconsistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems it's a bigger problem to have kids skipping breakfast than to have these kids eating two breakfasts,\" says Marlene Schwartz of the \u003ca href=\"http://chip.uconn.edu/person/marlene-schwartz/\" target=\"_blank\">Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity\u003c/a> and one of the study's authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This study ... debunks an important misconception that school breakfast contributes to childhood obesity,\" says Duke Storen from \u003ca href=\"http://https/www.nokidhungry.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">Share Our Strength\u003c/a>, a national group that runs anti-hunger and nutrition programs for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While direct opposition to free school breakfast is unusual, says Storen, officials sometimes balk at implementing \"alternative breakfast models\" designed to encourage use of the program — such as offering breakfast in grab-and-go bags or in classrooms, rather than traditional sit-down meals in a cafeteria. That's a concern, say hunger advocates, because while eligibility rules for free and reduced-price breakfast are the same as for lunch, only about \u003ca href=\"http://frac.org/pdf/School_Breakfast_Scorecard_SY_2014_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">half as many children get subsidized breakfast as receive lunch\u003c/a>, according to the Food Research and Action Center, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the study was inspired in part by real-world concerns that school breakfast programs might promote obesity, says Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the administration of New York City's then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/with-classroom-breakfasts-some-children-may-eat-twice.html\" target=\"_blank\">opposed\u003c/a> offering breakfast in classrooms instead of school cafeterias, arguing that the change would exacerbate childhood obesity. 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And, of course, just the fact that growing adolescents often need a lot of food to grow means that they can eat more without necessarily gaining weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also draws a direct line between school breakfast and fighting childhood hunger, underscoring the idea that malnourishment and obesity in the U.S. are not so much opposites as two sides of the same coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The latest figures show that 15 million children live in food insecure households,\" says Heather Hardline-Grafton, a senior researcher at FRAC. \"While obesity is a serious problem for many children in the United States, so, too, is food insecurity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tracie McMillan is the author of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanwayofeating.com/\">The American Way of Eating\u003c/a>,\u003cem> a \u003c/em>New York Times \u003cem>best-seller, and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. You can follow her on Twitter @tmmcmillan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=2+Breakfasts+May+Be+Better+Than+None+For+School+Kids&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A study looked at students who ate breakfast at school versus those who ate at home, at both places, or not at all. One of these groups had a higher risk of obesity, and it's not the one you'd think.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1458324934,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":572},"headData":{"title":"2 Breakfasts May Be Better Than None For School Kids | KQED","description":"A study looked at students who ate breakfast at school versus those who ate at home, at both places, or not at all. One of these groups had a higher risk of obesity, and it's not the one you'd think.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"161543 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=161543","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/19/2-breakfasts-may-be-better-than-none-for-school-kids/","disqusTitle":"2 Breakfasts May Be Better Than None For School Kids","nprImageCredit":"Whitney Hayward","nprByline":"Tracie McMillan\u003cbr />NPR","nprImageAgency":"Portland Press Herald via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"470832131","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=470832131&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/17/470832131/two-breakfasts-may-be-better-than-none-for-school-kids?ft=nprml&f=470832131","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:07:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:11:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:07:33 -0400","path":"/stateofhealth/161543/2-breakfasts-may-be-better-than-none-for-school-kids","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When it comes to school breakfasts, two is better than none, says a new report released Thursday in the journal \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijpo.v11.2/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Pediatric Obesity\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers tracked nearly 600 middle-school students from fifth to seventh grade, looking to see if students ate no breakfast; ate breakfast at home or school; or ate both — and whether that affected obesity rates. The result: Weight gain among students who ate \"double-breakfast\" was no different than that seen among all other students. Meanwhile, the risk of obesity doubled among students who skipped breakfast or ate it inconsistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems it's a bigger problem to have kids skipping breakfast than to have these kids eating two breakfasts,\" says Marlene Schwartz of the \u003ca href=\"http://chip.uconn.edu/person/marlene-schwartz/\" target=\"_blank\">Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity\u003c/a> and one of the study's authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This study ... debunks an important misconception that school breakfast contributes to childhood obesity,\" says Duke Storen from \u003ca href=\"http://https/www.nokidhungry.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">Share Our Strength\u003c/a>, a national group that runs anti-hunger and nutrition programs for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While direct opposition to free school breakfast is unusual, says Storen, officials sometimes balk at implementing \"alternative breakfast models\" designed to encourage use of the program — such as offering breakfast in grab-and-go bags or in classrooms, rather than traditional sit-down meals in a cafeteria. That's a concern, say hunger advocates, because while eligibility rules for free and reduced-price breakfast are the same as for lunch, only about \u003ca href=\"http://frac.org/pdf/School_Breakfast_Scorecard_SY_2014_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">half as many children get subsidized breakfast as receive lunch\u003c/a>, according to the Food Research and Action Center, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the study was inspired in part by real-world concerns that school breakfast programs might promote obesity, says Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the administration of New York City's then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/nyregion/with-classroom-breakfasts-some-children-may-eat-twice.html\" target=\"_blank\">opposed\u003c/a> offering breakfast in classrooms instead of school cafeterias, arguing that the change would exacerbate childhood obesity. A year later, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23947326\" target=\"_blank\">American Journal of Public Health study\u003c/a> showed that, on average, kids eating two breakfasts in New York City schools consumed 95 more calories daily than did those eating one breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers of the new study didn't examine why eating double breakfasts did not affect obesity, but skipping the meal did. But Schwartz has a few hypotheses. First, school breakfast is fairly healthful; \"they weren't eating doughnuts or Denny's Grand Slam,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, kids who skip breakfast — a habit that doubled in frequency between grades 5 and 7, according to the study — are likely to overeat later in the day. And, of course, just the fact that growing adolescents often need a lot of food to grow means that they can eat more without necessarily gaining weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also draws a direct line between school breakfast and fighting childhood hunger, underscoring the idea that malnourishment and obesity in the U.S. are not so much opposites as two sides of the same coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The latest figures show that 15 million children live in food insecure households,\" says Heather Hardline-Grafton, a senior researcher at FRAC. \"While obesity is a serious problem for many children in the United States, so, too, is food insecurity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tracie McMillan is the author of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanwayofeating.com/\">The American Way of Eating\u003c/a>,\u003cem> a \u003c/em>New York Times \u003cem>best-seller, and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. You can follow her on Twitter @tmmcmillan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=2+Breakfasts+May+Be+Better+Than+None+For+School+Kids&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/161543/2-breakfasts-may-be-better-than-none-for-school-kids","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_161543"],"categories":["stateofhealth_12","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_2520","stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_299"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_161544","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_22977":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_22977","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"22977","score":null,"sort":[1418749020000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-new-federal-rules-california-likely-to-stay-with-healthy-school-lunches","title":"Despite New Federal Rules, California Likely to Stay with Healthy School Lunches","publishDate":1418749020,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/Students-salad-and-fruit-bar-school-lunch-e1418748611443.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22980\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/Students-salad-and-fruit-bar-school-lunch-640x482.jpg\" alt=\"Elementary students at a northern California school at the fruit and salad bar. (Jane Meredith Adams/EdSource)\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elementary students at a northern California school at the fruit and salad bar. (Jane Meredith Adams/EdSource)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jane Meredith Adams,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://edsource.org/2014/state-likely-to-support-existing-lunch-standards/71373#.VJBfvL4-DL8\" href=\"http://edsource.org/2014/state-likely-to-support-existing-lunch-standards/71373#.VJBfvL4-DL8\" target=\"_blank\">EdSource\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s enthusiasm for healthy school lunches appears unlikely to change under a Congressional budget bill headed to President Barack Obama for signature that would allow states to weaken new federal school nutrition requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes to the regulations for the \u003ca title=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\" href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 \u003c/a>– part of a $1.1 trillion budget agreement passed on Saturday – are the latest in a heated conflict over the new \u003ca title=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf\" href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National School Lunch Program\u003c/a> menus, which call for increased servings of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and reductions in fats and sodium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would exempt some schools from the requirement that they serve only breads and pastas that are “whole grain rich,” meaning they are at least 50 percent whole grain. To receive an exemption, schools must show evidence of “hardship, including financial hardship” in obtaining 50 percent whole grain foods that are “acceptable to students.” The bill also would keep sodium restrictions at current levels until “the latest scientific research establishes the reduction is beneficial for children.” The language referring to the exemptions begins on \u003ca title=\"http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141208/CPRT-113-HPRT-RU00-HR83sa.pdf\" href=\"http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141208/CPRT-113-HPRT-RU00-HR83sa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">page 99 of the lengthy spending bill\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the proposed bill allows, but does not require, states to grant exemptions, the bill “leaves the power to the state agency to define what is a hardship,” said Tracey Patterson, nutrition policy advocate for California Food Policy Advocates, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization. The California Department of Education, which administers the National School Lunch Program, has been “very supportive” of improving school nutrition and is unlikely to easily grant exemptions, Patterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, many of our schools have found successful ways to implement whole grain rich pasta requirements,” said Kim Frinzell, nutrition education administrator in the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a long history of support for school nutrition and often has imposed nutritional guidelines ahead of the federal government, including the state’s 2009 ban on school lunch foods that contain trans fats, which have been linked to heart disease, and state regulations limiting sugary beverages and salty snacks sold in vending machines at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson stated his support for the standards \u003ca title=\"http://cfpa.net/ChildNutrition/ChildNutrition_Federal/CDE-NSD-HHFKA%20Letter%20of%20Support-5.22.14.pdf\" href=\"http://cfpa.net/ChildNutrition/ChildNutrition_Federal/CDE-NSD-HHFKA%20Letter%20of%20Support-5.22.14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter in May\u003c/a>. “It is imperative to keep improving the nutrition standards so that we can continue to make a difference [to] our children’s health,” Torlakson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, 95 percent of school lunch programs in the state are meeting the whole grain rich standards and have been certified as in compliance with the menu standards. The National School Lunch Program provides free or reduced-price meals to students from low-income families; the meals are also available to students from higher-income families at full cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, many of our schools have found successful ways to implement whole grain rich pasta requirements,” said Kim Frinzell, nutrition education administrator in the Nutrition Services Division of the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the introduction of the phased-in standards in 2012, the department has provided technical assistance to districts struggling to provide cost-effective menus, including face-to-face workshops, webinars and culinary training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department wouldn’t speculate about whether it would grant exemptions to schools to opt out of using whole grain rich breads and pastas if the bill passed. “We will wait until the USDA gives us guidance” on implementing the exemptions, said Julie Boarer-Pitchford, nutrition education consultant of the Nutrition Services Division of the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope would be those [training] options would get thoroughly explored before the exemption option,” said Gail Woodward-Lopez, associate director of the Atkins Center for Weight and Health at UC Berkeley. “California is generally very supportive and we have a lot of innovative food service directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time that whole grain rich foods have been a source of conflict in the new lunch standards. In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it had received complaints that whole grain rich pasta wasn’t holding together well during cooking, and \u003ca title=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/SP47-2014os.pdf\" href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/SP47-2014os.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a “flexibility” memorandum\u003c/a> allowing states to grant schools a two-year reprieve on serving whole grain rich pasta, while schools and manufacturers figure out acceptable pasta products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is still formulating its process under which schools could apply for a reprieve, said Frinzell at the California Department of Education. But the whole wheat rich pasta rule went into effect July 1 and “since July 1, schools this school year are already implementing this requirement,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Nutrition Association, a Maryland-based national organization of school nutrition professionals, has pressed for rollbacks on the standards, citing \u003ca title=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660427.pdf\" href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660427.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a federal Government Accountability Office report\u003c/a> that found national participation in the school lunch program had dropped by 1.2 million students from 2010 to 2013. The decrease was primarily caused by a decline of 1.6 million students eating school lunch who pay full price, the report said, noting that the number of students eating school meals at free or reduced cost increased. The nutrition association said that the drop in student participation had made it difficult for some districts to meet the costs of providing more fruits, vegetables and palatable menu options using whole grain rich breads and pastas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The escalating costs of meeting overly prescriptive regulations are putting school meal programs in financial jeopardy,” said Patricia Montague, chief executive officer of the association, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But food policy advocates say that the drop in school lunch consumption is tied in part to a recent increase in the cost of the lunches for the students who pay full price. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2013 required schools to achieve “paid lunch equity” to ensure that districts weren’t using federal funds to subsidize the full-rate meals. As a result, full-pay lunch prices increased and, in some cases, doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, there have also been concerns about school districts’ financial management of federal and state school lunch funds. Recent state reports found that some districts have diverted lunch funds for other purposes or kept excessive cash reserves. The California Department of Education has\u003ca title=\"http://edsource.org/2014/school-lunch-programs-ordered-to-spend-more/69861#.VItjHyfWro0\" href=\"http://edsource.org/2014/school-lunch-programs-ordered-to-spend-more/69861#.VItjHyfWro0\" target=\"_blank\"> ordered 68 districts to spend millions of dollars\u003c/a> in federal and state school lunch funds that they have failed for years to use for student meals.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The healthier student lunches are unpopular in some parts of the country, but not California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418801935,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1104},"headData":{"title":"Despite New Federal Rules, California Likely to Stay with Healthy School Lunches | KQED","description":"The healthier student lunches are unpopular in some parts of the country, but not California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"22977 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=22977","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/12/16/despite-new-federal-rules-california-likely-to-stay-with-healthy-school-lunches/","disqusTitle":"Despite New Federal Rules, California Likely to Stay with Healthy School Lunches","path":"/stateofhealth/22977/despite-new-federal-rules-california-likely-to-stay-with-healthy-school-lunches","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/Students-salad-and-fruit-bar-school-lunch-e1418748611443.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22980\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/12/Students-salad-and-fruit-bar-school-lunch-640x482.jpg\" alt=\"Elementary students at a northern California school at the fruit and salad bar. (Jane Meredith Adams/EdSource)\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elementary students at a northern California school at the fruit and salad bar. (Jane Meredith Adams/EdSource)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jane Meredith Adams,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://edsource.org/2014/state-likely-to-support-existing-lunch-standards/71373#.VJBfvL4-DL8\" href=\"http://edsource.org/2014/state-likely-to-support-existing-lunch-standards/71373#.VJBfvL4-DL8\" target=\"_blank\">EdSource\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s enthusiasm for healthy school lunches appears unlikely to change under a Congressional budget bill headed to President Barack Obama for signature that would allow states to weaken new federal school nutrition requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes to the regulations for the \u003ca title=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\" href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 \u003c/a>– part of a $1.1 trillion budget agreement passed on Saturday – are the latest in a heated conflict over the new \u003ca title=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf\" href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National School Lunch Program\u003c/a> menus, which call for increased servings of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and reductions in fats and sodium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would exempt some schools from the requirement that they serve only breads and pastas that are “whole grain rich,” meaning they are at least 50 percent whole grain. To receive an exemption, schools must show evidence of “hardship, including financial hardship” in obtaining 50 percent whole grain foods that are “acceptable to students.” The bill also would keep sodium restrictions at current levels until “the latest scientific research establishes the reduction is beneficial for children.” The language referring to the exemptions begins on \u003ca title=\"http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141208/CPRT-113-HPRT-RU00-HR83sa.pdf\" href=\"http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141208/CPRT-113-HPRT-RU00-HR83sa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">page 99 of the lengthy spending bill\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the proposed bill allows, but does not require, states to grant exemptions, the bill “leaves the power to the state agency to define what is a hardship,” said Tracey Patterson, nutrition policy advocate for California Food Policy Advocates, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization. The California Department of Education, which administers the National School Lunch Program, has been “very supportive” of improving school nutrition and is unlikely to easily grant exemptions, Patterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, many of our schools have found successful ways to implement whole grain rich pasta requirements,” said Kim Frinzell, nutrition education administrator in the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a long history of support for school nutrition and often has imposed nutritional guidelines ahead of the federal government, including the state’s 2009 ban on school lunch foods that contain trans fats, which have been linked to heart disease, and state regulations limiting sugary beverages and salty snacks sold in vending machines at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson stated his support for the standards \u003ca title=\"http://cfpa.net/ChildNutrition/ChildNutrition_Federal/CDE-NSD-HHFKA%20Letter%20of%20Support-5.22.14.pdf\" href=\"http://cfpa.net/ChildNutrition/ChildNutrition_Federal/CDE-NSD-HHFKA%20Letter%20of%20Support-5.22.14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter in May\u003c/a>. “It is imperative to keep improving the nutrition standards so that we can continue to make a difference [to] our children’s health,” Torlakson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, 95 percent of school lunch programs in the state are meeting the whole grain rich standards and have been certified as in compliance with the menu standards. The National School Lunch Program provides free or reduced-price meals to students from low-income families; the meals are also available to students from higher-income families at full cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, many of our schools have found successful ways to implement whole grain rich pasta requirements,” said Kim Frinzell, nutrition education administrator in the Nutrition Services Division of the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the introduction of the phased-in standards in 2012, the department has provided technical assistance to districts struggling to provide cost-effective menus, including face-to-face workshops, webinars and culinary training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department wouldn’t speculate about whether it would grant exemptions to schools to opt out of using whole grain rich breads and pastas if the bill passed. “We will wait until the USDA gives us guidance” on implementing the exemptions, said Julie Boarer-Pitchford, nutrition education consultant of the Nutrition Services Division of the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope would be those [training] options would get thoroughly explored before the exemption option,” said Gail Woodward-Lopez, associate director of the Atkins Center for Weight and Health at UC Berkeley. “California is generally very supportive and we have a lot of innovative food service directors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time that whole grain rich foods have been a source of conflict in the new lunch standards. In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it had received complaints that whole grain rich pasta wasn’t holding together well during cooking, and \u003ca title=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/SP47-2014os.pdf\" href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/SP47-2014os.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a “flexibility” memorandum\u003c/a> allowing states to grant schools a two-year reprieve on serving whole grain rich pasta, while schools and manufacturers figure out acceptable pasta products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is still formulating its process under which schools could apply for a reprieve, said Frinzell at the California Department of Education. But the whole wheat rich pasta rule went into effect July 1 and “since July 1, schools this school year are already implementing this requirement,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The School Nutrition Association, a Maryland-based national organization of school nutrition professionals, has pressed for rollbacks on the standards, citing \u003ca title=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660427.pdf\" href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660427.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a federal Government Accountability Office report\u003c/a> that found national participation in the school lunch program had dropped by 1.2 million students from 2010 to 2013. The decrease was primarily caused by a decline of 1.6 million students eating school lunch who pay full price, the report said, noting that the number of students eating school meals at free or reduced cost increased. The nutrition association said that the drop in student participation had made it difficult for some districts to meet the costs of providing more fruits, vegetables and palatable menu options using whole grain rich breads and pastas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The escalating costs of meeting overly prescriptive regulations are putting school meal programs in financial jeopardy,” said Patricia Montague, chief executive officer of the association, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But food policy advocates say that the drop in school lunch consumption is tied in part to a recent increase in the cost of the lunches for the students who pay full price. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2013 required schools to achieve “paid lunch equity” to ensure that districts weren’t using federal funds to subsidize the full-rate meals. As a result, full-pay lunch prices increased and, in some cases, doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, there have also been concerns about school districts’ financial management of federal and state school lunch funds. Recent state reports found that some districts have diverted lunch funds for other purposes or kept excessive cash reserves. The California Department of Education has\u003ca title=\"http://edsource.org/2014/school-lunch-programs-ordered-to-spend-more/69861#.VItjHyfWro0\" href=\"http://edsource.org/2014/school-lunch-programs-ordered-to-spend-more/69861#.VItjHyfWro0\" target=\"_blank\"> ordered 68 districts to spend millions of dollars\u003c/a> in federal and state school lunch funds that they have failed for years to use for student meals.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/22977/despite-new-federal-rules-california-likely-to-stay-with-healthy-school-lunches","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_299"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_22980","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_22684":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_22684","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"22684","score":null,"sort":[1417033036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"statewide-program-delights-schoolkids-with-california-grown-produce","title":"Statewide Program Delights Schoolkids with California-Grown Produce","publishDate":1417033036,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/11/IMG_0041-e1416872543810.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-22687 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/11/IMG_0041-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(David Gorn/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California-grown persimmons and pears on the lunch line in Elk Grove. (David Gorn/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By David Gorn\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Elk Grove Elementary School, just outside Sacramento, it's lunchtime and kids are doing what kids do when they're let loose from the classroom: running around, laughing and generally having fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Tying farm to school so children understand the connection.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But this day at Elk Grove has a little extra charge to it. It's \"California Thursday,\" a program that brings locally-grown food into school lunch rooms. And more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on the playground, there's a lottery wheel going. Someone is running around in a carrot suit. Volunteer Katie O'Malley, a student from UC Davis, mans the almond-butter booth: whole almonds go in the top and come out below in a thick paste -- sending 9-year-olds into fits of giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's the point, O'Malley said, making food fun.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were a few kids that really liked it,\" O'Malley said, \"and I saw them go and get their friends and bring their friends back and say, 'You need to try this, this is so good.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, like everything in school, even fun has a message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are offering a festival for 'California Thursdays' to tie farm to school, into the lunchroom, so (students) learn the connection,\" said Michelle Drake, director of food and nutrition for Elk Grove Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This district is the fifth-largest district in the state of California, and we feed about 35,000 kids a day,\" Drake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today in the cafeteria, all those kids are getting whole wheat penne pasta with chorizo and kale. All the food is from local farms, Drake says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got persimmons on the lunch line today,\" she said. \"How many kids have ever had a local persimmon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the \"California Thursdays\" program serves lunch for nearly 1 million schoolchildren in the state. That's about 1,700 schools in 15 districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Brown is creative director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, a nonprofit based in Berkeley working with schools on sustainability. While the districts pay for the food, she says, Ecoliteracy keeps cost down by doing all the legwork including contacting farmers and setting up the kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said their first test school district was in Oakland -- and what they found there was typical of many school cafeterias across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They weren't even doing freshly prepared food then,\" Brown said. \"They were mostly just doing heat and serve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So workers from Ecoliteracy had to set up the kitchens, pretty much from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me, one of the things I find the most remarkable,\" Brown said, \"is that they didn't have measuring cups. They serve 7 million meals a year in Oakland Unified, and they didn't have any measuring cups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing the habits of our cafeterias and the diets of our children is crucial, Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One-third of the kids in America are overweight or obese,\" she said. \"A lot of children get 35 percent of their calories every day at school. Some kids get more than half. So it's very important that those meals be as healthy as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Elk Grove cafeteria, food director Michelle Drake is bracing for the next wave of kids, making sure there's enough tomatoes, strawberries, pomegranates and carrots on the fruit and vegetable cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought it was cool we put color rainbow cauliflower -- so we have purple, green and yellow cauliflower,\" Drake said. \"Kids love it just because it's colorful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fifth-grader named Audrey checked out the bright orange persimmons. She grabbed one from the pile and took a nibble, then a bite and seemed to decide it was okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I liked it. It was really good,\" Audrey said. \"It was sweet. It was kind of like a light peach, like a really light peach flavor. But it's really good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, of course, brings joy to the ears of project organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's how health can start: One child, liking one persimmon. It's a microcosm of a shift in the taste buds and eating habits of a generation that doesn't know how to cook -- and snacks on Kit-Kats and corn chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing, though, said Audrey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It tastes better without the skin. It'd be easier if they had it without the skin when they give it to you,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, see? You get them to try other foods, bring those food ideas home to their families, that's great. But now you have a discerning eater on your hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that's the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>David Gorn is senior reporter for California Healthline.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In all, the \"California Thursdays\" program serves lunch for nearly 1 million California students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1417457955,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":792},"headData":{"title":"Statewide Program Delights Schoolkids with California-Grown Produce | KQED","description":"In all, the "California Thursdays" program serves lunch for nearly 1 million California students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"22684 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=22684","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/11/26/statewide-program-delights-schoolkids-with-california-grown-produce/","disqusTitle":"Statewide Program Delights Schoolkids with California-Grown Produce","path":"/stateofhealth/22684/statewide-program-delights-schoolkids-with-california-grown-produce","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/11/IMG_0041-e1416872543810.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-22687 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/11/IMG_0041-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(David Gorn/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California-grown persimmons and pears on the lunch line in Elk Grove. (David Gorn/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By David Gorn\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Elk Grove Elementary School, just outside Sacramento, it's lunchtime and kids are doing what kids do when they're let loose from the classroom: running around, laughing and generally having fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Tying farm to school so children understand the connection.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But this day at Elk Grove has a little extra charge to it. It's \"California Thursday,\" a program that brings locally-grown food into school lunch rooms. And more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on the playground, there's a lottery wheel going. Someone is running around in a carrot suit. Volunteer Katie O'Malley, a student from UC Davis, mans the almond-butter booth: whole almonds go in the top and come out below in a thick paste -- sending 9-year-olds into fits of giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's the point, O'Malley said, making food fun.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were a few kids that really liked it,\" O'Malley said, \"and I saw them go and get their friends and bring their friends back and say, 'You need to try this, this is so good.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, like everything in school, even fun has a message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are offering a festival for 'California Thursdays' to tie farm to school, into the lunchroom, so (students) learn the connection,\" said Michelle Drake, director of food and nutrition for Elk Grove Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This district is the fifth-largest district in the state of California, and we feed about 35,000 kids a day,\" Drake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today in the cafeteria, all those kids are getting whole wheat penne pasta with chorizo and kale. All the food is from local farms, Drake says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got persimmons on the lunch line today,\" she said. \"How many kids have ever had a local persimmon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the \"California Thursdays\" program serves lunch for nearly 1 million schoolchildren in the state. That's about 1,700 schools in 15 districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Brown is creative director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, a nonprofit based in Berkeley working with schools on sustainability. While the districts pay for the food, she says, Ecoliteracy keeps cost down by doing all the legwork including contacting farmers and setting up the kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said their first test school district was in Oakland -- and what they found there was typical of many school cafeterias across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They weren't even doing freshly prepared food then,\" Brown said. \"They were mostly just doing heat and serve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So workers from Ecoliteracy had to set up the kitchens, pretty much from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me, one of the things I find the most remarkable,\" Brown said, \"is that they didn't have measuring cups. They serve 7 million meals a year in Oakland Unified, and they didn't have any measuring cups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing the habits of our cafeterias and the diets of our children is crucial, Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One-third of the kids in America are overweight or obese,\" she said. \"A lot of children get 35 percent of their calories every day at school. Some kids get more than half. So it's very important that those meals be as healthy as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Elk Grove cafeteria, food director Michelle Drake is bracing for the next wave of kids, making sure there's enough tomatoes, strawberries, pomegranates and carrots on the fruit and vegetable cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought it was cool we put color rainbow cauliflower -- so we have purple, green and yellow cauliflower,\" Drake said. \"Kids love it just because it's colorful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fifth-grader named Audrey checked out the bright orange persimmons. She grabbed one from the pile and took a nibble, then a bite and seemed to decide it was okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I liked it. It was really good,\" Audrey said. \"It was sweet. It was kind of like a light peach, like a really light peach flavor. But it's really good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, of course, brings joy to the ears of project organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's how health can start: One child, liking one persimmon. It's a microcosm of a shift in the taste buds and eating habits of a generation that doesn't know how to cook -- and snacks on Kit-Kats and corn chips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing, though, said Audrey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It tastes better without the skin. It'd be easier if they had it without the skin when they give it to you,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, see? You get them to try other foods, bring those food ideas home to their families, that's great. But now you have a discerning eater on your hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that's the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>David Gorn is senior reporter for California Healthline.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/22684/statewide-program-delights-schoolkids-with-california-grown-produce","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_12","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_299"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_22687","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_19488":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_19488","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"19488","score":null,"sort":[1402524719000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake","title":"School Lunch Debate: What's At Stake?","publishDate":1402524719,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-15440\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122.jpg\" alt=\"While 90 percent of schools have made the transition to new school lunch standards, some schools insist that the standards are unworkable. (Photo: USDA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122-320x212.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While 90 percent of schools have made the transition to new school lunch standards, some schools insist that the standards are unworkable. (Photo: USDA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Allison Aubrey and Jessica Pupovac\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320882341/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School lunches have never been known for culinary excellence. But to be fair, the National School Lunch Program — which provides free or reduced lunches to about 31 million kids every day — has never aimed to dazzle as much as to fill little bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Congress gave the Federal School Lunch Program a nutrition make-over. New regulations called for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increasing the amount of whole grains served in school cafeterias\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shifting to fat free or low-fat milks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Limiting the amount of calories that can come from saturated fats to 10 percent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offering fruits and vegetables on a daily basis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Implementing caloric minimums and maximums for each meal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those were just the first steps. By the school year starting this fall, schools are also required to:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reduce the amount of sodium school cafeterias can serve to a maximum of 1,230 to 1,420 milligrams a day for lunch (depending on age group) and 540 to 640 milligrams a day for breakfast.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shift to 100 percent \"whole grain-rich\" products, which means that they are mostly whole grain.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the agriculture appropriations bill, which may come to a vote on Thursday, schools would also receive additional support for making the transition to a healthier menu, including provisions to help them purchase new equipment to prepare fresher foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"gJWHEusGINj4Z7JafteoUw4hYBsSxLZ4\"]Sam Kass, senior advisor for nutrition policy at the White House, says 90 percent of schools have already — or are in the process of — implementing the new standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, half of all products served in the school lunch program must be \"whole-grain rich,\" which USDA defines as products made of at least 50 percent whole grain. According to the new standards, by the start of the next school year, schools must use only products that are whole-grain rich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But GOP leaders, as well as the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food service directors and several companies that supply school cafeterias, say the upcoming requirements are unworkable. They claim that kids don't want the healthy options and, as a result, too much food is being wasted. They also say that the cost of reducing sodium and other preservatives are placing an undue burden on schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama Republican Congressman Robert Aderholt introduced a provision that would give school districts a year-long waiver from both old and new standards if they can show that they are losing money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">[\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/06/11/lobbyists-loom-behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight/\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Lobbyists Loom Behind the Scenes of School Nutrition Fight\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First Lady Michelle Obama, who helped spearhead the new regulations, is vehemently opposed to delaying or softening the new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. He says that kids will eat healthier foods if they are provided with them and claims that, overall, school food revenues around the country are up by about $200 million dollars since the changes took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The facts just don't basically support the notion that somehow school district are financially strapped to be able comply,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His advice for schools that are struggling: instead of asking to opt-out, ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearings over the waivers started on the House floor Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some lawmakers say schools should be able to delay implementing new nutrition standards in school lunches.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1402636768,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":558},"headData":{"title":"School Lunch Debate: What's At Stake? | KQED","description":"Some lawmakers say schools should be able to delay implementing new nutrition standards in school lunches.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"19488 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=19488","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/06/11/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake/","disqusTitle":"School Lunch Debate: What's At Stake?","path":"/stateofhealth/19488/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-15440\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122.jpg\" alt=\"While 90 percent of schools have made the transition to new school lunch standards, some schools insist that the standards are unworkable. (Photo: USDA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-e1380770435122-320x212.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While 90 percent of schools have made the transition to new school lunch standards, some schools insist that the standards are unworkable. (Photo: USDA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Allison Aubrey and Jessica Pupovac\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320882341/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School lunches have never been known for culinary excellence. But to be fair, the National School Lunch Program — which provides free or reduced lunches to about 31 million kids every day — has never aimed to dazzle as much as to fill little bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Congress gave the Federal School Lunch Program a nutrition make-over. New regulations called for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increasing the amount of whole grains served in school cafeterias\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shifting to fat free or low-fat milks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Limiting the amount of calories that can come from saturated fats to 10 percent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offering fruits and vegetables on a daily basis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Implementing caloric minimums and maximums for each meal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those were just the first steps. By the school year starting this fall, schools are also required to:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reduce the amount of sodium school cafeterias can serve to a maximum of 1,230 to 1,420 milligrams a day for lunch (depending on age group) and 540 to 640 milligrams a day for breakfast.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shift to 100 percent \"whole grain-rich\" products, which means that they are mostly whole grain.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the agriculture appropriations bill, which may come to a vote on Thursday, schools would also receive additional support for making the transition to a healthier menu, including provisions to help them purchase new equipment to prepare fresher foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"gJWHEusGINj4Z7JafteoUw4hYBsSxLZ4\"]Sam Kass, senior advisor for nutrition policy at the White House, says 90 percent of schools have already — or are in the process of — implementing the new standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, half of all products served in the school lunch program must be \"whole-grain rich,\" which USDA defines as products made of at least 50 percent whole grain. According to the new standards, by the start of the next school year, schools must use only products that are whole-grain rich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But GOP leaders, as well as the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food service directors and several companies that supply school cafeterias, say the upcoming requirements are unworkable. They claim that kids don't want the healthy options and, as a result, too much food is being wasted. They also say that the cost of reducing sodium and other preservatives are placing an undue burden on schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama Republican Congressman Robert Aderholt introduced a provision that would give school districts a year-long waiver from both old and new standards if they can show that they are losing money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">[\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/06/11/lobbyists-loom-behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight/\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Lobbyists Loom Behind the Scenes of School Nutrition Fight\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First Lady Michelle Obama, who helped spearhead the new regulations, is vehemently opposed to delaying or softening the new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. He says that kids will eat healthier foods if they are provided with them and claims that, overall, school food revenues around the country are up by about $200 million dollars since the changes took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The facts just don't basically support the notion that somehow school district are financially strapped to be able comply,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His advice for schools that are struggling: instead of asking to opt-out, ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearings over the waivers started on the House floor Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/19488/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_12","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_299","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_15440","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_15438":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_15438","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"15438","score":null,"sort":[1380816326000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"school-meals-face-rules-on-fat-meat-veggies-but-no-limits-on-sugar-school-lunch","title":"School Meals Face Rules on Fat, Meat, Veggies – But No Limits on Sugar","publishDate":1380816326,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/41284017@N08/7995796099/in/photolist-dbyxBr-dbyAAG-dbyBzy-dbyzdA-dbyC9q-dbyAij-dbyCMQ-dbyDqA-dbyBGE-dbyCE5-dbyzrZ-dbyBZQ-dbyyNU-dbyA6U-dbyBVS-dbyzpL-dbyyKc-dbyBfz-dbyyEx-dbyzx3-dbyzP6-dbyAYu-dbyz2U-dbyzKG-dbyCv3-dbyzg7-dbyBfY-dbyBpQ-dbyxPx-dbywSH-dbyChm-dbyAq4-dbyDmm-dbyASH-dbyARN-dbyB7d-dbyzYC-dbyAud-dbyB8H-dbyz8o-dbyxsB-dbyCYw-8KiC9Y-ayDy68-azaFpD-d6WUpm-cZDSds-e9WPJv-e9WPJe-fh9dsC-abwWoB\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-15440 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: USDAgov via Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: USDAgov via Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Eleanor Yang Su\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything about a school cafeteria meal has a regulation. The federal government caps the amount of fat and salt in breakfasts and lunches. It sets minimum standards for servings of fruit, vegetables, grains, milk and meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one widely used and often-overused product has no official limits: sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress faces increased scrutiny over subsidies to the sugar industry, nutritionists and anti-obesity crusaders are focusing on the amount of sugar in school meals – and asking whether regulations governing school lunches deliberately exclude limits on sugar to favor a powerful industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent research shows that sugar levels in school meals are more than double what is recommended for the general public. Elementary school lunch menus contain 115 percent of the recommended daily calories from added sugars and fats, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/nutrition/snda-iv_vol1.pdf\">November study\u003c/a> by the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. Middle school and high school lunch menus also are sugar- and fat-heavy, averaging between 59 and 74 percent of the recommended amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 5 school lunch menus includes dessert, the federal study said. The most common are cookies, cakes and brownies, some of which are counted as grain requirements. Other popular options are fruit with gelatin, ice cream and pudding.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment is based on a 2010 survey of about 900 schools across the country and is considered the most comprehensive federal research on school meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, schools added sweets, such as graham crackers or cookies, to bump up calorie counts and meet minimum thresholds. Researchers say that practice is less common now that the USDA has implemented calorie limits. But some say sugary treats still are appealing to school administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sugar-related products are the least expensive source of calories in the school meal program,” said Matthew Sharp, senior advocate for California Food Policy Advocates. He said many school officials oppose reducing sugar in meals because it would force them to buy more expensive products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA, which administers the national school lunch and breakfast programs, says newly created total calorie limits are designed to discourage extra-sugary and fatty foods. A USDA spokesman noted that as of June 30, about 70 percent\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of all schools have shown they’re in compliance with the new plan, which means students are eating healthier meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry representatives at the Sugar Association, a Washington lobbying group, said the USDA based its final rules on “many important and practical considerations.” For one, it said in a statement, “sugar makes many healthful foods palatable so children will eat them, which the science confirms helps\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>increase intakes of many essential vitamins and minerals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to emphasize that the most important consideration of a healthful diet is the nutritional value of the foods and beverages consumed, not the sugar content,” the association said. “Portion control, monitoring caloric intake and being physically active are among the most important tools children can learn for long-term health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But researchers say students’ sugar consumption places them at greater risk for obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Boys consume an average of about 360 calories – more than 22 teaspoons – of added sugars a day, according to a 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db87.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Girls average about 280 calories – more than 17 teaspoons – daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if regulators eventually agree to restrict sugar in meals, schools would face the challenge of finding more healthful processed foods and the money to buy them. The federal government reimburses schools between 27 cents and $2.86 for each lunch served, depending on how much students can pay. Many school districts struggle to run their cafeterias with the current funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have come to rely on revenue from vending machines, which Sharp says are one of the worst sources of sugary snacks and drinks on campus. He’s optimistic about the new standards released by the USDA that require items sold at school vending machines and snack bars to meet minimal nutrient requirements and limit sodium, sugar and fat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as regulators tighten rules, other challenges arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In L.A., there’s some neighborhoods where street vendors come around the school at the start of school and during breaks,” said Michael Goran, director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the University of Southern California. “The students can easily buy a boatload of sugary products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, researchers have debated how much sugar can be consumed in a healthy diet. USDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/dietaryguidelines.htm\">guidelines\u003c/a> say calories from added sugars and solid fats should be limited to 5 to 15 percent of daily calories but provides no specific rule for sugars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, American children \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db87.pdf\">consume\u003c/a> about 16 percent of their daily calories from added sugars, which include white sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, honey and other sweeteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some academics who believe that Americans are eating too much sugar blame the lack of regulations on the political clout of the food and beverage industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sugar is the only nutrient with no dietary reference intake, and it’s because the food industry doesn’t want it,” said Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lustig is the author of “Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease” and has been on a crusade against sugar. He argues that it’s addictive and toxic and that in the amounts consumed by Americans, sugar changes metabolism, raises blood pressure and damages the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sugar Association argues that Lustig's research lacks scientific basis and that sugar consumption is correlated with, but not the proven cause of, health problems like Type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not consuming enough of it (sugar) for it to have negative health impacts,” said Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the lobbying group. “If the science supported setting an upper limit intake on sugar, they (federal regulators) would do it. There has been no major body of science to come out in support of it. That's why it hasn't happened yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA officials say school meal regulations are based on independent scientific recommendations and input from all stakeholders. In its statement, the Sugar Association said it “did not lobby or meet with anyone at the U.S. Department of Agriculture with respect to the school lunch rule, nor was the Association involved in the crafting of that rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say political pushback from food and beverage companies is part of the problem, but regulating sugar is complicated. It can be difficult to differentiate and enforce rules for naturally occurring sugars and added sweeteners, said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extra calories that many children can’t afford,” Wootan said. “One-third of children are either overweight or obese. And it contributes to heart disease and diabetes. And in addition to that, oftentimes, the sugary food crowds out more healthy foods that kids need. So kids are overfed and undernourished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Pam Hogle and Nikki Frick.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawatch.org\">\u003cstrong>www.cironline.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Almost everything about a school cafeteria meal has a regulation. The federal government caps the amount of fat and salt in breakfasts and lunches. It sets minimum standards for servings of fruit, vegetables, grains, milk and meat.\r\n\r\nBut one widely used and often-overused product has no official limits: sugar.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1380916442,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1264},"headData":{"title":"School Meals Face Rules on Fat, Meat, Veggies – But No Limits on Sugar | KQED","description":"Almost everything about a school cafeteria meal has a regulation. The federal government caps the amount of fat and salt in breakfasts and lunches. It sets minimum standards for servings of fruit, vegetables, grains, milk and meat.\r\n\r\nBut one widely used and often-overused product has no official limits: sugar.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"15438 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=15438","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/10/03/school-meals-face-rules-on-fat-meat-veggies-but-no-limits-on-sugar-school-lunch/","disqusTitle":"School Meals Face Rules on Fat, Meat, Veggies – But No Limits on Sugar","WpOldSlug":"school-meals-face-rules-on-fat-meat-veggies-but-no-limits-on-sugar","path":"/stateofhealth/15438/school-meals-face-rules-on-fat-meat-veggies-but-no-limits-on-sugar-school-lunch","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/41284017@N08/7995796099/in/photolist-dbyxBr-dbyAAG-dbyBzy-dbyzdA-dbyC9q-dbyAij-dbyCMQ-dbyDqA-dbyBGE-dbyCE5-dbyzrZ-dbyBZQ-dbyyNU-dbyA6U-dbyBVS-dbyzpL-dbyyKc-dbyBfz-dbyyEx-dbyzx3-dbyzP6-dbyAYu-dbyz2U-dbyzKG-dbyCv3-dbyzg7-dbyBfY-dbyBpQ-dbyxPx-dbywSH-dbyChm-dbyAq4-dbyDmm-dbyASH-dbyARN-dbyB7d-dbyzYC-dbyAud-dbyB8H-dbyz8o-dbyxsB-dbyCYw-8KiC9Y-ayDy68-azaFpD-d6WUpm-cZDSds-e9WPJv-e9WPJe-fh9dsC-abwWoB\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-15440 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/7995796099_c60447daba_c-640x424.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: USDAgov via Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: USDAgov via Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Eleanor Yang Su\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything about a school cafeteria meal has a regulation. The federal government caps the amount of fat and salt in breakfasts and lunches. It sets minimum standards for servings of fruit, vegetables, grains, milk and meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one widely used and often-overused product has no official limits: sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress faces increased scrutiny over subsidies to the sugar industry, nutritionists and anti-obesity crusaders are focusing on the amount of sugar in school meals – and asking whether regulations governing school lunches deliberately exclude limits on sugar to favor a powerful industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent research shows that sugar levels in school meals are more than double what is recommended for the general public. Elementary school lunch menus contain 115 percent of the recommended daily calories from added sugars and fats, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/nutrition/snda-iv_vol1.pdf\">November study\u003c/a> by the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. Middle school and high school lunch menus also are sugar- and fat-heavy, averaging between 59 and 74 percent of the recommended amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 5 school lunch menus includes dessert, the federal study said. The most common are cookies, cakes and brownies, some of which are counted as grain requirements. Other popular options are fruit with gelatin, ice cream and pudding.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment is based on a 2010 survey of about 900 schools across the country and is considered the most comprehensive federal research on school meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, schools added sweets, such as graham crackers or cookies, to bump up calorie counts and meet minimum thresholds. Researchers say that practice is less common now that the USDA has implemented calorie limits. But some say sugary treats still are appealing to school administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sugar-related products are the least expensive source of calories in the school meal program,” said Matthew Sharp, senior advocate for California Food Policy Advocates. He said many school officials oppose reducing sugar in meals because it would force them to buy more expensive products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA, which administers the national school lunch and breakfast programs, says newly created total calorie limits are designed to discourage extra-sugary and fatty foods. A USDA spokesman noted that as of June 30, about 70 percent\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of all schools have shown they’re in compliance with the new plan, which means students are eating healthier meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry representatives at the Sugar Association, a Washington lobbying group, said the USDA based its final rules on “many important and practical considerations.” For one, it said in a statement, “sugar makes many healthful foods palatable so children will eat them, which the science confirms helps\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>increase intakes of many essential vitamins and minerals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to emphasize that the most important consideration of a healthful diet is the nutritional value of the foods and beverages consumed, not the sugar content,” the association said. “Portion control, monitoring caloric intake and being physically active are among the most important tools children can learn for long-term health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But researchers say students’ sugar consumption places them at greater risk for obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Boys consume an average of about 360 calories – more than 22 teaspoons – of added sugars a day, according to a 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db87.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Girls average about 280 calories – more than 17 teaspoons – daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if regulators eventually agree to restrict sugar in meals, schools would face the challenge of finding more healthful processed foods and the money to buy them. The federal government reimburses schools between 27 cents and $2.86 for each lunch served, depending on how much students can pay. Many school districts struggle to run their cafeterias with the current funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have come to rely on revenue from vending machines, which Sharp says are one of the worst sources of sugary snacks and drinks on campus. He’s optimistic about the new standards released by the USDA that require items sold at school vending machines and snack bars to meet minimal nutrient requirements and limit sodium, sugar and fat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as regulators tighten rules, other challenges arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In L.A., there’s some neighborhoods where street vendors come around the school at the start of school and during breaks,” said Michael Goran, director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the University of Southern California. “The students can easily buy a boatload of sugary products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, researchers have debated how much sugar can be consumed in a healthy diet. USDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/dietaryguidelines.htm\">guidelines\u003c/a> say calories from added sugars and solid fats should be limited to 5 to 15 percent of daily calories but provides no specific rule for sugars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, American children \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db87.pdf\">consume\u003c/a> about 16 percent of their daily calories from added sugars, which include white sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, honey and other sweeteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some academics who believe that Americans are eating too much sugar blame the lack of regulations on the political clout of the food and beverage industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sugar is the only nutrient with no dietary reference intake, and it’s because the food industry doesn’t want it,” said Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lustig is the author of “Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease” and has been on a crusade against sugar. He argues that it’s addictive and toxic and that in the amounts consumed by Americans, sugar changes metabolism, raises blood pressure and damages the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sugar Association argues that Lustig's research lacks scientific basis and that sugar consumption is correlated with, but not the proven cause of, health problems like Type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not consuming enough of it (sugar) for it to have negative health impacts,” said Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the lobbying group. “If the science supported setting an upper limit intake on sugar, they (federal regulators) would do it. There has been no major body of science to come out in support of it. That's why it hasn't happened yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA officials say school meal regulations are based on independent scientific recommendations and input from all stakeholders. In its statement, the Sugar Association said it “did not lobby or meet with anyone at the U.S. Department of Agriculture with respect to the school lunch rule, nor was the Association involved in the crafting of that rule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say political pushback from food and beverage companies is part of the problem, but regulating sugar is complicated. It can be difficult to differentiate and enforce rules for naturally occurring sugars and added sweeteners, said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extra calories that many children can’t afford,” Wootan said. “One-third of children are either overweight or obese. And it contributes to heart disease and diabetes. And in addition to that, oftentimes, the sugary food crowds out more healthy foods that kids need. So kids are overfed and undernourished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Pam Hogle and Nikki Frick.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawatch.org\">\u003cstrong>www.cironline.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/15438/school-meals-face-rules-on-fat-meat-veggies-but-no-limits-on-sugar-school-lunch","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_12","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_299"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_15440","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_15061":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_15061","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"15061","score":null,"sort":[1379438882000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-school-lunch-matters-in-states-new-education-funding-formula","title":"Why School Lunch Matters in State's New Education Funding Formula","publishDate":1379438882,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/137164122-e1379438099505.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-15063\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/137164122-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jane Meredith Adams,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.edsource.org/today/2013/school-finance-reform-prompts-dispute-over-counting-low-income-students/38908#.UjiGcBZRYRk\" target=\"_blank\">EdSource\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Never has school lunch meant so much for California education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delivering significantly more money to schools based on the number of low-income children they serve is at the heart of the sweeping\u003ca href=\"http://www.edsource.org/today/2013/a-new-k-12-funding-system-demands-new-thinking-in-building-local-budgets/36182#.UjXukryxM7A\" target=\"_blank\"> new K-12 finance system\u003c/a> approved by the state Legislature in June. The new system defines “low income” as those students eligible for the school’s free and reduced-price meals program.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If the demand for new paperwork jeopardizes funding for needy children in any way, after years of work to pass Proposition 30, “People will become unglued.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But two months into the rollout of the reforms, which Gov. Jerry Brown praised as a victory for the neediest students, two of the largest districts –- Los Angeles Unified and Fresno Unified –- are in a dispute with the state over a last-minute change in how children who receive free meals are counted. Instead of moving into the school year confident of how much new funding they’ll receive for low-income students, the two districts, as well as scores of other districts in the state, are now being asked to submit new data from hundreds of thousands of low-income families before the funding will be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t bargain for this and we were not told this,” said John Deasy, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest district with more than 650,000 students, more than half of whom –- 384,000 students –- attend 466 district schools that are being asked to certify low-income students again. If the demand for new paperwork jeopardizes funding for needy children in any way, after years of work to pass Proposition 30 to fund education and to pass the new education finance system, Deasy said, there will be an outcry from educators, advocates, students, parents and legislators. “People will become unglued,” he said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Two different methods of counting heads\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The dispute originated in a California Department of Education \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/cl/documents/calpadsupdflash78.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> in August that it would no longer accept meal eligibility data used for decades by the federal government at a subset of schools that serve high percentages of low-income families. The state’s rejection of the data is being “hotly contested” in conversations between the district, the California Department of Education and the governor’s office, Deasy said. “We have been documenting poverty for years,” he said, and the federal data requirements are “an absolutely legitimate way to document poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The August announcement sent districts into a panic because they believed they would need to file the new low-income student certification data by Oct. 2. That's the annual “census day” when schools must provide a comprehensive count of their student body to the state. But the state has clarified its information and has said that schools can correct the documentation of low-income students through Feb. 6, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are two different methods used by the federal government to track low-income students eligible for free and reduced-price meals. The first method, used by the vast majority of schools, reports eligible students by their individual student identification numbers every year. The second method, used by 1,529 schools in high-poverty neighborhoods in the state, reports students individually once every four years and then uses that “base year” data to create a percentage of eligible students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for low-income students on the line, the California Department of Education says it needs current data on low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing to do a rough estimate (based on numbers collected every four years), and it’s a much different thing when you have to calculate how much money to give to schools,” said Keric Ashley, director of the Analysis, Measurement and Accountability Reporting Division in the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Millions at stake\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Under the new formula approved by the Legislature, districts are supposed to receive additional funds for every high-needs student enrolled – as much as $3,000 per student once the formula is fully funded over the next eight years. With more than half of California’s 6 million students from low-income families, the monetary impact is huge for both the districts and the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that demands reliable data, said Ashley, noting that some high-poverty-level schools collect data even less frequently than every four years. This is because income levels at their schools have remained consistently low and the federal government has granted extensions. There are schools, he said, “that haven’t collected that data for over a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at issue is whether low-income students must be identified individually, by their student identification numbers – which is data the group of high-poverty schools don’t have. But this level of detail is necessary, Ashley said, to ensure that low-income students aren’t also counted as foster youth or English learners. Each of these classifications – low income, foster youth and English learner – triggers additional funding for a student, but students are not allowed to collect additional funding for more than one classification. For instance, for the purposes of the new state funding formula, a low-income foster youth must be categorized as either low income or foster youth, but not both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ruth F. Quinto, chief financial officer of Fresno Unified, questioned whether a new round of data collection was necessary in this first year of implementation of the new funding system, known as the Local Control Funding Formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The requirements from the California Department of Education to document all of this sensitive information right now, we believe, are unnecessary, given the type of documentation that already exists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno district has 35,000 students in 79 schools – representing three-quarters of the 106 schools in the district – that serve high-poverty neighborhoods and use the four-year data collection cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘Students are going to get left out’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While still hoping that the California Department of Education will adjust its demand for new documents, Quinto said Fresno is gearing up for a massive outreach to families. “The biggest barrier is logistically reaching families and having forms completed, returned, entered and accepted by the state,” she said. “We are putting together teams of people in a variety of languages, a game plan, and different communication strategies if we are left with no choice but to get moving on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “Students are going to get left out. We believe that would be in contrast to the governor’s desire to provide resources to our most at-risk population statewide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even smaller districts are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t make the (federal) rules on how my kids qualify for free and reduced-price lunch,” said Frank Betry, superintendent of the Terra Bella Union School District in Tulare County. State lawmakers decided to use federal eligibility for the meal program as the qualification for extra funding for low-income students, he said, but now the California Department of Education has decided it won’t accept that count at the high-poverty schools. “If you are going to attach a qualifier to an existing program,” he said, “you can’t carve out the rules you don’t like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deasy and others are still hoping to find a solution that addresses both district and state needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding formula is “supposed to be less bureaucratic, more flexible and serve kids of greatest need,” Deasy said. “We believe in it completely and we hope the governor continues to be the unwavering governor he has been on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Never has school lunch meant so much for California education.\r\n\r\nDelivering significantly more money to schools based on the number of low-income children they serve is at the heart of the sweeping new K-12 finance system approved by the state Legislature in June. The new system defines “low income” as those students eligible for the school’s free and reduced-price meals program.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1379612104,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1347},"headData":{"title":"Why School Lunch Matters in State's New Education Funding Formula | KQED","description":"Never has school lunch meant so much for California education.\r\n\r\nDelivering significantly more money to schools based on the number of low-income children they serve is at the heart of the sweeping new K-12 finance system approved by the state Legislature in June. The new system defines “low income” as those students eligible for the school’s free and reduced-price meals program.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"15061 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=15061","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/17/why-school-lunch-matters-in-states-new-education-funding-formula/","disqusTitle":"Why School Lunch Matters in State's New Education Funding Formula","path":"/stateofhealth/15061/why-school-lunch-matters-in-states-new-education-funding-formula","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/137164122-e1379438099505.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-15063\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/137164122-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jane Meredith Adams,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.edsource.org/today/2013/school-finance-reform-prompts-dispute-over-counting-low-income-students/38908#.UjiGcBZRYRk\" target=\"_blank\">EdSource\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Never has school lunch meant so much for California education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delivering significantly more money to schools based on the number of low-income children they serve is at the heart of the sweeping\u003ca href=\"http://www.edsource.org/today/2013/a-new-k-12-funding-system-demands-new-thinking-in-building-local-budgets/36182#.UjXukryxM7A\" target=\"_blank\"> new K-12 finance system\u003c/a> approved by the state Legislature in June. The new system defines “low income” as those students eligible for the school’s free and reduced-price meals program.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If the demand for new paperwork jeopardizes funding for needy children in any way, after years of work to pass Proposition 30, “People will become unglued.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But two months into the rollout of the reforms, which Gov. Jerry Brown praised as a victory for the neediest students, two of the largest districts –- Los Angeles Unified and Fresno Unified –- are in a dispute with the state over a last-minute change in how children who receive free meals are counted. Instead of moving into the school year confident of how much new funding they’ll receive for low-income students, the two districts, as well as scores of other districts in the state, are now being asked to submit new data from hundreds of thousands of low-income families before the funding will be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t bargain for this and we were not told this,” said John Deasy, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest district with more than 650,000 students, more than half of whom –- 384,000 students –- attend 466 district schools that are being asked to certify low-income students again. If the demand for new paperwork jeopardizes funding for needy children in any way, after years of work to pass Proposition 30 to fund education and to pass the new education finance system, Deasy said, there will be an outcry from educators, advocates, students, parents and legislators. “People will become unglued,” he said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Two different methods of counting heads\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The dispute originated in a California Department of Education \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/cl/documents/calpadsupdflash78.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> in August that it would no longer accept meal eligibility data used for decades by the federal government at a subset of schools that serve high percentages of low-income families. The state’s rejection of the data is being “hotly contested” in conversations between the district, the California Department of Education and the governor’s office, Deasy said. “We have been documenting poverty for years,” he said, and the federal data requirements are “an absolutely legitimate way to document poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The August announcement sent districts into a panic because they believed they would need to file the new low-income student certification data by Oct. 2. That's the annual “census day” when schools must provide a comprehensive count of their student body to the state. But the state has clarified its information and has said that schools can correct the documentation of low-income students through Feb. 6, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are two different methods used by the federal government to track low-income students eligible for free and reduced-price meals. The first method, used by the vast majority of schools, reports eligible students by their individual student identification numbers every year. The second method, used by 1,529 schools in high-poverty neighborhoods in the state, reports students individually once every four years and then uses that “base year” data to create a percentage of eligible students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for low-income students on the line, the California Department of Education says it needs current data on low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing to do a rough estimate (based on numbers collected every four years), and it’s a much different thing when you have to calculate how much money to give to schools,” said Keric Ashley, director of the Analysis, Measurement and Accountability Reporting Division in the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Millions at stake\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Under the new formula approved by the Legislature, districts are supposed to receive additional funds for every high-needs student enrolled – as much as $3,000 per student once the formula is fully funded over the next eight years. With more than half of California’s 6 million students from low-income families, the monetary impact is huge for both the districts and the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that demands reliable data, said Ashley, noting that some high-poverty-level schools collect data even less frequently than every four years. This is because income levels at their schools have remained consistently low and the federal government has granted extensions. There are schools, he said, “that haven’t collected that data for over a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at issue is whether low-income students must be identified individually, by their student identification numbers – which is data the group of high-poverty schools don’t have. But this level of detail is necessary, Ashley said, to ensure that low-income students aren’t also counted as foster youth or English learners. Each of these classifications – low income, foster youth and English learner – triggers additional funding for a student, but students are not allowed to collect additional funding for more than one classification. For instance, for the purposes of the new state funding formula, a low-income foster youth must be categorized as either low income or foster youth, but not both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Ruth F. Quinto, chief financial officer of Fresno Unified, questioned whether a new round of data collection was necessary in this first year of implementation of the new funding system, known as the Local Control Funding Formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The requirements from the California Department of Education to document all of this sensitive information right now, we believe, are unnecessary, given the type of documentation that already exists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno district has 35,000 students in 79 schools – representing three-quarters of the 106 schools in the district – that serve high-poverty neighborhoods and use the four-year data collection cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘Students are going to get left out’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While still hoping that the California Department of Education will adjust its demand for new documents, Quinto said Fresno is gearing up for a massive outreach to families. “The biggest barrier is logistically reaching families and having forms completed, returned, entered and accepted by the state,” she said. “We are putting together teams of people in a variety of languages, a game plan, and different communication strategies if we are left with no choice but to get moving on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “Students are going to get left out. We believe that would be in contrast to the governor’s desire to provide resources to our most at-risk population statewide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even smaller districts are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t make the (federal) rules on how my kids qualify for free and reduced-price lunch,” said Frank Betry, superintendent of the Terra Bella Union School District in Tulare County. State lawmakers decided to use federal eligibility for the meal program as the qualification for extra funding for low-income students, he said, but now the California Department of Education has decided it won’t accept that count at the high-poverty schools. “If you are going to attach a qualifier to an existing program,” he said, “you can’t carve out the rules you don’t like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deasy and others are still hoping to find a solution that addresses both district and state needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding formula is “supposed to be less bureaucratic, more flexible and serve kids of greatest need,” Deasy said. “We believe in it completely and we hope the governor continues to be the unwavering governor he has been on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/15061/why-school-lunch-matters-in-states-new-education-funding-formula","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_299"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_15063","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_14605":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_14605","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"14605","score":null,"sort":[1377795450000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"short-school-lunch-periods-leave-kids-hungry","title":"Short School Lunch Periods Leave Kids Hungry","publishDate":1377795450,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12625\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760.jpg\" alt=\"Lunchtime at Oakland High School The Oakland Unified School District switched to a closed-campus lunch last fall, and the school now offers free lunches to every student. (Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760-400x228.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760-320x183.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students eat lunch in the Oakland High School cafeteria. To get lunch, students in one line enter their ID numbers – used by staff to track free and reduced-price meals – and then receive tickets to exchange for meals in other lines. One student said he typically waits 20 to 25 minutes for food. (Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/person/joanna-lin\" target=\"_blank\"> Joanna Lin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/fast-food-students-struggle-healthy-options-short-lunch-periods-5139\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green beans are portioned and displayed in orderly rows. The lasagnas are steaming up their plastic covers. The workers stand ready, their hair netted and aprons tied. The bell rings, and a stream of nearly 1,000 students floods in to Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School's cafeteria, barely slowing as they load cardboard trays with apple juice, chicken wings and sliced cucumbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Hungry students are more prone to headaches, stomachaches and behavior problems and less able to concentrate in class, educators say.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Because lunch is free for all students at Bravo, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, no one pauses to pay. Still, during the lunch rush this day in May, food service worker Rodelinda Gomez stops a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey! Hey!” Gomez hollers to students with no greens on their trays. “Come on and get your vegetables. You have to get them!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For schools to receive federal reimbursement for lunches, they must serve -- not just offer -- each student at least a half-cup of fruit or vegetables. Lunches also must include servings of at least two other foods, such as a protein and a grain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirement, adopted in the last school year, is part of an effort to serve students healthier foods. And eating those foods takes time – more time than many students have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A student can eat a cup of applesauce in no time – you can practically drink that. But chewing through an apple takes a lot longer,” said Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association, a national advocacy organization. “If we want our students to eat more salads, fruits and vegetables, we need to give them more time to consume them.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20 minutes minimum for lunch, a recommendation often not followed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National school and health organizations and some states -- including California -- recommend that students have at least 20 minutes to eat lunch after it is served. But “that’s not happening in all schools,” Pratt-Heavner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the average lunch period was 31 minutes in the 2009-10 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent data available. Students waited in line an average of five minutes and as long as 30 minutes to get lunch, food service managers reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District has touted the 20-minute standard since 1990. Yet a district analysis last year showed that seven out of 10 high schools and nearly half of elementary schools missed the mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we find is, with the kids that don’t have the time, they don’t eat anything,” said David Binkle, the district’s director of food services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uneaten meals mean hungry students who are more prone to headaches, stomachaches and behavior problems and less able to concentrate in class, educators say. They also increase food waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, L.A. Unified’s school board reaffirmed its policy to provide all students enough time to eat. As students return to campus this month, many will see more lunch lines, points of sales or staff to serve them; others will have longer lunch periods, Binkle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the school year, Binkle hopes to have cut in half the number of schools failing to offer at least 20 minutes to eat lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say L.A. Unified is the only district they know of that’s trying to provide students a minimum time to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think (it) is on our radar for any of the other districts. Not that it’s not needed – it’s just so difficult,” said Nicola Edwards, a nutrition policy advocate at California Food Policy Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, schools face a number of challenges in carving out enough time to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aging facilities can mean cramped cafeterias and long lines. And tight bell schedules that prioritize instructional minutes leave lunchtime with “the short end of the stick,” said Joanne Tucker, food services marketing coordinator for the San Diego Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Innovative approaches to give kids more time for lunch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are ways schools are trying to allow students more time to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When lines get too long, the San Jose Unified School District deploys extra staff to help serve lunch, said John Sixt, the district’s director of student nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District is piloting vending machines that sell full meals, allowing students to skip the cafeteria, said Zetta Reicker, the district’s assistant director for student nutrition services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified used grant money to roll out mobile food carts at its high schools, creating more places to get food on campus. At San Diego High School, where 2,700 students attend five smaller thematic schools, there are 22 service locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with multiple service locations, students say waits still can be too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Saelee, now a senior at Oakland High School, said he decides what to eat based on which of the school’s seven service areas has the shortest line. The Friday before school let out for summer, a horde of students blocked his view of his chosen cafeteria window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess tacos?” he said with a shrug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with this approach, Saelee said he typically waits 20 to 25 minutes because people cut in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland High, students in one line punch in their ID numbers, so that staff can track free and reduced-price meals, and then receive tickets they’ll exchange for lunches in other lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s never enough time,” said Yvette Santos, who graduated in June. “You have to get in a line to get a ticket, then get into another line to get the food. Then your food’s cold when you get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools short on time often serve grab-and-go meals and preportioned foods. Both options can be found at Bravo in Los Angeles, which has a 30-minute lunch period and serves 1,000 lunches per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 200 students ate grab-and-go lunches when they took standardized tests this spring and could not leave their classrooms, said Bob Milner, the school’s cafe manager. The meals are also a popular choice for students who have tutoring or club meetings during lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates say quick, portable meals are a step in the wrong direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not what we want to teach children to do – to grab their food and eat it in the car or eat it on the run,” said Zenobia Barlow, executive director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, which has advocated for school food reform. “To get a healthy meal and sit down and just eat it like a human being – (it) seems like we really need to take a look at that and try our best to preserve some quality in that experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Sharelette Rodgers, a food services manager for Oakland Unified, time is not a problem. “The kids would just rather go to the fast-food places,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or they would rather not eat at all. “Sometimes, I don’t eat because I don’t like it,” Cedric Bonsol, now a junior at Bravo, said of school lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In school after school, the primary complaint students have about lunch is not the time but the food itself. Binkle, of L.A. Unified, said the issues are related. He likened the school cafeteria to a restaurant trying to serve 2,000 meals in 20 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had 40 minutes, then we’d only have to prepare half and serve half at a time,” he said. “You get much higher-quality food, you get much fresher food, because it’s being cooked more to order than … scrambled eggs on the buffet that have been sitting there for six hours. The longer you stretch it out, the more personalized the service and the quality of food is improved.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"National school and health organizations and some states – including California – recommend that students have at least 20 minutes to eat lunch after they’re served. But “that’s not happening in all schools,” Pratt-Heavner said.\r\n\r\nNationwide, the average lunch period was 31 minutes in the 2009-10 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent data available. Students waited in line an average of five minutes and as long as 30 minutes to get lunch, food service managers reported.\r\n\r\n“What we find is, with the kids that don’t have the time, they don’t eat anything,” said David Binkle, the district’s director of food services.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1377896610,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1446},"headData":{"title":"Short School Lunch Periods Leave Kids Hungry | KQED","description":"National school and health organizations and some states – including California – recommend that students have at least 20 minutes to eat lunch after they’re served. But “that’s not happening in all schools,” Pratt-Heavner said.\r\n\r\nNationwide, the average lunch period was 31 minutes in the 2009-10 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent data available. Students waited in line an average of five minutes and as long as 30 minutes to get lunch, food service managers reported.\r\n\r\n“What we find is, with the kids that don’t have the time, they don’t eat anything,” said David Binkle, the district’s director of food services.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"14605 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=14605","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/29/short-school-lunch-periods-leave-kids-hungry/","disqusTitle":"Short School Lunch Periods Leave Kids Hungry","path":"/stateofhealth/14605/short-school-lunch-periods-leave-kids-hungry","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12625\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760.jpg\" alt=\"Lunchtime at Oakland High School The Oakland Unified School District switched to a closed-campus lunch last fall, and the school now offers free lunches to every student. (Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760-400x228.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/oakfood05_NoahBerger_CIR-e1377794012760-320x183.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students eat lunch in the Oakland High School cafeteria. To get lunch, students in one line enter their ID numbers – used by staff to track free and reduced-price meals – and then receive tickets to exchange for meals in other lines. One student said he typically waits 20 to 25 minutes for food. (Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/person/joanna-lin\" target=\"_blank\"> Joanna Lin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/fast-food-students-struggle-healthy-options-short-lunch-periods-5139\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green beans are portioned and displayed in orderly rows. The lasagnas are steaming up their plastic covers. The workers stand ready, their hair netted and aprons tied. The bell rings, and a stream of nearly 1,000 students floods in to Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School's cafeteria, barely slowing as they load cardboard trays with apple juice, chicken wings and sliced cucumbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Hungry students are more prone to headaches, stomachaches and behavior problems and less able to concentrate in class, educators say.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Because lunch is free for all students at Bravo, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, no one pauses to pay. Still, during the lunch rush this day in May, food service worker Rodelinda Gomez stops a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey! Hey!” Gomez hollers to students with no greens on their trays. “Come on and get your vegetables. You have to get them!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For schools to receive federal reimbursement for lunches, they must serve -- not just offer -- each student at least a half-cup of fruit or vegetables. Lunches also must include servings of at least two other foods, such as a protein and a grain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirement, adopted in the last school year, is part of an effort to serve students healthier foods. And eating those foods takes time – more time than many students have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A student can eat a cup of applesauce in no time – you can practically drink that. But chewing through an apple takes a lot longer,” said Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association, a national advocacy organization. “If we want our students to eat more salads, fruits and vegetables, we need to give them more time to consume them.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20 minutes minimum for lunch, a recommendation often not followed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National school and health organizations and some states -- including California -- recommend that students have at least 20 minutes to eat lunch after it is served. But “that’s not happening in all schools,” Pratt-Heavner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, the average lunch period was 31 minutes in the 2009-10 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent data available. Students waited in line an average of five minutes and as long as 30 minutes to get lunch, food service managers reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District has touted the 20-minute standard since 1990. Yet a district analysis last year showed that seven out of 10 high schools and nearly half of elementary schools missed the mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we find is, with the kids that don’t have the time, they don’t eat anything,” said David Binkle, the district’s director of food services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uneaten meals mean hungry students who are more prone to headaches, stomachaches and behavior problems and less able to concentrate in class, educators say. They also increase food waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, L.A. Unified’s school board reaffirmed its policy to provide all students enough time to eat. As students return to campus this month, many will see more lunch lines, points of sales or staff to serve them; others will have longer lunch periods, Binkle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the school year, Binkle hopes to have cut in half the number of schools failing to offer at least 20 minutes to eat lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say L.A. Unified is the only district they know of that’s trying to provide students a minimum time to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think (it) is on our radar for any of the other districts. Not that it’s not needed – it’s just so difficult,” said Nicola Edwards, a nutrition policy advocate at California Food Policy Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, schools face a number of challenges in carving out enough time to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aging facilities can mean cramped cafeterias and long lines. And tight bell schedules that prioritize instructional minutes leave lunchtime with “the short end of the stick,” said Joanne Tucker, food services marketing coordinator for the San Diego Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Innovative approaches to give kids more time for lunch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are ways schools are trying to allow students more time to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When lines get too long, the San Jose Unified School District deploys extra staff to help serve lunch, said John Sixt, the district’s director of student nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District is piloting vending machines that sell full meals, allowing students to skip the cafeteria, said Zetta Reicker, the district’s assistant director for student nutrition services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified used grant money to roll out mobile food carts at its high schools, creating more places to get food on campus. At San Diego High School, where 2,700 students attend five smaller thematic schools, there are 22 service locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with multiple service locations, students say waits still can be too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Saelee, now a senior at Oakland High School, said he decides what to eat based on which of the school’s seven service areas has the shortest line. The Friday before school let out for summer, a horde of students blocked his view of his chosen cafeteria window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess tacos?” he said with a shrug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with this approach, Saelee said he typically waits 20 to 25 minutes because people cut in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland High, students in one line punch in their ID numbers, so that staff can track free and reduced-price meals, and then receive tickets they’ll exchange for lunches in other lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s never enough time,” said Yvette Santos, who graduated in June. “You have to get in a line to get a ticket, then get into another line to get the food. Then your food’s cold when you get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools short on time often serve grab-and-go meals and preportioned foods. Both options can be found at Bravo in Los Angeles, which has a 30-minute lunch period and serves 1,000 lunches per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 200 students ate grab-and-go lunches when they took standardized tests this spring and could not leave their classrooms, said Bob Milner, the school’s cafe manager. The meals are also a popular choice for students who have tutoring or club meetings during lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates say quick, portable meals are a step in the wrong direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not what we want to teach children to do – to grab their food and eat it in the car or eat it on the run,” said Zenobia Barlow, executive director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, which has advocated for school food reform. “To get a healthy meal and sit down and just eat it like a human being – (it) seems like we really need to take a look at that and try our best to preserve some quality in that experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Sharelette Rodgers, a food services manager for Oakland Unified, time is not a problem. “The kids would just rather go to the fast-food places,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or they would rather not eat at all. “Sometimes, I don’t eat because I don’t like it,” Cedric Bonsol, now a junior at Bravo, said of school lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In school after school, the primary complaint students have about lunch is not the time but the food itself. Binkle, of L.A. Unified, said the issues are related. He likened the school cafeteria to a restaurant trying to serve 2,000 meals in 20 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had 40 minutes, then we’d only have to prepare half and serve half at a time,” he said. “You get much higher-quality food, you get much fresher food, because it’s being cooked more to order than … scrambled eggs on the buffet that have been sitting there for six hours. The longer you stretch it out, the more personalized the service and the quality of food is improved.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/14605/short-school-lunch-periods-leave-kids-hungry","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_299"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_12625","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_11883":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_11883","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"11883","score":null,"sort":[1365012423000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"small-farmer-in-central-valley-takes-his-strawberries-farm-to-school","title":"Small Farmer In Central Valley Takes His Strawberries 'Farm to School'","publishDate":1365012423,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/people/rebecca-plevin\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Plevin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/reedley-farmer-goes-farm-school-strawberries\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/04/03/small-farmer-in-central-valley-takes-his-strawberries-farm-to-school/paesaephan_rebeccaplevin_kvpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11889\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11889\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/04/PaeSaephan_RebeccaPlevin_KVPR-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"Pao Saephan's strawberries are just days away from being fully ripe. (Rebecca Plevin/Valley Public Radio)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pao Saephan's strawberries are just days away from being fully ripe. (Rebecca Plevin/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pao Saephan crouches down in his sun-drenched field. He cups a red jewel in his hand. In a few more days, his strawberries will be fully ripe. He’ll pick them once they are rosy red from stem to tip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want all the strawberries, to be full ripe, full flavor, with 100 percent sugar in them,” says Saephan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, he would sell the fresh berries at his roadside stand, in the small town of Reedley, southeast of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The goal is for children to “experience fresh produce and make healthy eating choices over a lifetime.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But this year, he will sell the bulk of his berries directly to the Fresno Unified School District. He says he is thrilled to share the fruits of his labor with Central Valley students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have farmed a long time, but this is my passion, to be farming something that feeds local,” says Saephan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saephan is the first small farmer to sell his produce directly to Fresno Unified. He could pave the way for other small farmers to begin selling their produce directly with the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Alvarado, food services director for Fresno Unified notes that the district is located in the \"produce and vegetable capital\" of the world. “We have been taking advantage of that,\" he says, \"but now it’s taking it to another level, from the farmer, when the occasion is right, and it meets our needs. Strawberries were just a natural for us.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado hopes every Fresno Unified student can taste Saephan’s strawberries at their peak. His goal, he said, is for children to “experience fresh produce and make healthy eating choices over a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he acknowledged that there are several barriers to linking small farms and large school districts. For logistical reasons, it’s often easier for school districts to buy produce from large distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some school districts like to work with one company: you go to the grocery store, not the cucumber stand, the broccoli stand, the strawberry stand,” Alvarado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said another challenge is that some small farmers are not trained in food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pao is our first step to truly go to the farm – we have worked with other farmers, this is one where the farmer was lacking all the food safety certifications,\" Alvarado said. \"We’re breaking new ground with Pao, and learning what it takes for him to be certified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those barriers, Alvarado said there are many benefits to buying produce, and especially strawberries, from local farmers. Among those is the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district serves about 85,000 meals a day. Alvarado’s goal is for each of those meals to include three or four of Saephan’s beauties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A locally grown strawberry that we buy from the farmer more than likely will be more cost effective for the district,\" Alvarado said. \"But that’s not the driver.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond dollars, strawberries are one of those fruits that just taste better when they’re picked fully ripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driver is, fresh products that taste good are more likely to be eaten than products that don’t,\" Alvarado said. \"If they don’t eat it, we’re wasting money.\" Plus fruits and vegetables in school lunches that end up in the trash aren't helping children's overall nutrition either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified students should start seeing Saephan’s berries on the menu in May.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Pao Saephan crouches down in his sun-drenched field. He cups a red jewel in his hand. In a few more days, his strawberries will be fully ripe. He’ll pick them once they are rosy red from stem to tip.\r\n\r\n“We want all the strawberries, to be full ripe, full flavor, with 100 percent sugar in them,” says Saephan.\r\n\r\nIn the past, he would sell the fresh berries at his roadside stand, in the small town of Reedley, southeast of Fresno. But this year, he will sell the bulk of his berries directly to the Fresno Unified School District. He says he is thrilled to share the fruits of his labor with Central Valley students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1365051015,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":621},"headData":{"title":"Small Farmer In Central Valley Takes His Strawberries 'Farm to School' | KQED","description":"Pao Saephan crouches down in his sun-drenched field. He cups a red jewel in his hand. 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He says he is thrilled to share the fruits of his labor with Central Valley students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11883 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=11883","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/04/03/small-farmer-in-central-valley-takes-his-strawberries-farm-to-school/","disqusTitle":"Small Farmer In Central Valley Takes His Strawberries 'Farm to School'","path":"/stateofhealth/11883/small-farmer-in-central-valley-takes-his-strawberries-farm-to-school","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/people/rebecca-plevin\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Plevin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/reedley-farmer-goes-farm-school-strawberries\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/04/03/small-farmer-in-central-valley-takes-his-strawberries-farm-to-school/paesaephan_rebeccaplevin_kvpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11889\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11889\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/04/PaeSaephan_RebeccaPlevin_KVPR-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"Pao Saephan's strawberries are just days away from being fully ripe. (Rebecca Plevin/Valley Public Radio)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pao Saephan's strawberries are just days away from being fully ripe. (Rebecca Plevin/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pao Saephan crouches down in his sun-drenched field. He cups a red jewel in his hand. In a few more days, his strawberries will be fully ripe. He’ll pick them once they are rosy red from stem to tip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want all the strawberries, to be full ripe, full flavor, with 100 percent sugar in them,” says Saephan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, he would sell the fresh berries at his roadside stand, in the small town of Reedley, southeast of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The goal is for children to “experience fresh produce and make healthy eating choices over a lifetime.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But this year, he will sell the bulk of his berries directly to the Fresno Unified School District. He says he is thrilled to share the fruits of his labor with Central Valley students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have farmed a long time, but this is my passion, to be farming something that feeds local,” says Saephan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saephan is the first small farmer to sell his produce directly to Fresno Unified. He could pave the way for other small farmers to begin selling their produce directly with the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Alvarado, food services director for Fresno Unified notes that the district is located in the \"produce and vegetable capital\" of the world. “We have been taking advantage of that,\" he says, \"but now it’s taking it to another level, from the farmer, when the occasion is right, and it meets our needs. Strawberries were just a natural for us.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado hopes every Fresno Unified student can taste Saephan’s strawberries at their peak. His goal, he said, is for children to “experience fresh produce and make healthy eating choices over a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he acknowledged that there are several barriers to linking small farms and large school districts. For logistical reasons, it’s often easier for school districts to buy produce from large distributors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some school districts like to work with one company: you go to the grocery store, not the cucumber stand, the broccoli stand, the strawberry stand,” Alvarado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said another challenge is that some small farmers are not trained in food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pao is our first step to truly go to the farm – we have worked with other farmers, this is one where the farmer was lacking all the food safety certifications,\" Alvarado said. \"We’re breaking new ground with Pao, and learning what it takes for him to be certified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those barriers, Alvarado said there are many benefits to buying produce, and especially strawberries, from local farmers. Among those is the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district serves about 85,000 meals a day. Alvarado’s goal is for each of those meals to include three or four of Saephan’s beauties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A locally grown strawberry that we buy from the farmer more than likely will be more cost effective for the district,\" Alvarado said. \"But that’s not the driver.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond dollars, strawberries are one of those fruits that just taste better when they’re picked fully ripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driver is, fresh products that taste good are more likely to be eaten than products that don’t,\" Alvarado said. \"If they don’t eat it, we’re wasting money.\" Plus fruits and vegetables in school lunches that end up in the trash aren't helping children's overall nutrition either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Unified students should start seeing Saephan’s berries on the menu in May.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/11883/small-farmer-in-central-valley-takes-his-strawberries-farm-to-school","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_280","stateofhealth_299","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_11889","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_6758":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_6758","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"6758","score":null,"sort":[1340755622000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sometimes-when-school-is-out-so-is-the-food","title":"Sometimes When School Is Out, So Is The Food","publishDate":1340755622,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6792\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Chico-truck-summer.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-6792\" title=\"Kids line up for a free summer meal through a Chico Unified School District program. (Photo: Patrice Chamberlain)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/06/Chico-truck-summer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids line up for a free summer meal through a Chico Unified School District program. (Photo: Patrice Chamberlain)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To understand some of the powerful hunger issues in our state, go no further than the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ymcasv.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley YMCA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Y runs summer youth programs in Gilroy. Vice president of programming and community development Mary Hoshiko Haughey says last summer they had a boy in the middle school group who wasn't eating his lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was the first day of the program, and our staff asked 'Why aren’t you eating?' 'What would you like?'\" Haughey recalled. \"And he said, 'I can’t eat because I need to make sure my brother and sister are eating. Do they have food in their program too? Otherwise I have to save it for them.' And finally we put him on the phone with them at another site and they said 'yes, we’re eating,' so he finally did too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haughey paused. \"It’s an example of the adult issues that our young children are taking on. He wasn’t going to eat unless he knew his siblings would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also an example of the importance of the summer meal programs that are offered throughout the state. Some school-based programs directly continue the work of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/lunch/\" target=\"_blank\">School Lunch Program \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.summerfood.usda.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Food Service Program\u003c/a> that serves free and reduced meals to low income students throughout the year. Others are sponsored by food banks or summer youth program sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley Y is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=e9194a1c2ef84a68a48b4d71dea8b2ce&URL=http%3a%2f%2fccrwf.org%2fsummer-meal-coalition%2f\" target=\"_blank\">California Summer Meal Coalition\u003c/a>, which is working to increase awareness of the USDA summer nutrition programs offered through the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, says Patrice Chamberlain who works with the coalition, is that there are not enough sites serving the meals. Last year the state COULD have received $36 million more in federal reimbursements had more sites signed onto the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School budget cuts, she says, are making things worse. \"More school districts have been faced with a dwindling budget where they’ve had to cut summer school programs and there has been a decline in participation in summer meal programs,\" Chamberlain says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">He said, \"I can’t eat because I need to make sure my brother and sister are eating. Do they have food in their program too? Otherwise I have to save it for them.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cfpa.net/sowa-2011\" target=\"_blank\">A recent report \u003c/a>by \u003ca href=\"http://cfpa.net/\" target=\"_blank\">California Food Policy Advocates\u003c/a> tracked the number of children in federally funded summer nutrition programs and found the number of California students served in July 2011 declined six percent from June 2010, nearly 30 percent compared to July 2008 and over 50 percent from July 2002. They tied it directly to cuts in school summer programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain says that's why the coalition is \u003ca href=\"//ccrwf.org/summer-meal-coalition/webinars/webinars-how-to-start-or-expand-a-summer-meal-program/\" target=\"_blank\">working to get the meal programs in other locations\u003c/a>. Last year, for example, the city of Oakland worked with the Alameda County Community Food Bank to serve summer meals at libraries in low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tom Torlakson has been\u003ca href=\"http://ccrwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Letter-from-SSPI-TorlaksonCBOs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> working to spread the word\u003c/a> about the need for summer meal locations. The awareness campaign may be paying off. This summer, the California Department of Education has indicated that there is a 60 percent increase in the number of summer meal sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain says part of the reason to prioritize this issue is the summer connection to childhood obesity. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.summerlearning.org/resource/resmgr/Healthy_Summers_/NSLA_Healthy_Summers_for_Kid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new report\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.summerlearning.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Summer Learning Association\u003c/a> found that kids gain weight two to three times faster during the summer than during the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the structure of the school year, and the additional barriers that impact many low-income neighborhoods, access to healthy food is really limited,\" Chamberlain says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sh/sn/summersites12.asp\" target=\"_blank\">This map\u003c/a> has a comprehensive list of summer meal sites in California.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1341595392,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":639},"headData":{"title":"Sometimes When School Is Out, So Is The Food | KQED","description":"To understand some of the powerful hunger issues in our state, go no further than the Silicon Valley YMCA. 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Last year the state COULD have received $36 million more in federal reimbursements had more sites signed onto the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School budget cuts, she says, are making things worse. \"More school districts have been faced with a dwindling budget where they’ve had to cut summer school programs and there has been a decline in participation in summer meal programs,\" Chamberlain says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">He said, \"I can’t eat because I need to make sure my brother and sister are eating. Do they have food in their program too? 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Last year, for example, the city of Oakland worked with the Alameda County Community Food Bank to serve summer meals at libraries in low-income neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent Tom Torlakson has been\u003ca href=\"http://ccrwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Letter-from-SSPI-TorlaksonCBOs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> working to spread the word\u003c/a> about the need for summer meal locations. The awareness campaign may be paying off. This summer, the California Department of Education has indicated that there is a 60 percent increase in the number of summer meal sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamberlain says part of the reason to prioritize this issue is the summer connection to childhood obesity. 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