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9-Year-Old Food Blogger Takes on School Lunch

Martha Payne, age 9, was dissatisfied with the lunches served by her primary school in Scotland, so she began documenting her school meals online — with photos and ratings — prompting worldwide attention for her healthy-lunch campaign.

Healthier School Lunches: Will They Actually Change What Kids Eat?

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Is serving more veggies really going to persuade kids to eat them?

The Sad State of American Kids’ Food Environments

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Nearly half of all American children and teens are overweight or obese, according to government statistics, and a large part of the problem may be lack of access to healthy foods in kids’ environments.

Is School Lunch Making Your Kids Fat?

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In addition to the usual contributors to child obesity — excessive TV watching and indulging in sugary sodas, for instance — a new study finds another major culprit: eating school lunches.

School lunch helping make Americans too fat to enlist?

More than a quarter of all Americans between the ages of 17 to 24 are too overweight to join the military, according to a new report highlighted by the Associated Press. That many Americans are too tubby to meet the basic entry requirements for military service isn’t new—in 2008 roughly 12,000 would-be soldiers failed the [...]