Sentences with phrase «new meal standards»

But just yesterday, a new report was released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which looked at the nutritional profile of more than 1.7 million school meals, selected by Washington state middle and high school students both before and after the implementation of the new meal standards.

But if the story is trumped up and misleading, it only does damage to the many, many school districts out there working hard to implement the new meal standards — and gain student acceptance of healthier food.

lRaise the federal reimbursement by 6 cents per lunch for school districts that comply with new meals standards to be issued by the Agriculture Department.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

She tells us trash cans are «overflowing» with healthful food, but did she read three recent studies — from the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Connecticut and the Baylor College of Medicine — which found no increased plate waste due to the implementation of the new meal standards?

School lunch participation did not change following implementation of the new meal standards, with 47 % participation (range, 40.4 % -49.5 %) before the policy was implemented and 46 % participation (range, 39.1 % -48.2 %) afterward.

There was negligible difference in student meal participation following implementation of the new meal standards, with 47 % meal participation (range, 40.4 % -49.5 %) prior to the implemented policy and 46 % participation (range, 39.1 % -48.2 %) afterward.

There was negligible difference in student meal participation following implementation of the new meal standards with 47 % meal participation (range, 40.4 % -49.5 %) meal participation prior to the implemented policy and 46 % participation (range, 39.1 % -48.2 %) afterward.

She tells us trash cans are «overflowing» with healthful food, but did she read three recent studies — from the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Connecticut and the Baylor College of Medicine, which found no increased plate waste due to the implementation of the new meal standards?

I am in partial support of the position paper because I believe nutrition doesn't matter if it's not consumed and we found our participation going down since the new meal standards.