Sentences with phrase «school lunch program drink»

Other studies have found that kids in the national school lunch program drink more milk and eat fewer snack foods, sweets and sweetened beverages than others.

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Schools participating in the National School Lunch Program must serve milk, and CPS officials say the only way a student can receive a substitute drink is for a doctor to say he or she has a milk allergy.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

The USDA reports that children who participate in the federally - subsidized lunch program are four times as likely to drink milk at school than other children.

Lactose - intolerant children could get enough calcium by drinking alternatives such as soy milk or calcium - fortified juices, but the federally funded program, which provides free meals to needy children, won't reimburse schools for a lunch if they substitute nondairy alternatives for milk.