We like to say that food is medicine, yet the nation’s largest daily prescription is written with virtually none of the safeguards that govern drugs. Every year, the National School Lunch Program ...

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I miss the days of buying school supplies and packing lunches for my children. They are grown up now, but I have sweet memories of those back-to-school responsibilities. For parents who pack lunches ...

Students at the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District in California dine on locally sourced fruits and vegetables, homemade pozole (a Mexican stew), and fresh tuna poke bowls. Food in the school ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. The rise of Make America Healthy Again arrived with big promises for kids: an end to chronic disease, ...

An Aroostook County woman’s healthy eating crusade that links farms with local schools is is getting attention from farmers ...

It’s lunch time at Lincoln Crossing Elementary. And today, they’re serving up burgers. But this meal might be a little different than what you’d expect out of a school lunch. “We have our grass-fed ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1264 into law on Wednesday. The bill lays out plans for determining the most "harmful" ultra-processed foods, and removing them from school lunches by 2035.

This ballot initiative asks voters to increase taxes on wealthier Coloradans to raise an additional $95 million to fully fund the Healthy School Meals for All program, which provides free breakfast ...

SACRAMENTO — California will phase out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals over the next decade under a first-in-the-nation law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law seeks to ...