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Despite challenges, schools push for healthier meals

Despite financial crunches, outdated federal standards and children who simply think vegetables are yucky, Long Island school food directors strive to make improvements.

Elwood's Delia Neitzel puts snacks in a separate room of the high school cafeteria, so students can't get them on the lunch line. In the elementary schools, a snack cart comes around only after kids have had time to eat their...

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