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Obama administration pushes school nutrition plan
Photo credit: NEWSDAY/Karen Wiles Stabile | Changes being sought include a push to jettison cookies, cakes, pastries and salty food from school vending machines and cafeteria lines. (June 21, 2006)
The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the administration will seek changes when Congress overhauls the Childhood Nutrition Act.
“Our children deserve better nutrition, and our country’s better and...
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