Study: Kids still buy junk food at school
Photo credit: NEWSDAY/Ken Sawchuk | Junk food in a school cafeteria. (June 24, 2003)
Despite efforts to serve healthier meals to school children, roughly half of U.S. elementary school kids can buy junk food at school, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago said cookies, cakes and chips are still sold through school vending machines, cafeterias and snack bars even if they are not served at lunch.
"Kids can get junk food at school,"...
