Healthy school lunch efforts face daunting hurdles
By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - School cafeteria meals like low-fat pizzas with whole grain crust don’t taste too bad to Paola Villatoro, a 17-year-old at Downtown Magnet High School in Los Angeles.
“Some of it is pretty good,” she said.
But West Adams Preparatory School student Alfredo Segura doesn’t like them. “It tastes like prison food,” said Segura, 16, as he and other students ate snacks at a fast-food joint near the school.
Los Angeles Unified School District is an anti-junk-food pioneer, but the obstacles it faces show how difficult it is to change habits shaped by decades of unhealthy eating promoted by the mammoth fast-food industry.
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on May 27th, 2009 and is filed under Children & Nutrition.
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