A new report calls for dramatic changes in the meals served to school children, including offering kids a greater variety of fruits and vegetables, serving 1% and skim milk instead of whole and 2% milk, and limiting sodium and calories.
These changes could cost more, but the investment would be worth it because it could help improve kids' eating habits and overall health, says Virginia Stallings, chairman of the expert panel that prepared the Institute of Medicine report.
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