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Article: More seats at the table.(American School Food Service Association urges expansion of school lunch program)(Brief Article)
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- Restaurants & Institutions
- Article date:
- August 15, 2003
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The most effective way to counter obesity in children is to introduce them to healthful eating habits as early as possible. So argued the American School Food Service Association (ASFSA) in lobbying Congress for the elimination of reduced-price school meals and expansion of access to government-subsidized free meals. "For many children, particularly those from low-income families, school meals are their only opportunity to eat nutritious meats," Gaye Lynn MacDonald, president of Alexandria, Va.-based ASFSA, told a Congressional ...