The USDA is proposing new nutrition standards for school meals that would impose the first limit on added sugar in lunches and breakfasts served by school cafeterias.
Then in the fall of 2025, it would implement limits on high-sugar products like yogurts and cereal, as well as chocolate milk or other flavored milk. It also reduces the weekly sodium limit for breakfast and lunch by 10%. Allowable sodium limits would continue to drop in the years that follow.
In 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act overhauled school meal nutrition standards under the Obama administration. Afterward,found that the risk of obesity declined each year among children living in poverty, showing a 47% reduction in obesity prevalence in 2018 compared to what would have been expected without the passage of the act. There was no significant association found between the legislation and childhood obesity trends overall.
Lott was one of the lead authors of an assessment that examined what the health impact would be if school meal nutrition standards were aligned with the current dietary guidelines for Americans, which would require 100% of grain products to be whole grain and for fewer than 10% of calories to come from added sugar now as opposed to several years in the future.
The Sugar Association, a trade organization, also took issue with the proposed rules, arguing that limiting sugar in foods such as cereal and yogurt will result in other deficiencies.
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