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Not at all, said Lynette Rock, president of the Burbank-based California School Nutrition Association. “The new healthy school lunch meals are still healthy ... schools to serve fat-free or low-fat ...

Currently, schools participating in the National School Lunch Program require milk to be fat-free or low-fat and allow milk to be flavored or unflavored. However, the Whole Milk for Health Kids ...

As a result, the National School Lunch Program restricted milk options to flavored and unflavored skim and low-fat milk, effectively banning whole milk, with exceptions for children with proper ...

This month, a bipartisan group of legislators put forward the Freedom in School Cafeterias and Lunches, or FISCAL, Act, which would expand the definition of milk under the NSLP to include plant ...