The New Food Fighters
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Since scientists began linking the rise in childhood obesity to high-fat, high-sugar diets, alarm bells have been ringing about the sorry state of school lunches in the United States. In 2005 predictions that, for the first time in the nation's history, children were not expected to live longer than their parents galvanized a movement of activists, parents, and health professionals who lobbied for change.
Since then new guidelines attempt to bar those "ketchup is a vegetable" loopholes. In 2006 legislation began requiring that every school district develop its own "wellness plan."