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'Smart Snacks' regulations cost district nearly $200,000

A school district in Fairbanks, Alaska, is dealing with a $192,000 loss in revenue stemming from healthy snacks regulations on top of a proposed $100,000 budget cut.

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Students petition for nutrition labels on menus

A group of students started a petition at one Chicago university, hoping to improve nutrition labels on menus in the student center.

Covenant Care recently introduced its "Enhanced Dining" service that has an expanded menu of nutritious foods, as well as an ergonomics redesign of their dining rooms based on their clients’ preferences.

NCAA’s rule allowing athletes unlimited access to food and snacks has some schools offering luxurious meals at dining halls and ‘refueling’ stations at training facilities.

Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln set a goal five years ago to reduce childhood obesity rates in Lincoln Public Schools by 10 percent by 2020—LPS has reached that goal six years ahead of schedule. Now the goal is to double that percent.

With the population rising and the demand for protein increasing, producers and operators will need to find enough protein to feed billions more mouths.

Here are five cutting-edge features of Mission Bay Hospital’s high-tech meal order system.

Several schools in McHenry County, Ill., have received awards as part of the national Healthier US School Challenge, which urges the creation of nutrition education programs and increased physical activity.

One school nutrition supervisor says less rushed meal times are crucial to provide students with the opportunity to try different foods.

The University of Michigan says that by 2025 it will purchase at least 20 percent of its food from producers within a 250-mile radius of Ann Arbor.

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