Healthy Lifestyle Initiative

Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

"Nutrition Rules"

Excerpt from May 2008 article from National Congress of State Legislators.

"School nutrition legislation can help provide children with healthy choices, establish good lifelong eating habits and get food to those who are hungry, while bringing federal meal reimbursement money into states.  Studies show that children will choose healthier foods when given the option, and well-nourished students do better in school.

“We’re concerned about health care and obesity. By making healthy foods available, we can start avoiding the problems that cost so much in the long run,” Dostis urges. “Inadequate nutrition and obesity affect the overall health of a child and can increase long-term health costs.”"