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School Lunches Becoming Healthier, Statistics Indicate The School District of Philadelphia, which has succeeded in making school lunches more nutritious, tested fruit smoothies on students this month. Credit Leslee Sholomskas/School District of Philadelphia Aug. 27,2015 WASHINGTON-The humble school lunch, that staple of most every American child's diet, has become healthier. That was the conclusion of a federal report released Thursday that showed that the nutritional profile of school meals in the United States had improved substantially since higher government standards went into effect in 2012. Nearly 8o percent of schools offered two or more vegetables per meal in 2014, the data showed, up from 62 percent in 2000. Two or more fruits were offered in about 78 percent of schools, up from 68 percent in 2000. About a third of schools now have salad bars. The big questions, of course, are whether students are eating these offerings, and, if so, whether that will help ease the obesity epidemic among the nation's children. Since the 1970s, the prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled, raising the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular problems. But in recent years, health experts have documented small yet promising declines in the rate of childhood which was about 17 percent in 2012, the most recent year the government has measured. Obesity has among the youngest children, as well as among children of low-income families participating in federal food programs. Experts are hoping that better offerings in school lunches move the needle for other children too, though the report measured only offerings of food, not what children were actually eating. The federal health authorities say they plan to release obesity figures for 2014 later this year Students consume up to half their daily calories at school, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released the data. Interviewers visited a nationally representative sample of schools in 2000, 20o6 and 2014. Mostly gone are the days of white bread and canned corn. Canned vegetables are still served, but in far fewer schools. More than half of schools that prepared meals on site used fresh or frozen vegetables instead. For those that still served canned vegetables, 52 percent used low-sodium varieties, up from 10 percent in 20o0. School food experts said the findings fit with what they had seen in districts across the country "Literally, the way the school lunch line looks are different," said Deb Bentzel, senior associate at the Food Trust in Philadelphia, a nonprofit that works to increase access to nutritious food in schools and communities. "It's brighter it's healthier-looking, it's fresher."

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In one of the survey it has been reported that the quality of intake of nutrients in the school meals have been improved since 2012. This happened in the year that is 2012 when the government standard came in to effect.

Now the schools have salad bars and they focus on the vegetables and atleast two vegetables are being served in school. Since 1970, the precedence of the childhood obesity has increased, so the question is that having these nutrients in the meals can prevent children from being ill or having cardiovascular disease. To decrease the childhood obesity and the reduction in the development of any disease related to obesity should be achieved by providing proper nutrients.