School Lunches Get A Makeover

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Students returning to school this fall noticed one big
change: what they were being served for lunch in the cafeteria has been altered
significantly. New guidelines for the National School Lunch Program call for
more vegetables, fruits and whole grains in an effort to reduce obesity and
diabetes. It’s a great idea in theory, but some students and their parents are
not pleased with the size of lunches and the choices being offered.

Laurie Colgan, Director of Child Nutrition for the
Department of Education and Washington West Supervisory Union Superintendent
Brigid Scheffert discuss how the new guidelines are being implemented and
greeted in the state’s school cafeterias.

Also on the program, singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell is
about to embark on her Vermont Barnstorming Tour. She stops in the VPR
Performance Studio to sing several songs from here latest release, "Young Man
in America."

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