Get the junk out of school. Bill passes and we investigate.

Question: How much money does it take to up the health quotient of the food served in our nation's public schools and feed more low-income children?

Answer: $4.5 billion -- over 10 years.

Today, the Senate approved the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" which seeks, among other things, to make food served in public schools more healthy.

Athletic-Minded Traveler has posted on this important topic before:

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Burger versus Salad

I give credit to Wendy's for making salads a big part of the fast food chain's menu.  The burger joint just rolled out four new "premium" salad choices -- adding to the existing four choices.  So salad eaters have 8 choices. Panera Bread is another fast-causal eatery that showcases salads.  And with research lambasting frequent burger eating, substituting a tasty salad for a burger *can* be good for the body -- if you pick the right salad.

And that is the point of this post:  How good/healthy are fast food chain salads?  

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