Today’s Solutions: July 10, 2025

The US government manages to encourage schoolchildren to eat in a healthier way. Research shows that kids eat more fruit at school, and throw away less food. Childhood obesity is a major problem, and the government introduced guidelines for school meals in 2012: more vegetables, more fruit, fewer unhealthy snacks, more nutritional quality. That works, a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut shows. The percentage of students choosing fruit in the cafeteria increased from 54% to 66%. Critics of the government regulations thought kids would throw away more food when getting more healthy options, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Instead, they seem to through away less food.

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