Sacramento area schools try to serve healthier food
Kids are lining up for sausage pizzas and corn dogs at Sacramento elementary schools, and that's just for breakfast.
Strict school nutrition guidelines pending in the U.S. Senate may push those unhealthy breakfasts and other salty, processed foods off school lunch menus.
The issue of school meals has gone prime time in recent months. First lady Michelle Obama has been making appearances across the country and on TV to bring attention to childhood obesity, which she links to an underfunded school nutrition system and diminishing physical education programs.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has irked many cafeteria workers with his reality show that highlights unhealthy food served in American schools.
Oliver wants to change the standards in many elementary school cafeterias, where processed entrees arrive frozen, precooked and waiting
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