2007 School Lunch Report Card Released by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Overweight and obesity, and the diseases that accompany them, have become epidemics in the United States. A recent report published by a research team at Johns Hopkins University predicts that if current trends continue, by the year 2015, 75 percent of all Americans, including 24 percent of all children and adolescents, will be overweight or obese. While there may be multiple reasons for these problems, some societal factors play a particularly significant role. School lunch is one of these.

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