Study: Kids Will Eat Healthy School Food

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) November 26, 2007 -- Maybe getting schoolchildren to eat healthy foods isn't a hopeless struggle. Bucking some common notions, a University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don't necessarily cost schools more to produce.

''The conventional wisdom that you can't serve healthier meals because kids won't eat them is false,'' said Benjamin Senauer, one of three economists who wrote the study.

Previous studies have concluded that students prefer fatty foods and that healthier meals cost more to make, the authors noted.

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