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Can School Cafeterias Provide Quality, Nutritious Foods That Kids Will Buy and Eat, Turn a Profit and Not Contribute To Rising Obesity Rates In Young People?

Hoosick Falls Central High School
Hoosick Falls Central School District
Hoosick Falls, New York

Members of the senior class from Hoosick Falls High School in Rensselaer County discuss school lunch programs, nutrition and childhood obesity with Sandy Sheedy, NYS Education Department, Child Nutrition Program Administration; Margaret Lamb, School Lunch Program Director, Saratoga Springs City School District; and Amy Koren-Roth, NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Nutrition Risk Reduction - Childhood Obesity Prevention Unit.

Moderated by WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

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