Hi Friend,

We did not want you to miss out on this opportunity to support the
exciting, healthy nutrition standards recently proposed by the
Biden-Harris administration for the National School Lunch and School
Breakfast programs.

[ [link removed] ]→ Take action now - Tell the Biden Administration that you support the
new healthier school nutrition standards they have proposed!

Moms, families, and caregivers are welcoming the news about these new
standards for school meals, so we wanted to give you one more chance to
show your support!

-Jessica, Elyssa, Hanna and the whole MomsRising & MamásConPoder team

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Date: Feb 23, 2023, 3:03 p.m.
From: Jessica, MomsRising.org ([email protected])
To: Friend
Subject: SIGN NOW: Support healthier school meals!

 


Support new standards likely to improve child nutrition, food security and
academic performance.
[ [link removed] ]Take Action Now
[ [link removed] ]TAKE ACTION

Dear Friend,

[ [link removed] ]Would you like to see healthier, more nutritious school meals served up
in your child’s school cafeteria? You (Yes, YOU! :) now have a window of
opportunity to make that happen by supporting the nutrition standards just
proposed by the Biden-Harris administration for the National School Lunch
and School Breakfast programs. 

[ [link removed] ] → Take action now - Tell the Biden Administration that you support the
new healthier school nutrition standards they have proposed!

**When you click through to sign, you will also have the ability to add a
personal experience, if you have one. Sharing your family’s experience
with school meals will help to demonstrate why these new nutrition
standards matter.

These scientifically-based nutrition standards propose to help children be
healthy by limiting sugar, increasing whole grains, and lowering sodium in
school meals, including school lunches. [1] They will also go a long way
towards reducing children’s risk of developing heart disease, type 2
diabetes, and other health conditions. [2] The new meal nutrition
standards will be implemented gradually over multiple years to give school
nutrition programs plenty of time to implement the changes. 

MomsRising is going to submit a letter to the Biden-Harris Administration
supporting these new science-based nutrition standards. [ [link removed] ]Can you join
our letter?

SIGN our letter to the Biden Administration to say “We support these new
science-based nutrition standards for making school meals healthier!” 

The proposed standards, which align with the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines
for Americans (DGA), will lead to healthier food for the many
schoolchildren who rely on school meals to learn and grow. [3] For many
families struggling to put food on the table, school breakfast and lunch
are often the most reliable meals of the day for children and the best
chance that these children will have to eat a well-rounded healthy meal. A
new assessment even shows that aligning school meal nutrition standards
with the 2020-2025 DGA is likely to improve child nutrition, increase
student participation in school meals, and improve both food security and
academic performance. [ [link removed] ] 

[4]Quick signature: Add your name to our letter of support for nutrition
standards likely to improve both food security and academic performance
for schoolchildren across the country! 

The proposed standards to protect kids’ health will: 

* Introduce added sugar limits for school breakfast and lunch, starting
with sugar limits on certain high-sugar products like breakfast
cereals and yogurt, and later phasing in a limit on the total amount
of added sugar in all meals and snacks; 
* Increase whole grains, requiring at least 80% of the weekly grains in
school breakfast and lunch to be grain-rich;
* Reduce sodium gradually, aligning more closely to the FDA voluntary
standards of lowering sodium levels; 
* Strengthen the Buy American requirements in school meals;
* Support schools in using more locally grown foods;
* Invest in small and rural schools to help them improve their school
meal nutritional quality; and
* Seek input on how to include more culturally appropriate foods in
meals served to American Indian and Alaskan Native students. [ [link removed] ]

[5]***Don’t forget to sign on! Add your name to our letter to show your
support for healthier nutrition standards! 

Together we are a powerful voice for children and families! 

-Jessica, Elyssa, Hanna and the whole MomsRising/MamásConPoder team

 

References:

[1] [ [link removed] ]Biden Administration Seeks to Toughen School Nutrition Standards

[2] [ [link removed] ]CDC Childhood Nutrition Facts

[3] [ [link removed] ]Dietary Guidelines for Americans

[4] [ [link removed] ]Rapid health impact assessment on changes to school nutrition
standards to align with     2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans 

[5] [ [link removed] ]FRAC applauds USDA for improved nutrition standards


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