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Healthy School Lunches
Many schools are beginning to make the transition into healthier school lunches. Many school districts in Northern Virginia are making nutrition facts avaiable to anyone who is interested in them. These facts being known to public is a recent thing that the school districts have been doing. This may be because of the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994 which required that meal programs that are federally funded enhance their meal requirements in order to suit Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Solutions
One of the biggest solutions to healthy school lunches is the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) because it makes it possible for every school child in the United States to receive a healthy lunch meal every day at school. This program provides the children with at least one third of their Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for key nutrients. These lunches cannot provide more than 30 percent of calories from fat and must not exceed more than 10 percent from saturated fat. Reach from the USDA indicated that children who participated in School Lunch have superior nutritional intakes compared to children who did not participate.