Public Health

Agriculture Department Lowers Nutritional Standards for School Lunches

As the Republicans and the Trump administration continues their assault on anything that the Obama administration did, Secretary Sonny Perdue has set his sights on school lunches.

The Trump administration has loosened nutritional standards aimed at making US school lunches healthier that were championed by former first lady Michelle Obama.

New Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue postponed reductions in sodium, relaxed requirements for whole grains and allowed sweetened flavoured milk back.

One in five US children is obese, the US government says.