This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Whole, skim, or soy? The congressional battle over milk in ...

Federal lawmakers have revived bills that would allow whole and 2% milk to be served again in schools, in addition to the skim and low-fat milk mandated since 2012. A U.S. Senate committee hosted a ...

Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010. It required schools to serve meals with less fat, sugar and sodium, and more protein, whole ...

A key item on the school lunch menu may change due to a surprising bipartisan ... the United States Department of Agriculture ...

Federal lawmakers are considering bills to reintroduce whole and 2% milk in school meals, a move that could reverse a decade-old policy aimed at reducing childhood obesity.

Starting in 2012, whole and 2% milk was not permitted in school meals because those products ... Americans older than age 2 consume low-fat or fat-free dairy. The 2025-2030 dietary guidelines ...

Legislators are working to bring milk choice back to schools, including more nutritious milk options such as whole and 2% milk. The Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing Tuesday morning on ...

More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American ... In 2010, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which aimed to reduce ...