New recommendations made on making school breakfast, lunches more nutritious

Just weeks before Congress is set to take up the expired Child Nutrition Act, there are new recommendations on how the nation’s schools can make breakfast and lunch programs more nutritious.

The Institute of Medicine says new federal standards are needed to combat soaring obesity and diabetes in children.
 
The agency is proposing sweeping changes to federally subsidized school meals. 
 
They include boosting fruit and vegetables and whole grain products, offering only skim and 1 percent milk, and lowering sodium levels and fat intake.
   
The Department of Agriculture will decide whether to implement the nutritional recommendations.