Lunch-rules advocate blasts objections as more fiction than fact

An advocate of legislating better health for children has disputed reports of detrimental side effects from the current National School Lunch Program rules, blasting the assertions as urban myths.

Included are reports that student athletes are not getting enough to eat, a black market for salt is developing in school cafeterias, and that kids don’t like what they’re being served, Dana Woldow wrote on the alternative San Francisco website BeyondChron.org.

The “craziest school lunch myth yet,” she writes is an assertion by a North Carolina official that spices are banned under the NSLP.

“In reality, the USDA, which oversees school meal programs, recommends cafeterias provide “spice bars” where students can add unlimited spices to their meals,” wrote Woldow, a familiar proponent in the Bay Area of improving school lunches and childhood eating habits.

Her other assertions about assessments of the NSLP can be found here.