Md. schools must offer healthy lunch options

Monday Jan 4th, 2016

Our kids are being poisoned every day in their schools. It's not from lead paint or pipes, but by the food and drinks being served to them — the cheapest to make and deadliest to eat and, in some instances, the same food fed to the inmate populations in our state prisons.

These foods and beverages are loaded with sugar, carbohydrates and harmful preservatives that allow them to be frozen or sit on shelves for months or even years at a time before being served to children. Any kid not eating a packed lunch in school is likely dining on recipes ripe for diabetes, heart disease and obesity — some of the biggest health issues facing our country today.

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