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More Healthy Meals at School Would Advance Planetary Health

LONDON, UK, December 24, 2025 (ENS) – Today only one in five children in the world receives meals at school. Yet, healthy, sustainable school meals could “cut undernourishment, reduce diet-related deaths and lower environmental impacts,” finds a new modelling study led by a professor at University College London. […]

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Whole Milk, Plant Milks Welcomed Into U.S. Schools

WASHINGTON, DC, June 4, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee has advanced provisions that will make it easier for students to access nondairy milk options in schools. The changes, included in the amended Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act (S.222), remove key barriers that have long prevented students, especially those who are lactose intolerant, from receiving a nutritionally appropriate beverage option at school.   […]