Squeezed school lunch times shortchange kids’ nutrition
When school districts cut lunch to 20 minutes or less to accommodate more instruction time, students’ nutrition may suffer.
When school districts cut lunch to 20 minutes or less to accommodate more instruction time, students’ nutrition may suffer.
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Frank Hu, chair of the Department of Nutrition, and co-authors including Gina McCarthy, director of C-CHANGE, looked at whether plant-based meat alternatives can be part of a healthy and sustainable diet.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health nutrition researchers Walter Willett and David Ludwig spoke to the Boston Globe Magazine for an August 25, 2019 article exploring current trends in healthy diet advice.
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