Schools Making the Grade for Healthy Food

A recent report by the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health showed that schools are making good progress when it comes to offering kids healthier food choices. Of the 34 states surveyed, 63% now refrain from selling soda or fruit drinks that are not 100% juice.

While that's great news what's even better is that this number is up 38% in just one year!

And the schools are going after candy as well as salty, fatty snacks. In 2008, 64% of the secondary schools weren't selling those items compared to 46% in 2006.

These are absolutely necessary steps since about 1/3 of our young children ( in 30 states) are considered either overweight or obese.