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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): Estimates suggest that many kids consume at least half their daily calories while at school. The new rules, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are designed to lower the amount of fat, salt and sugar in a child's diet.
Starting next summer, vending machines would not have traditional candy bars or full-fat cookies, for example. High schoolers will only be able to purchase drinks on campus that have fewer than 60 calories in a 12-ounce serving, much less than many sodas.
The regulations, which affect 50 million students, do not cover food sold after school or brought from home or at a fund-raiser.
For more, I am joined by Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
We invited several food and beverage companies, as well as their trade associations, to join us, but they declined our offer.
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