In front of Aster Public School in Mayur Vihar Phase I, garbage overflowed outside the walls of the dump. The residents of the area have undergone the ordeal over the past week because the cleanliness workers of the East and North corporations have been on strike for not being paid for 3 months. The school children, their parents and surrounding food stalls are affected.

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Child Nutrition Reauthorization has been pursued by Congress. But how will schools operate the food departments with only a $3 lunch reimbursement rate and how can a balance in living wages for staffs with good-quality food for students be ensured? It's a challenge to the Congress to realize how wages, the economy and immigration reforms affect the children’s food.

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More than half of the schools in Singapore are serving healthy meals with less sugar, fat and salt and a fruit raising the prices of food in the school canteens. It is very important for students to eat healthy meals in school. The cooks and canteen staffs are given training on healthy cooking methods like using ovens and grills.

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a peremptory idea of self-preserving behaviour, also known as healthism is growing in the western culture due to politicisation and commercialisation of health issues. A study done by National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia, warns that if you pay extra attention to the probability of dangerous diseases you may suffer in the future, you are probably suffering from what is being termed as 'Angelina Jolie syndrome'.

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Soon to become a national policy, the Food Standards and Safety Authority of India has issued a set of draft nutrition rules on junk food due to the rising obesity-linked diseases among teens. The rules would aim to limit marketing and sale of unhealthy snacks within 50 meters of a school, in lines with similar curbs on tobacco products. As per the draft, private of public schools must have a canteen policy to provide healthy food which is color coded according to its nutritional value.

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