California children get an early start being "health smart."

Food and Nutrition, August, 1993 by Dee Amaden

James says she feels the project, which is nearing completion, has been as success. The providers have been able to make most of the menu adjustments while maintaining adequate or better levels of key nutrients, such as iron and calcium, and keeping percentages of fats and cholesterol at or near target levels.

And the children are catching on. "Hopefully, by making healthy food choices available early," says James, "the children will be used to eating according to the California Daily Food Guide and wont's think twice about eating the healthy food they get at the school cafeteria."