"I had offered an amendment that would have had a wellness policy developed by the Institute on Medicine that would have applied to all schools all over America."
"Have you seen over your experience that schools are shifting more and more of these indirect costs to the School Lunch Program?"
"One welcome sign of help came in the President's recently released budget in which the President proposed $1 billion per year in additional funding for child nutrition."
"I have said many times, and I will keep saying it, that if we are going to have meaningful health reform in this country, what our kids eat and how they exercise and whether they exercise is a big par..."
"I think maybe some financial incentives and bonuses might be a thing that we could do."
"A stronger targeted investment in those programs must be a part of a comprehensive Federal response to poor nutrition among our children."
"Overweight, obesity, even among our children have reached epidemic levels in America, raising the specter that our children will have shorter life spans than we have for the first time in history."
"I think the important part of your story is that you did it and you didn't give up."
"I feel we must reorient our health care system so that it focuses on preventing diet-related illnesses and promoting good nutrition and wellness."
"I think somehow we are going to have to take a look at that and how we might want to address it."
"Well, I just raise the question, if 16 percent is the mean on this, then I raise the question of why other school districts can't meet the mean if they are higher than that."