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Goodbye candy bars and sports drinks. Hello baked chips and diet sodas....

Back-to-school time means shopping for school or dorm room supplies, picking classes and savoring summer's waning days.

... That makes it all the more exciting to find one policy that does seem to be working: California’s strict school nutrition standards — soda bans, low calorie foods in cafeterias and limits on fat content — appear to have had a significant impact on what teens there eat.

To send your snot-nosed, hacking child to school or not: That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to miss yet another round of critical meetings, deadlines or social obligations to nurse him at home or suffer the slings and arrows of angry fellow parents . . . . Well, you get the picture.

The study found that removing soda only prompted students to buy sports drinks and other sugar-laden beverages instead.

The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 is intended to provide more healthful school meals to a great number of students.With his wife by his side, President Obama on Monday signed the child nutrition bill, strongly pushed by the first lady, who has made nutrition part of her campaign to help the young get healthy.

School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.

Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.

For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees.