nutrition

Agencies and organizations like the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Utah Food Bank are helping schools provide free summer meals.

In the Southwest, tribal health organizations are finding ways to counter the factors — including the lack of access to clean drinking water — that contribute to high rates of childhood obesity in Native communities.

Since 2020, K-12 students across the country have been able to get school meals for free. That federal program ended this school year, but some people want to keep it going.

Cafeteria workers said students can wait up to 20 minutes for food at West High School in Salt Lake City.

Nearly 700,000 people nationwide could lose food stamps under new federal rules that tighten work requirements, including a small but vulnerable group of…

School is out for many children in Utah, and that means some of them are not getting the free meals they got during the school year. To fill that need,…

A new study shows that children increase their fruit and vegetable intake if they eat school lunch after recess. The study was conducted by researchers at…