The salad bars were donated as a part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative, which has donated more than 1,440 salad bars serving more than 720,000 children across the US.
As with so many places throughout the US, childhood obesity rates are a serious concern in the state of Iowa. As of 2011, Iowa was named the 20th most obese state in the country, according to the eighth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011 report from the Robert Woodruff Johnson Foundation.
Source: Dole Food Company
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