TLN Health News Heads Up: 2 Angry Moms Make School Lunches Film

Documentary Chronicles How Lunches Became Unhealthy
(from TheBostonChannel.com)

WESTON, Conn. -- In Amy Kalafa's ideal world, the processed pizzas and chicken nuggets normally found in school cafeterias would be replaced with meals made from scratch, and fruits and vegetables grown by local farmers or students.While working on a documentary, Kalafa, a Weston resident and veteran independent filmmaker, learned it happens in some parts of the country.But in most others, bags of chips, cookies and snack cakes sit tantalizingly in bins at the end of the lunch line, and most of the meals arrive frozen in the kitchens.That's why she's angry.Kalafa's recently completed film, "Two Angry Moms," chronicles how school lunches became so unhealthy and what some districts are doing to turn around their food programs.

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