Air date: April 25, 2010

Host: Barbara Lewis

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Interview: Aaron Carroll, director, Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research, Indiana University School of Medicine

The Senate is planning a vote on a revamp of the Child Nutrition Act that was first passed back in 1966.

It's a case of competing interests: nutritionists, the farm lobby, and even First Lady Michelle Obama.

Dr. Aaron Carroll is a regular analyst here on Sound Medicine. He directs the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research and is Associate Director for Children's Health Services Research at the IU School of Medicine.

Additional Resources:

• Lunches from home are cheaper and more nutritious. From the Denver Post.
• An interesting theory why healthy school lunch programs won't work, from mother and Chicago blogger Jackie Tithof Steere.

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