ms. jones cindy thank you for your help.r traversing kansas and enjoying school lunches and school breakfast. if you provided with some that word again, flexibly, what changes would you make? >> i would allow us to go back to the 50% whole grains so we are able to add some of those items back with -- back at the kids enjoy, such as whole-grain biscuits do not have much flavor. i don't know if any of you have tried them. crackers, they taste like sawdust. just some of the simple items just like our children, they love chicken nuggets. all kids love chicken nuggets. now the coding of the chicken nuggets, they no longer like the flavor. just simple things we we could do with that. i would go back to encouraging kids to take fruit and vegetables, which is what we want to do in our district if we keep hearing about, it's just a half a cup. but we have 29,000 students in our district. that's a lot of half of cups. if two-thirds of those kids eat the fruits and vegetables that still 10,000 half of cups that we throw away and overdu

cindy jones of the unified school district 233. i'm especially happy to introduce to the committee ms. jones who serves as the business management coordinator for food service at the public schools in kansas. she has worked for oletha public schools food service for over 20 years. started at 17 as i recall. she serves as the public policy and legislation committee that anywhere the school nutrition association of kansas and has served as vice president and president. i look forward to cindy's testimony. dr. sandra hasink i hope i have that right. . she currently serves as president and hails from wilmington, delaware. the dr. has focused her career on preventing and treating obesity in children. she is a pediatrician at dupont hospital for children where she founded the weight management program in 1988, serve as the director of the pediatric obesity nushive the. the doctor began her medical career at the haven'ter built school of medicine as one of only 12 women in her graduateing class. i look forward to your testimony. we will start with you, sir, mr. r iendeau. >> thank you chairma

ms. cindy jones. i'm especially happy to introduce to the committee ms. jones who serves as the business management coordinator for food service in kansas. she has worked for the olathe public school ss food programs for 20 years. starting at 17 as i recall. she serves as the public policy and legislation committee chair in the school nutrition association of kansas and has served as vice president and president. dr. sandra hassink. i hope i have that right. hassink. who is president of the american academy of pediatrics. currently serves as president, hailed from wilmington delaware. the doctor has focused her career on preventing and treating obesity in children. she is a pediatrician at a hospital for children where she founded the weight management program in 1988 serves as the director of a pediatric obesity initiative. the doctor began her medical career at the vanderbilt school of medicine as one of only 12 women in her graduating class. thank you for being here today. i look forward to all of your testimony. we will start with you sir. >> thank yo

ms. cindy jones who has been our shotgun writer if that's the proper term who has traveled from kansas to be on our second panel. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses regarding their experiences with these programs and i thank them so much for their testimony before the committee and taking their valuable time to come here. i no you turn to my colleague, the chairperson emeritus of the committee, senator stabenow for any opening remarks she may have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i look forward to be working with you on this important issue. we have been talking and looking for ways that we can move forward together and i look forward to working with you on this, as well as the entire committee as we continue the work we began last year to strengthen child nutrition programs. i want to thank the witnesses as well for testifying today. you bring very important perspectives from all sides of the issue, there are a lot of important pieces to this legislation and it's important we hear from you and work together to move forward. as we all know, our children's health and well b

ms. cindy jones who has been our shotgun rider if that is the proper term has traveled from kansas to beng their experiences with these programs and i thank them so much for their testimony before the committee and taking their valuable time to come here. i now turn to my colleague, the chairperson emeritus at the committee, senator stabenow for any opening remark she may have. >> thank you mr. chairman. i look forward to working with you on this important issue. we have been talking and looking for ways we can move forward and i look forward to working with you on this as well as the entire committee. as we continue the work we began last year to strengthen child attrition programs. i want to thank the witnesses as well. you bring perspectives from all sides of the issue. there's a lot of important pieces to this legislation and it's important to hear from you and work together to move forward. as we all know our children's health and well-being really are at a crossroads. obesity rates in children has tripled in the last 30 years. today, one in three american children and teens are ove

ms. miss jones cindy, thank you for your help in our traversing kansas and enjoying the school.u were provided with some flexibility what changes would you make it back. >> i would allow i would allow us to go back to the 50 percent whole-grain so that we are able to add some of those items back at the kids enjoy such as whole-grain biscuits do not have much flavor i don't know if any of you have tried them. crackers they taste like sawdust, some simple items come our children like chicken nuggets now with the coding on the chicken nuggets they no longer like the flavor just simple, little things that we could do. i would go back to encouraging kids to take fruits and vegetables. we keep hearing about it is just a half a cup but we have 29,000 students in our district. that is a lot of half a cup. if two thirds of those kids eat fruits and vegetables that is still 10000 that we throw away. over a year that is 1.7 million. in our in our district we want the kids to eat the fruits and vegetables. we have unlimited fruits of a investable's. we go into schools all the time encouragi