public and private schools: Implement and evaluate healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices within their schools/Districts Create supportive environments for healthy eating and physical activity Provide healthy school lunches featuring appealing healthy food and drink choices in- and outside the provided lunch program Establish physical education programs as a cornerstone of the curriculum Implement health education to ensure students gain necessary knowledge of nutrition and fitness Provide students with mental health and social services Partner with families and community members to create and assess healthy eating and physical activities outside of school Employ qualified professionals and provide staff with professional development opportunities in physical education, health education, nutrition services, and mental health The 2010 Healthy Kids Act was part of Michelle Obama "Let’s Move" program. This program authorized the USDA to regulate competitive food (i.e., any food that is not included in a school's lunch program, such as fast food and vending machines) and required more stringent nutritional standards for meals served in cafeterias. These nutritional standards were required to be scientifically founded and in compliance with the published Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Soon schools began to replace food which were high in fat and sodium, and any food that was lacking nutritional value, As replacements, schools implement more fruits, whole grain, vegetables, and low or nonfat milk into provided lunches. By 2014, assessments of the Healthy Kids Act indicated that school-aged kids were beginning to eat more fruits and vegetables while at school. One of these assessments included a Harvard study proving that after the Act was implemented, kids ate 16% more vegetables and 23% more fruit at lunch. The Act remains in place, but has not gone unchallenged: on May 1, 2017, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue signed a proclamation to make nutrition requirements for school meals more flexible. This includes restoring local control of guidelines on whole grains, sodium, and milk. Agricultural subsidies and the United States Farm Bill Approximately once every five years, Congress drafts legislation known as the United States Farm Bill, an umbrella term containing different Bills affecting America's agriculture and food. The Farm Bill focuses on two major thrusts: food stamps and nutritional programs, and income and price supports for commodity crops. The Farm Bill has been touted as one of the biggest contributors to the ongoing obesity epidemic. Over the past decade, the U.S. government's farm policy focused on the