Get Up And Do Something: 'We are hungry': Kids lament new lunch guidelines in video

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'We are hungry': Kids lament new lunch guidelines in video Sep 27th 2012, 11:01 Not even a month has passed since new federal guidelines mandating healthy school lunches went into effect, and already there's been pushback from students who insist that the healthier, scaled-down meals don't provide enough calories to power them through the afternoon. Student athletes, in particular, say that the new 850-calorie limit leaves them famished and too tired to make it through sports team practices. "We would notice a drop in energy around 1 to 2, so we would get hungry right again," Callahan Grund, a junior at Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas, told TODAY. "In the past that hasn't happened as much."

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