The 5 Weirdest Policies That Make School Lunches Unhealthy

You'd think school lunch would be a simple issue: feed kids healthy, nutritious foods. A no-brainer, right? Not so much. There's a reason Michelle Obama has made it her personal mission as First Lady to overhaul children's health in this country and the food that is served up in our schools.

It's no easy task, and some of the biggest obstacles to improving the nutrition available to kids in schools are a little surprising.

Policies that set nutritional guidelines and control how schools obtain food do not always have child nutrition as the #1 goal.

The cost limitations involved in feeding millions of children every day, the immensity of the administrative bureaucracy, and the industries that have vested interests in maintaining markets in schools all blur the lines of how food priorities are set, and they all make school lunch a touchy subject. Keep reading and take a look at five policies and programs that influence how children in the U.S. are fed during school.