In an interview published Tuesday in the Huffington Post, United Fresh Vice President of Nutrition and Health Dr. Lorelei DiSogra discussed United's Salad Bar in Every School campaign with entrepreneur, author and activist Lynda Resnick.

Resnick: … For our readers, can you describe A Salad Bar in Every School, the program that United Fresh is initiating?

DiSogra: The goal of A Salad Bar in Every School is to increase children's consumption of fruits and vegetables. Kids eat less than half of the amount of fruits and vegetables that they should every day. We believe that there are a number of different strategies that need to be put in place so that schools become a model of healthy eating habits, and school salad bars are an effective strategy to increase kids' consumption.

There've been some research studies done at UCLA [in the early 2000s] by Dr. Wendy Slusser, and we at the National Cancer Institute [where I was at the time] saw her preliminary results and started to engage USDA in this effort around salad bars. There's a history to this whole effort. It's not something that just came about at United Fresh in the last couple of months.

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