... required schools to disclose to parents the funds received from vending machine contracts. Nugent served on the Child Health Advisory Committee, which made recommendations to the state Board of Education, including introducing BMI measurements with ...

... Arkansas legislature created Act 1220: A Child Health Advisory Committee to coordinate statewide efforts to combat ... the possible health effects. The Arkansas Child Health Advisory Committee agreed that the BMI information should ...

... industry in opposing a regulation proposed by the Child Health Advisory Committee. It would limit the access via vending machines ... Arkansas' dire situation, Act 1220 created a Child Health Advisory Committee charged with proposing ...

... standards that the state Board of Education could adopt at its next meeting. The standards proposed by the Child Health Advisory Committee are recommendations, not mandates, Huckabee said in a letter to the state Board of Education on Friday ...

... advocates said Arkansas should require, not just recommend, schools follow the guidelines recommended by the Child Health Advisory Committee. The well-being of students in poor, rural school districts may be in danger without forced compliance ...

... leeway in implementing a requirement that high school students get 30 minutes of daily activity. The state Child Health Advisory Committee, created by the same 2003 law that requires schools to report students' body mass index to parents, recommended ...

... candy bar and a soda, which, coincidentally, also is lunch. The governor's endorsement of the state Child Health Advisory Committee recommendation, which will be voted upon by the state Board of Education next month, does not eliminate ...

... and require at least half of the products sold from machines to be of sound nutritional value. The state Child Health Advisory Committee, created by the same 2003 law that requires schools to report students' body mass index to parents, recommended ...

... and require at least half of the products sold from machines to be of sound nutritional value. The state Child Health Advisory Committee, created by the same 2003 law that requires schools to report students' body mass index to parents, recommended ...