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Article updated: 12/26/2012 5:44 AM

Suburban schools vague on 'healthy' snacks

Lombard mom fights vague notion of healthy school snacks

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Alison Moro, 10, of Lombard, bites into her favorite snack. Alison's mother lobbied for the right for her daughter to snack at school.

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Monika Moro of Lombard helps her 10-year-old daughter, Alison, cut a pomegranate for an afternoon snack.

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Alison Moro, 10, reaches for a snack with friends after school in Lombard.

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Students at Windsor Elementary School in Arlington Heights District 25 eat a snack during a midmorning class. District 25 "allows the consumption of healthy snacks at school" but does not specify what's healthy.

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Kotryna Povilanskas snacks on an apple during a midmorning class at Windsor Elementary School in Arlington Heights.

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Students at Windsor Elementary School in Arlington Heights are allowed to eat healthy snacks during midmorning classes.

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Snack policies in suburban schools tend to be vague, varying from classroom to classroom under wellness policies that may allow "healthy snacks" without defining "healthy." Schools also may fail to specify which ages of students are allowed snacks. But a Lombard mom challenged the system -- and won. "It is in the best interests of students to have a snack."