BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - EU officials want European schoolchildren to swap their French fries for fruit. The European Union is aiming to spend $140 million a year to provide free fruit and vegetables to schools across the continent to tackle child obesity, officials said Tuesday. An estimated 22 million children in the 27-nation bloc of nearly 500 million people are overweight because of bad eating habits. Among them, more than 5 million are clinically obese _ a figure expected to rise by 400,000 every year, according to the EU. "You only have to walk down any high street in Europe to see the extent of the problems we face with overweight kids," EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said. "Let's do something about it," The European Parliament and EU nations still need to approve sign the plan, which will be...
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