Mary Width, lecturer in dietetics in the WSU Department of Nutrition and Food Science, offers tips in this article about how to pack healthy lunches for school kids. She points out that a healthy lunch should include three different food groups: fruit, vegetable and protein. She comments extensively on three sample lunchbox meals prepared by the Free Press and makes recommendations. On the topic of how to get children to accept healthier foods, such as whole wheat breads, Width has this advice: "Kids are going to eat what you give them. . . . If you start young, instead of giving them white bread and cutting the crusts off, give them whole wheat bread. That's what they'll get accustomed to." A related story in the Lansing State Journal used many of Width's comments from the Free Press story.