To borrow a line from Kermit the frog, it’s not easy being green — or, eating green, the Huffington Post reports. America is the fattest country in the world [1], and only ranks second to Greece [2] in the proportion of children who are overweight, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. While obesity rates have slowed or stabled in other countries, larger increases were recorded in the United States, alongside Canada and Ireland. In America, 17 percent — or 12.5 million [3] — of children aged 2-19 are obese, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another 16 percent or so are overweight and at risk of becoming obese. Experts point to a culture of high fat and low quality, low nutrition eating [4] — combined with minimal physical activity — as the main culprit. The OECD has called for a shift in habits and increased education in health and nutrition. But is it where that education is supposed to be occurring — in schools — in part to blame? While schools can’t control what students eat off campus, they can affect what’s being served to children on school grounds, and educate students to prepare them for a lifetime of healthy habits, advocates have said…