Sentences with phrase «brought school food nutrition»

While the health of America's youth has been part of political and public conversations for some time, the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) brought school food nutrition to the national forefront and paved the way for significant progress towards better school food.

By Laura PeuquetWhile the health of America's youth has been part of political and public conversations for some time, the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) brought school food nutrition to the national forefront and paved the way for significant progress towards better school food.

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Representative Lynn Woolsey (D - CA) is introducing a bill to Congress that would finally get junk foods out of our schools, addressing skyrocketing childhood obesity rates and bringing school nutrition standards forward 40 years.

That was the message of a Monday news conference from freshly minted Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who tore into a strawberry cupcake for emphasis as he reminded parents that since the summer, the state's school nutrition policy no longer prohibits them from bringing cupcakes and other types of foods to school to celebrate a student's birthday or a school event.

Then Jenna Pepper, a vegetable and nutrition enthusiast who blogs over at Food With Kid Appeal, brought up the point in her excellent article that if we continue to feed them junk food and don't collectively teach our kids, at home and at school, about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the choFood With Kid Appeal, brought up the point in her excellent article that if we continue to feed them junk food and don't collectively teach our kids, at home and at school, about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the chofood and don't collectively teach our kids, at home and at school, about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the chofood, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the choice.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

If the meeting doesn't turn out as you had hoped, have your group brainstorm creative ways to increase awareness of school nutrition and to bring more attention to ways to improve your district's school - food program.

Congress did pass legislation mandating that nutrition standards be written for competitive foods in schools but Big Food (the companies that brought you «Pizza is a vegetable») is lobbying overtime to ensure that these standards are weakened and delayed.

We were surprised when, at the end of his talk, Krosoczka brought out the school nutrition professionals who appeared on an episode of the Food Network's «Chopped» and conducted a brief Q - and - A on why being a «lunch teacher» is so important.

Volunteers deliver hands - on nutrition education, build and tend school gardens, and bring high - quality local food into public school cafeterias.