Sentences with phrase «healthful school»

For many students, L.A. Unified's trailblazing introduction of healthful school lunches has been a flop.

(c) Principals as leaders of their school environment are expected to promote student nutrition and wellness by promoting a healthful school environment, promoting nutrition education, fully supporting school breakfast and lunch programs, and ensuring adequate physical activities for students.

The results have been encouraging — which could mean both a way of using surplus foods and more - healthful school lunches for kids.

PCRM dietician Jennifer L. Keller chatted with Education World four years ago about the group's campaign, its recommendations regarding changes to the school lunch law, and its commitment to more healthful school lunches.

There are many ideas and programs on how to offer more healthful school meals.

The Association strives to see that all children have access to healthful school meals and nutrition education.

The Obama administration, in particular first lady Michelle Obama, has made more healthful school lunches a priority, but this study was conducted before new standards went into effect.

The article details how the district's new, more healthful school entrees are being spurned by many students:

For many students, L.A. Unified's trailblazing introduction of healthful school lunches has been a flop.

I not only want every child to have access to healthful school food, I want schools to do everything they can to encourage children to eat it.

My answer is: If we don't change what we put forth as «good food» (at least in a place of learning), we aren't creating healthful school food environments.

There isn't enough support to make healthful school lunches happen right now.

«Snack foods and vending machines get into schools for a variety of good reasons,» said Alicia Moag - Stahlberg, a registered dietitian who has worked to develop more healthful school lunches in Chicago schools.

«We think (the changes) reflect the district's commitment to healthful school foods,» said Rochelle Davis, executive director of the Healthy Schools Campaign, which is partnering with CPS and others on the project.

Is it possible to design a healthful school lunch program that won't not cause kids to turn up their noses?

It was hard for me to imagine the situation getting much uglier, until yesterday's email presented the truly bizarre spectacle of the very people dedicated to preparing healthful school meals seeking to discredit reliable evidence that kids actually like those meals.

Too often, glowing media reports about a particular district's healthful school food leave readers with the impression that if only their own district's employees had the will and creativity, they achieve the same results.

But this episode illustrates how the new school food regulations, which certainly are a net positive (more fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, etc.), can also create unintended negative consequences in schools already ahead of the curve in providing healthful school food.

Not exact matches

Schools, hospitals, and retirement communities were looking for easy, portable, healthful snacks for their consumers.

Endlessly dedicated to her involvement with the Slow Foods Miami Chapter, Frans champions initiatives that bring light to the farm - to - table community in Miami, and devotes herself to the education of school children in healthful nutrition and sustainable farming.

I'm lacking in the snack department, and these look so tasty yet healthful... perfect for packing in school lunches and munching on throughout the day!

It's all so perfect — fresh, healthful food for the same cost as processed junk — that it makes a public school parent like me want to cry out, «OK, Jamie, I'm sold!

Guidance Materials: The Department of Education is required by Statute 18.1003.453 to provide on its website links to information regarding the nutritional content of foods and beverages and to healthful food choices in accordance with the dietary guidelines of the United States Department of Agriculture and provide examples of wellness classes that offer nutrition education for teachers and school support staff and encourage school districts to offer classes that are taught by a licensed nutritional professional for the school nutrition department.

Two questions are usually uppermost in the minds of parents: what to include that will be healthful and nutritious (and at least as good, if not better than what the school serves) and how to keep the lunch from spoiling before it is eaten.

Many are lacking key pieces of kitchen equipment that would help them prepare fresh, wholesome school meals, according to a recent report from the Kids» Safe and Healthful Food Project.

I know there are many out there who regard the lifting of these caps with suspicion, but three school food experts whom I greatly respect (Justin Gagnon, Dana Woldow and «Wilma,» my anonymous school food professional) all guest blogged here to explain that the caps were impeding schools» ability to serve healthful and more creative meals.

One is by Dr. Michael Rosenbaum, a Columbia University professor of pediatrics, who supports keeping school food as healthful as possible.

Choicelunch is a California school food caterer supplying healthful meals to over 250 schools, most of which are affluent enough to operate outside the National School Lunch Prschool food caterer supplying healthful meals to over 250 schools, most of which are affluent enough to operate outside the National School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Program.

If schools only offered healthful options this program would have no real use.

In furtherance of that goal, graduates of the Lunch Teachers ® Culinary Boot Camps are recognized as culinary ambassadors who lead the school food reform in their own districts and embrace their essential role in teaching children about the pleasures and benefits of eating real food prepared in a healthful manner.

The blog is most definitely a proponent of healthful eating, but its broader mission is covering anything of interest to me relating to «kids and food, in school and out.»

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

Since its founding in the 1940s, the lunch program has had the dual — and often starkly conflicting — missions of feeding school children healthful meals while financially supporting the agriculture sector, primarily through commodity purchases.

Updated equipment is a considerable barrier for many schools when it comes to implementing the requirements of the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA); the Pew Charitable Trusts, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is working on identifying strategies to overcome these barriers through their Kids» Safe and Healthful Food Projects.

Or do you think the recent overhaul of the federal school meal regulations will automatically result in relatively healthful a la carte entrees?

Child Nutrition Services - Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Child Nutrition Services (CNS) assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing quality nutrition programs that promote life - long healthful living while providing nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

The mission of the LaConner School District Food Service Program is to provide nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning, while at the same time promoting nutritional education for life long healthful living.

In season one of Food Revolution, which many of you no doubt watched, Oliver visited Huntington, West Virginia (allegedly the fattest city in America) and attempted to teach healthful eating to its citizenry as well as improve its school food.

I'll also have the means to pack her a healthful and nutritious lunch as she gets into elementary school and to teach her how to cook for and feed herself as she grows older.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Sixty percent of the parents of students enrolled in the stronger food curriculum said school changed their child's knowledge about healthful food choices, compared to 36 percent in the other program.

One of those positive responses came from the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a joint effort between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve school meals.

There's another possible solution, one pursued by food service companies trying to gain contracts from various school districts: Trick the kids into eating healthful food.

But the Northbrook School District 28 administrative assistant, who had never visited the lunchroom, let alone dined there, now buys her meals each day in the cafeteria, where the menus got a healthful upgrade three years ago.

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

When FOCUS works with a school district, it sets three main goals for school food: making it more healthful in general, obtaining more of it from local farms, and making it sustainable.

Some officials claim students won't eat vegetables when they're served, but in my experience working with schools, students have been extremely open to trying new healthful items in the lunch line.

I like Karen's question about what a school day might look like if healthful eating was a priority.

Thanks for all you've done to advance the school food conversation, and here's wishing you a year of packed - from - home lunches of only your favorite, healthful foods!