Sentences with phrase «healthier school food because»

-LSB-...] * Many of us in the school food world have long predicted that elementary school kids would be the first to come around to healthier school food because they haven't had years of seeing junk food in their cafeterias.

* Many of us in the school food reform world have long predicted that elementary school kids would be the first to come around to healthier school food because they haven't had years of seeing junk food in their cafeterias.

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Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

And that's bad, because we were already having trouble promoting a healthy image for school food.

Parents are not going to change their eating lifestyle at home because their kids are eating «too much» healthy food at school.

That's because, despite having supported the HHFKA's passage back in 2010, the SNA is now fighting vigorously to roll back in Congress many of the law's key nutritional requirements — and it is doing so on the grounds that kids are allegedly rejecting healthier school food en masse.

Why should I (or any parent) be banned from sending dye - free foods, or full fat milk, or organic apples, or even a midday treat just because the * principal * has decided that HER school lunch is healthy enough?

The school that does go to super healthy foods are going to save a lot of money because of the enormous cost to educate a child who is reacting to all the junky foods, or diagnosed with ADD, etc..

In other words, because the food industry has managed to shoehorn nutritionally questionable products into the school food guidelines, those foods are per se healthy and should be aggressively marketed to kids, even kids who are too young to understand the persuasive intent of advertising.

As Kevin Concannon, the USDA's Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services recently told me, «A quality and nutritious school meal program can insure that all of the investments we're making in the buildings, in the materials, and in the teachers will pay off because there's lots of evidence showing that kids who eat healthier will learn better.»

Because he wants the snacks at his child's school to be only whole - foods - based, he's not happy that the school's «no - nut» policy rules out one possible category of healthy snacks.

So what, we force the children to eat «healthy foods» during school lunch periods, which if they aren't taught why and how to eat more healthily they will surely not eat at all, then go home stuff their faces with extra fat, sugar and salt because they didn't eat at school.

School lunch is so important because in the community, many parents of color have problems purchasing healthy food because they are already struggling with other bills they have to pay for.

For example, a health impact assessment conducted by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project found that when schools implement healthier standards for snack and a la carte foods, students are more likely to purchase a school meal — a change that improves children's diets and school budgets at the same time, because schools earn reimbursements for meal sales.

The syllabus includes a healthy dose of Marion Nestle («Food Politics» is the primary textbook for the first half of the semester, and we referred to it throughout the course because it's brilliant) and Janet Poppendieck («Free for All: Fixing School Food in America» is the primary text for the second half of the semester).

I think that's because (a) the SNA holds a particularly respected position as the representative of the very people serving school meals and (b) what the SNA is asking for costs nothing and creates an easier path for school food workers and Congress, whereas supporting healthier school meals is a harder road (for some schools) that may require more funding from an unwilling Congress.

The SNA maintains that its position is justified because kids just aren't eating the healthier school meals, causing districts to waste food and lose revenue.

There is still the school meal that can be a problem, because in the US the school meals are not as healthy as they should be, but maybe you want to have a plan to bring some food to school with you — make it at home and then give it to your kid.

Second, if a school is making millions selling pizza and fries as competitive food — and is on record as saying that it does so precisely because kids are spurning the healthier meal — then I have to believe that the percentage of hard - boiled eggs and skim milk sold as part of their overall competitive food mix is extremely low.

Some schools offer healthy items a la carte, but some sell junk food a la carte; if your school does this, it may be a hard battle to get the nutrition department to step away from the junk food because they rely on that money to help fund the free meals.

Because the hard truth is this: if we really intend to wean an entire generation of children off school food «carnival fare» (nachos, nuggets, burgers and fries) and introduce them to fresher, healthier entrees, we are, without question, going to lose some kids along the way.

A new Cornell study analyzed 112 studies that collected information about healthy eating behaviors and found that most healthy eaters did so because a restaurant, grocery store, school cafeteria, or spouse made foods like fruits and vegetables visible and easy to reach (convenient), enticingly displayed (attractive), and appear like an obvious choice (normal).

Healthy living must be on the mind because, in addition to sugar regulation, Colorado lawmakers are considering a ban on all trans fat in school food.

Unfortunately, most medical schools around the world still do not teach medical students about insulin resistance, and one of the primary reasons for this is because medical schools are strongly influenced by the food industry, which wants you to believe that eating fat is dangerous and eating sugars and grains (net carbs) is healthy.

For nutrition, I do eat fairly healthy — I only drink water and juice (like maybe 2x every 6 months), but because of my busy schedule of school and work, I rarely think about food, therefore I undereat.

I've been food prepping for the week on weekends ever since med school started, partly to save money and also because it was healthier.

The current standards were introduced because voluntary school food guidelines introduced in 2001 requiring caterers to provide healthy options but not to limit access to less healthy food had failed to promote healthier eating in school.

Because of their role in society and exposure in schools, students can learn healthy eating and receive healthy foods from schools like nowhere else.