Sentences with phrase «healthy school meals»

So this is the perfect time for ordinary parents to speak out in support of maintaining healthier school meal standards.

Use the Making the Case set of tools to promote fresh, healthy school meals in your community.

Whilst far below wider food inflation rates, it was a timely reminder of the importance of increasing take up of healthy school meals if we're going to keep them affordable for everyone.

That's not a sustainable model for healthy school meal programs.

Important terms, techniques and ideas on how to create healthy school meals.

Through this law, American public schools offer healthier school meals and snacks for over 50 million kids.

Together, we secured healthier school meals and snacks for 50 million kids.

Please consider signing and sharing this letter with your colleagues to stand up for healthier school meals at this most critical time.

If we're going to keep school meal numbers rising, we have to keep healthy school meals affordable.

Interestingly, the researchers did not find a connection between healthy school meals and the percentage of obese students, but they suggest that those effects might appear over a longer period of time.

Their discussion of the survey results and personal experiences produced a list of six C's — values they have used to encourage children's enjoyment of healthy school meals.

Maybe we could find a way to tax it to generate some revenue for healthier school meals.

Today I'm sending a virtual fruit basket to the Washington Post editorial board for its strong and cogent editorial supporting healthier school meal standards, «Don't Let Lobbyists Decide What Your Children Eat at School.»

There has been a great deal of progress in providing healthy school meals in recent years and these new standards will help deliver further improvements.»

Although it never overtly names the SNA, Mission Readiness is now fighting back against this assault on healthier school meals in a report issued last week, «Retreat is Not an Option.»

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out... [Continue reading]

Competitive foods also compete with healthy school meals.

The number of children eating healthy school meals in England has climbed for the third year in a row, with more than three million children now having a school lunch every day.

The Rudd study, when paired with similar findings from a previous Harvard School of Public Health study, make a very strong case that we must stay the course on the new healthier school meal standards.

You can see it in the number of vegan and vegetarian restaurants opening in every town, the expansion of healthy school meal programs, Meatless Monday campaigns, and salad bars in cafeterias.

Implementing healthier school meals takes time and effort: It requires the cooperation of everyone — from students to distributors to principals.

Adamick has served as consultant to Interact for Health Foundation's Healthy Eating & Active Living program, the Colorado Health Foundation's Healthy School Meals Project, for the Children's Health Foundation's Lunch for Life project, and to the Empire Health Foundation's strategic grants division.

According to Saidel, Chartwells believes it's far more important to offer children 100 percent intact whole grains than it is to focus on offering whole grain - rich versions of kids» favorites, like pizza, tortillas and biscuits; offering the latter can drive participation down, turning children away from healthy school meals, the company believes, while the whole grain in such products is nutritionally inferior to intact whole grains.

Although she has been with Waterford for 31 years, Simonds refers to her «previous life» as a photographer and says those skills have helped her as a school nutrition director in a variety of ways including writing and producing training videos and creative social media promoting healthy school meals.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

Once again, if you are a current or former SNA member who disagrees with your organization's current legislative agenda, please show your support for healthier school meals by signing and sharing this open letter.

Education and Professional Development: School nutrition professionals will have the necessary knowledge, skills and expertise to administer, manage and deliver healthy school meal programs.

Nonetheless, the newer study led major media outlets like Fox News and the Washington Post to portray healthier school meals as «in trouble,» and it may well influence Congressional lawmakers during this fall's Child Nutrition Reauthorization, when they will consider weakening school meal standards regarding fruits and vegetables.

Federal rules requiring healthier school meals took effect this summer, but many students will be seeing the same fatty foods that have been on their plastic lunch trays for years, a report says.

A few weeks after the Smart Snacks rules went into effect this summer, Secretary Vilsack again felt the need to reassure the public, writing a piece for the Huffington Post entitled «Setting the Record Straight: Healthy School Meal Rules Allow for Bake Sales.»

I'm aware that the Trump administration may only just be getting started, and that Perdue's May 1st announcement could be the opening salvo in a larger effort to dismantle healthier school meal standards.

«We didn't find any evidence of that, and we found healthier school meals have the potential to reduce obesity,» Taber said.

Held on Oct. 4, Taste Washington Day is an opportunity to encourage the collaboration of school districts and their local agricultural community to provide healthy school meals throughout the school year.

In the absence of increased funding, this agreement eases operational challenges and provides school meal programs critical flexibility to help them plan healthy school meals that appeal to students.»

But given these same representatives» dogged quest to gut healthier school meal standards, this talking point struck me as more than a little disingenuous.

Along with a guest from the USDA, I'll be fielding your questions regarding healthier school meals and what parents can do to support them.

This year, National School Lunch Week falls on October 10th — 14th, so Moms Rising is devoting its regular Food Friday tweet chat on October 7th to discussing healthy school meals.

Woldow points out, as I did on Twitter, that the SNA completely squandered its opportunity to seek more funding from Congress to finance healthier school meals, instead pushing hard for a weakening of nutritional standards.

On Friday, in a speech to the Partnership for a Healthier America — a private - sector group set up to push the administration's nutrition objectives — the first lady said: «Because of what we have all done together, today, 32 million kids are getting healthier school meals.

The film acknowledges that the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act — which requires schools to reduce sugar and sodium and serve lower - fat meat and dairy products, whole - grain breads, and lots of fruits and vegetables — mandates healthier school meals.

Mission: Readiness, the organization of former high - ranking military officials concerned about obesity and other health problems in military recruits and personnel, has just released «Retreat Is Not An Option: Healthier School Meals Protect our Children and our Country.»

The national nutrition standards that ensure healthy school meals could be on the congressional chopping block when the issue is put to a vote this September.

Block grants school nutrition programs in three states, a dangerous idea that will put further strain on state and local school districts» budgets and jeopardize children's access to quality, healthy school meals no matter where they live.

«Updated healthy school meal standards were created based on the expert advice of pediatricians and nutrition experts and are being widely embraced by students, parents, educators, and nutrition professionals.

This is great news — and also very important data to have on hand as we head into the Child Nutrition Reauthorization this fall, when federal lawmakers will debate whether to roll back some of these same healthier school meal standards.

In one camp, so the stories went, are nutrition advocates who want healthier school meals, while Republicans are saying the feds shouldn't be making such decisions.

If you've been paying attention to the school food debate this past year, you've noticed the consistent barrage of negative claims: «Kids hate healthier school meals.»