Sentences with phrase «junk food is offered»

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Writing in the Nation, Alyssa Katz says, «The historical perspective the series offers is invaluable, but its parade of evidence amounts to media junk food, best consumed for the guilty pleasure of staring a fearsome beast in the eye from the safety of invisibility.»

What was that last part, you may be wondering... Smith's cookbook offers intriguing insight into why we reach for certain (junk) foods when we're sad, stressed, tired, hangry, and bored, and which nutrient - rich foods we should aim to eat instead.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

While we wait for our government to go through it's usual «slow to respond / proceed cautiously / let's hear both sides for a few years before we spend anything on this issue», my stalwart position remains that, in the meantime, we need to do everything we can as parents, educators, private companies, friends and neighbors to simply offer our kids real, wholesome food over the junk.

The main objections to offering nutritious food seemed to be bureaucratic inertia and a fear that Student Nutrition Services (SNS) would lose a lot of money if it stopped selling the junk food everyone assumed kids wanted.

Junk food is anything that offers calories without much in the way of nutrition.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

Nothing in the Smart Snacks rules affects classroom or birthday treats (since they're not offered for sale) but the rules did effectively put an end to junk food fundraising during school hours, a development which hasn't been popular with some Texans.

Here I am, not letting my daughter have juice, varying her daily meals, making her homemade muffins, to know that her school may be offering up junk food daily by the time she attends at the age of five.

I've written a lot on this blog (and, really, I mean, a LOT — see the «Related Posts» below) about classroom birthday treats, soccer snacks and the many other ways in which kids are offered junk food by people other than their parents on a regular... [Continue reading]

Even those of us who get annoyed when our kids are offered junk food by others might admit to engaging in some «over-snacking» ourselves, such as always carrying around a packaged snack (healthy or otherwise) to ward off crankiness or boredom — but not necessarily hunger — when we're out with our kids.

And if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&rajunk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&rafood offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&rafood served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&raJunk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&raFood Out of Your Child's Classroom.»

In fact, to the extent children are being fed junk food in the classroom, it's likely they will then consume less of the nutritionally balanced, taxpayer - subsidized meal offered in the lunch room.

At a June meeting between Houston ISD Food Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized progFood Services and its Parent Advisory Commitee, some PAC members suggested that rather than offering junk food, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized progfood, the a la carte menu could also be a way to offer foods that are more healthful than the regular school lunch — salads, fresh sandwich wraps and the like — but which are too expensive to serve under the federally subsidized program.

To honor its current veteran franchisees and operators, and in light of «Mission: Readiness,» a nonprofit group consisting of 300 of the nation's retired military leaders who want to tackle junk food vending, HUMAN Healthy Vending is now offering discounted machine pricing to current members of the US Military (any branch) as well as those veterans who have received an honorable discharge from a branch of the US Military and would like to start a healthy vending business.

I recently came across an an open letter, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which a doctor expresses dismay over the glut of junk food his first grader is offered at school.

Although it's not a good idea to offer junk food as an incentive, there are some ways to incorporate food into a reward system.

And it works both ways: a la carte lines can mean that poor kids lose access to less - than - healthy but highly - kid - popular junk food like Flamin» Hot Cheetos and tater tots, and it can also mean that only kids with money can access better food, like yogurts, salads and fresh sandwiches that are only offered a la carte.

@Bettina, No, I meant the adults who have the time and resources to stand guard at the corner store - THOSE could be more proactive and use the time instead to offer healthy, free snacks before the kids even make it in the door to buy the junk food.

I also dislike the fact that two choices are offered each day and at least one is invariably the «junk food» item, making it that much harder to achieve student acceptance of anything new and healthier (see, «My Op - Ed in the Houston Chronicle — Improving School Food Is Only Half the Battle «-RRBis invariably the «junk food» item, making it that much harder to achieve student acceptance of anything new and healthier (see, «My Op - Ed in the Houston Chronicle — Improving School Food Is Only Half the Battle «-Rfood» item, making it that much harder to achieve student acceptance of anything new and healthier (see, «My Op - Ed in the Houston Chronicle — Improving School Food Is Only Half the Battle «-RFood Is Only Half the Battle «-RRBIs Only Half the Battle «-RRB-.

It's just that offering fruit (and vegetables) in a vacuum, with no nutrition education, no over encouragement, no change in the child's home environment, and in a culture that relentlessly promotes junk food, it's easy to see why so many kids sill refuse to eat it.

If your child's school is still offering junk foods, please let school officials know how you feel about this.

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.

However, separate figures from the Department of Health (DoH) show more children are eating five or more portions off fruit and vegetables a day, thanks to schemes offering free fruit in schools and a clampdown on junk food.

I'm not saying it's junk food; I'm just saying that any other green is better so if you have a choice (and even most salad bars these days offer alternatives) pick something better.

In that very moment, I realized I wasn't really changing my eating habits, I was just sacrificing real food to eat processed junk, which offered temporary pleasure but left me hungry at night.

Brit + Co: «Offers intriguing insight into why we reach for certain (junk) foods when we're sad, stressed, tired, hangry, and bored, and which nutrient - rich foods we should aim to eat instead.»

Posted: 1/23/2007 9:46:11 PM: Children will eat when they are hungry and because this is a new problem, it is not because he doesn't like the foods you are offering, he just likes the junk better, like most of us.

My favorite thing about Gary Oldman is that he's done all of this without ever phoning in a performance, offering the same kind of gravitas to B - movie junk food like Criminal and thoughtful thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (which earned him his sole Oscar nomination).

Some districts and, in some cases, entire states, are drafting new laws to ban junk food from school and encourage access to healthy offerings on campuses.

They said that «food companies should only be allowed to offer such deals on junk food if they did an equal number of promotions on fruit and vegetables.

If your pooch already has too much pudge, there is no excuse to offer them any junk food.

Offer a selection of vegetables each day, and be aware that not all vegetables are good for rabbits (see sidebar «Rabbit Junk Food»).

«Society today is obsessed with things like junk food, offering quick gratification.

They'll go «nay & #, that healthy food is boring, and offer you unhealthy, junk food instead.

Deeply comprehending the need to elicit health and nutrition information to the masses, especially during these times when junk food and unhealthy lifestyle are the norm, I offer my services as a licensed nutritionist to Center Care Health.