Sentences with phrase «problems with school food»

Overall, though, the post does touch on some big issues that underlie the problems with school food.

Also, one of the reasons I dislike in - class treats is the allergen issue, and that's not a problem with school food as, at least in HISD, a child's special allergy - related needs are routinely accommodated.

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Soon senators George McGovern, a Democrat, and Bob Dole, a Republican, joined with incoming president Richard Nixon to champion legislation that expanded food stamps, shored up school lunch programs and, by the end of the 1970s, largely solved the problem.

Why isn't Jamie Oliver connecting the dots for his viewers so that they can see where the real problem lies with school food — not with the schools themselves, but with the major players who control the system?

It's eerily odd to me, however, that JO fails to address problems with school lunch that are created by U.S. food / farm policy at all in his show, choosing instead to blame the so - called «bad guys» like LAUSD Superintendent Ray Cortines.

I have heard from food service directors who support the standards, whose schools were early adopters — and are certainly among the 95 % that are in full compliance — that they encounter problems in implementation that interfere with achievement of the underlying goal (healthier food, healthier kids).

Right now we have a national obesity problem, so why aren't we asking for money to raise healthier students, to support coordinated school health, for more nutrition education, more collaboration with partners, parents and the community to encourage children to try new foods, to develop recipes, to provide technical assistance and set professional standards?

And I'm starting to realize that my personal relationships with the people running our school food department may be impeding my ability to speak out as forcefully as I should about some of the very real problems I see.

-LSB-...] have no problem with programs that work nutrition education into the school curriculum, such as Recipe for Success's innovative seed - to - plate approach that use math, science and language arts while showing impoverished kids how their food grows and -LSB-...]

Until we fix this problem, however, we're confronted with the sad paradox of hungry kids enrolled in schools offering food, yet still going hungry.

As reported Sunday by the Tribune's Stephanie Banchero, the problem with contaminated school food exploded in November, when 44 students and teachers at Laraway Elementary School in Joliet became ill and were rushed to the hospital after eating tainted chicken teschool food exploded in November, when 44 students and teachers at Laraway Elementary School in Joliet became ill and were rushed to the hospital after eating tainted chicken teSchool in Joliet became ill and were rushed to the hospital after eating tainted chicken tenders.

The occasional biscuit is one thing and, as noted above, I'd have no problem with a change to the school food rules to allow such foods as a treat.

The problem is, it's very hard to convince a school district to connect those dots, especially when food services groups operate as self - sustaining entities with a budget unrelated to the rest of the district.

I've come to recognize that «school food» is a behemoth of an issue, with longstanding, complex problems that are rooted primarily at a federal — not district or school — level, and which are compounded by much larger societal issues relating to food production and consumption.

From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.»

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

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.

Now that you mention it, I actually have no problem with programs that work nutrition education into the school curriculum, such as Recipe for Success's innovative seed - to - plate approach that uses math, science and language arts while showing impoverished kids how their food grows and teaching them about sound nutrition.

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.

However, I think Mr. Bruske's post his on Better DC School Food today http://tinyurl.com/4sypbtm would help explain why simply doing away with the whole school lunch system will not solve the prSchool Food today http://tinyurl.com/4sypbtm would help explain why simply doing away with the whole school lunch system will not solve the prschool lunch system will not solve the problem.

Many of us would say that there is a problem with isolating a portion of young students from the rest of the class and wasting school time by feeding children nutritionally worthless foods.

The problem is, school districts are left holding the financial bag in terms of increased costs and food waste when kids don't get on board immediately with the new regime.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

-LSB-...] The Lunch Tray has a problem with how «bake sales» are used to undermine efforts to improve the nutrition of food offered in schools.

One issue mentioned in Ed's post which I hadn't considered in my previous discussion of the flavored milk issue («The Chocolate Milk Wars») is the possible behavioral problems exhibited by students as a result of consuming so much sugar from the milk, especially when combined with other sugary foods offered in school.

A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts» Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, also expected to be released Monday, said that 91 percent of school food officials the group surveyed said they face challenges in putting the standards in place, including problems with food costs and availability, training employees to follow the new guidelines, and a lack of the proper equipment to cook healthier meals.

A member of the committee and Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Bernard Ahiafor, after a working visit to the school to assess the implementation of the Free SHS program said, «We realized that the waakye that they were being served it with has no complement in terms of egg or fish, so that goes a long way to state categorically from what I've seen that there is a problem with the quality of food.»

With the kids, the problem is so bad that the State of Connecticut recently outlawed junk food and soda pop vending machines from local schools.

Just after graduating high school I switched because of various strange health issues — one of which landed me in the ER with fears of heart problems and / or severe lung problems (never smoked in my life), which is strange having just entered adulthood, but thankfully turned out to be extremely bad acid reflux mixed with the flu — and I got all these strange illnesses and severe sharp stomach pains (which I was terrified could be appendicitis developing, as the location was always that area) despite being in great physical shape my whole life and generally avoiding junk food.

Still others act as case workers or counselors (but actually spend the majority of their day in the learning environment with students) to focus on the non-academic problems — like food, health, or emotional issues — that too often trip up students (and sadly receive short shrift in many schools today).

More than 1.3 million Britons are now on a gluten ‑ free diet, yet parents continue to report problems with getting trusted gluten - free food for their children when at school, writes Lisa Bainbridge, head of campaigns at Coeliac UK

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

But the problem with America's school food has little to do with the schools themselves.

Family support staffer Marcel Hauser said his role is doing whatever it takes to help a family bring their child to school ready to learn, whether that's finding food, shelter, or help with domestic problems.

I mix fresh boiled chicken, no fat with his dry food.Eating better now and do use best of foods, made in USA.Big problem for me.Went to school, has a memory unbelieable!

Because when you have a billion or so people who are really struggling, suffering and off the grid and not with adequate food and whose kids don't go to school and who are routinely malnourished that's a problem for everyone — and not just in an abstract ethical way but because it can foment terrorism and crime and other dysfunction.

There is another school of thought - that human ingenuity and economic progress will get round the problem, as they have in the past, notably in the Green Revolution that transformed food - scarce countries such as India into lands of abundance, with food exports contributing to the national coffers.

The problem with this discussion, as with so many discussions in the climate debate jr. high school cafeteria food fight, is that many involved have twisted the arguments away from a matter of philosophy to a matter of furthering partisan agendas.

Sheilah has spent over 30 years as an activist, working with organizations dedicated to developing and advocating for grassroots - developed solutions to social problems, ranging from environmental issues to sustainable agriculture to public school reform to improving school food.

The cognitive «bandwidth» required to deal with financial problems, stress and constant «trade - offs» (a healthy food for the family tonight or new school clothes) makes it more difficult to maintain the mental reserve needed for those SEL skills.