Sentences with phrase «school food of our childhoods»

This post (which originally ran January 11, 2011) was very popular with readers and generated in the comments section lots of long - buried memories about the school food of our childhoods.

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He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donatioFood Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donatiofood and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

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.

Representative Lynn Woolsey (D - CA) is introducing a bill to Congress that would finally get junk foods out of our schools, addressing skyrocketing childhood obesity rates and bringing school nutrition standards forward 40 years.

While I believe all the issues on The Lunch Tray are worthy of discussion (even if some are a little sillier than others), and even though we've certainly discussed childhood hunger here and will continue to do so, any site claiming to be dedicated to «kids and food, in school and out» really ought to take affirmative steps to help kids with no food at all.

As childhood obesity rates continue to rise (as I fear they will), and as we start to see ever more clearly the ill health effects of our current school food regime (replete with its a la carte junk), as well as our current agricultural policies, maybe our society will eventually embrace the idea of universal, free school food.

But when there's real progress underway — when the White House advances early childhood education; when a culture of school food reform is the new normal in districts nationwide; when the work takes on a life of its own — then the entrepreneur is ready to take on a different challenge, and begin work anew.

That bizarre scenario was all I could think of when I received an email yesterday from the School Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (Hschool food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

The AAP's priorities for child nutrition reauthorization are strengthening the WIC program, keeping the nutritional standards for the school meals program strong, and addressing childhood hunger and food insecurity during out - of - school time, especially in the summer months.

The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 led to incredible improvements in our nation's childhood nutrition programs, but upcoming reauthorization of the act could put key provisions ensuring healthy school food in jeopardy.

Districts of all sizes are utilizing farm to school programs to teach academic standards in school gardens, support the local economy through local food purchases for school meals, and fight childhood obesity and other preventable, food - related diseases.

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.

On the other hand, as I also noted in my JO post, I do tend to overlook some of Oliver's shtick — and questionable tactics — when I consider how much valuable attention he's drawn to critically important issues like childhood obesity and diabetes, our nation's over-processed diet and the abysmal state of school food in many places in the U.S. I'm just not sure he would have achieved the same high ratings with a measured, PBS - style documentary on the topic.

Substantive research already exists showing nut free schools (not early childhood, but mid elementary onwards) actually do more harm than good, to the extent that the official anaphylaxis prevention guidelines have been updated by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to explicitly state that food bans in upper primary and high schools do not work, and can actually cause problems.

As you may know from the many times I link to her writing on TLT's Facebook page, Dana Woldow of PEACHSF (Parents, Educators & Advocates Connect ion for Healthy School Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hSchool Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hunFood) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hunfood - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hschool food reform to childhood hunfood reform to childhood hunger.

Via Marion Nestle of Food Politics, I learned that the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood is seeking signatures on a letter asking for a complete in - school advertising ban, so you can sign that as well if you agree with that position.)

I wanted to let you know that last week I undertook the laborious task of going through the almost 500 food - related organizations and individuals I follow on my Twitter feed and grouping them into general topics such as: «Childhood Obesity,» «School Food Reform,» «Public Health» and the lfood - related organizations and individuals I follow on my Twitter feed and grouping them into general topics such as: «Childhood Obesity,» «School Food Reform,» «Public Health» and the lFood Reform,» «Public Health» and the like.

That measure reflects growing sentiment that schools need to address a nationwide epidemic of childhood obesity and stop selling nutritionally inferior food to students.

Jane Black's piece in Slate this week uses a lot of words to state the obvious: Remaking school food alone won't solve an epidemic of childhood obesity.

Learn directly from Chef Ann Cooper, a leader in school food reform and childhood nutrition, and from a broad range of topic experts who are featured throughout the coursework.

In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet - related disease, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition.

Since starting TLT in 2010, I've made it a tradition to post just before Thanksgiving on the topic that's at the heart of my interest in school food reform: childhood hunger.

Just to bring everyone up to speed: the old school food regulations only had calorie minimums, which made sense given the National School Lunch Program's original purpose of combatting childhood malnutrschool food regulations only had calorie minimums, which made sense given the National School Lunch Program's original purpose of combatting childhood malnutrSchool Lunch Program's original purpose of combatting childhood malnutrition.

This chapter outlines a range of actions that families, communities, businesses, and governments at all levels can take to improve school foods and the school nutrition environment so they support and foster healthier food choices and help reduce childhood obesity.

Today, on behalf of Corporate Accountability International and in collaboration with the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood, I submitted the following comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding its proposal to require schools to only allow marketing for those foods allowed under the agency's «Smart Snacks» nutrition guidelines.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

Over the past fifty years, schools stopped cooking from scratch and switched to highly processed heat - and - serve food, heavy in salt, fat, and sugar, which has contributed to rising rates of childhood obesity and chronic illness.

Ten years after I first dipped my toe into the roiling waters of school food reform, I continue to hear parents complain about unhealthy food and food practices at school, even as headlines scream about the childhood obesity epidemic.

Barry — It's absolutely true that there are many factors contributing to childhood obesity and school food is just one of them.

I haven't yet researched it, but my sense is that this waste is only growing in quantity as school districts move from what many of us remember from childhood — on site cafeteria cooking with reusable trays and real silverware — to food prepared off - site and packaged for reheating.

School food service is NOT the problem, but rather is part OF the solution to childhood obesity.

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A growing body of evidence suggests the school food environment plays a key role in influencing childhood dietary behaviors and weight status.

Our plan is to have our website serve as a primary reference for external inquiries so that other individuals and organizations can replicate the work of the Fund, or tailor our successes in early childhood education, school food reform, and disaster readiness to fit their own communities and organizations.

In an effort to halt the rising rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools, recommends families take a broader approach to nutrition, considering children's whole diet pattern — rather than simply the amount of sugar, fat, or specific nutrients in individual foods.

Current research projects focus on the process and outcomes of food system localisation in a globalising environment, the sustainability implications of a large scale transition to agriculturally derived bio-fuels, the effects of school and community context on childhood obesity, and the micro-politics of animal welfare in alternative livestock systems.

Education The governor put forth several education initiatives, including to expand the availability of early childhood care, pre-kindergarten education, and afterschool; a proposal to guarantee free food for school children; and supports for teachers.

In interviews, the study participants relayed their perceptions of how emotional and physical abuse in childhood affected their lives, including physical health, school performance and ability to maintain employment — all factors directly linked to household income and ability to afford enough healthy food for their own children.

«Because of the problem of childhood obesity, much attention has been given to the school food environment and the NSLP.

Federal school lunch guidelines enacted in 2012 are improving nutrition for school - age children and reducing childhood obesity, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences faculty member.

Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied the link between food allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children.

Scientific research provides abundant evidence that a poor prenatal diet, followed by a steady childhood diet of low - nutrient food spawns a whole host of physical defects and diseases, including early - onset osteoporosis, diabetes, coronary occlusion, obesity, acne, dental irregularities and, most important, acute distortions in brain chemistry — bizarre distortions with macabre perceptions that could easily trigger the tragic shootings on our school campuses.

I remember with deep fondness that three - year - period of my childhood life, before we moved yet again to a distant island — the school I attended, the neighborhood, our house, the language (native in that island), and the food — all of which I would miss after we moved to an unfamiliar island with totally different culture.

The Act provides for technical assistance and information from the Secretary of Agriculture to aid state and local educational agencies and school food authorities in establishing healthy school nutrition environments, reducing childhood obesity, and preventing diet - related chronic diseases.]

It has been a centerpiece of Michelle Obama's campaign to curb childhood obesity by promoting healthful eating, and if passed, it will include stricter guidelines on the foods that schools can give to kids.

The letter says free healthy school lunches for infants are «the bedrock» of a «transformative childhood obesity strategy» to tackle the marketing of less healthy food and drink, boost food education in schools, encourage companies to reformulate their products and support families in healthier eating.

Teachers and schools are on the front lines of the fight to end childhood hunger, and I often hear stories of teachers who spend their own money on food for their students.

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