Michelle Obama: School Lunch Should be a Lesson
Legislators and USDA officials are slowly starting to talk about school meals as a health initiative. They see school meals as an opportunity to ensure that students are getting the proper nutrients in the proper amounts — at least for one meal of the day — and they say an ...
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May 30, 2009
A White House Vegetable Garden!
By Deborah Lehmann — Excellent news from the White House front lawn! The New York Times reports that Michelle Obama will break ground tomorrow on the White House's first vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt. The primary goal of the organic garden, which will grow 55 varieties of vegetables, is to educate children about delicious, ...
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March 19, 2009
Recipe for Success: Part 2 in the Berkeley Series
By Ann Cooper — A strong school-lunch program eliminates processed foods and puts a high emphasis on fresh whole foods cooked from scratch. Here are some things we embraced as part of our program in Berkeley: • Cooking from scratch absolutely must be the focus of any healthy school lunch program. Schools across ...
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March 5, 2009
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