Hold the Salt, Please
New York City is developing quite a reputation for fighting the dietary vices of America. In 2006, New York became the first city to ban artificial trans fats in restaurant food. Two years later, the city started requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus. This year, public ...
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January 11, 2010
IOM Releases Nutrition Recommendations for School Meals
The current nutrition standards for school meals are in sore need of an overhaul. They haven't been updated since 1995, and they're not in line with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The USDA tried for several years to bring the regulations up to date, but after running into problems ...
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October 20, 2009
Could Tiny Rhode Island Become a School Lunch Model?
I attended a Slow Food Eat-In in Tiverton, Rhode Island yesterday, and over delicious salads and home-baked bread, I talked to Jennifer Quigley-Harris from Kids First and learned some amazing things about school food in the Ocean State. This month, new nutrition standards for cafeteria meals take effect in all Rhode ...
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September 8, 2009
What’s the state of American school lunch?
By Deborah Lehmann — School food has gotten better, but cafeterias have a long way to go. That’s the message in a supplement to this month’s issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. The special section discusses the findings of the Third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study, which collected data ...
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February 13, 2009
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