Free Lunch, Nachos and Junk Food: A Few Interesting Links
A sampling of today's school lunch news from around the internet: Student participation in free or reduced-price lunch programs is at an all-time high, with almost 20 million kids eligible for the subsidized meals. In the past year, enrollment has jumped over 10 percent in Utah, Arizona, Vermont and New Jersey. ...
1
June 11, 2009
Great Profile on America’s Soda Lobbyist
The Des Moines Register ran an article last week about the lobbyist for the American Beverage Association, who is using her role as a mother to encourage Congress to limit, but not ban, sugary drinks in schools. Interestingly enough, she also worked on the ad campaign that helped kill Hillary ...
1
April 16, 2009
Another Senate Hearing on Child Nutrition
By Deborah Lehmann — The fight over a la carte foods is back, but this time around there's some good news. The Senate Committe on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry held a hearing this morning with a focus on foods sold outside of the National School Lunch Program — in vending machines, snack bars ...
0
March 31, 2009
Instead of Healthy Vending Machines, How About Some Healthy Meals?
By Rosemary Boeglin — A couple years ago, I walked into my high school cafeteria as the bell rang for C lunch and saw a group of kids huddled around a new vending machine in our long, brick-laden hallway. I didn't really want a soda, but it seemed like the thing to ...
1
March 3, 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 ...
0
February 13, 2009
Latest Comments: