Children continue to have easy access at school to sugary sodas and flavored milk, according to a study published Monday in the online Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
The
With research suggesting that diets with inadequate sodium-to-magnesium and sodium-to-potassium ratios may be as much of a problem as diets with too much sodium, the Scoular Company has created Smart
Much of what we eat and how we eat it is decided by politicians and on Wall Street, according to Marion Nestle.
Nestle, author and public health and sociology professor
Independent scientists advising the European Union have for the sixth time found no cause-and-effect relationship between probiotic products and improved immune systems.
The Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies,
The Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill that stalled last month still has a chance, according to White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass.
Yesterday, Kass, who also serves as the senior policy
Each year 5.5 billion lunches and 2 billion breakfasts are served in schools in the United States, and The Center for Ecoliteracy sees each one of them as an
Two top food-focused administration officials visited a D.C. elementary school yesterday to kick off the Second Annual D.C. Farm to School Week, part of a wider initiative to
“No child should have to learn on an empty stomach,” announced President Obama at his recent Proclamation of National School Lunch Week.
In 1962, by joint resolution, Congress designated the
The United Fresh Foundation’s A Salad Bar in Every School campaign has donated two new salad bars to public schools in the Washington, DC area, for a total of
After more than two years of litigation, a federal court last week struck down an Ohio ban on labeling dairy products as “rbGH free,” “rbST free,” or “artificial hormone free”
“The status quo cannot remain,” implored Sam Kass, senior policy advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives and White House chef, during his keynote address that kicked off the 33rd Annual National
In Washington, D.C. school lunch reform advocates are hosting a screening of Lunch Line, a documentary on the history of National School Lunch Program.
Karen Duncan, wife of Secretary