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Entrepreneur Steve Case: The Market Can Solve School Nutrition Problems

By News Desk on June 10, 2014

After making a $30-million investment in a school lunch company, technology entrepreneur Steve Case has told Time magazine that the market can solve the problem that now has Washington, D.C., politically flummoxed. “I’m not running…
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Nutrition Standards Won't Fix Big Food's Worst Child Marketing Tactics

By Michele Simon on July 12, 2013

Last month, I participated in an important panel at a childhood obesity conference to discuss the current strategy backed by some advocacy groups: asking industry to market “healthier” foods to children. But as Susan Linn …
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Seattle Puts Healthy Snacks in City's Vending Machines

By News Desk on March 5, 2013

Three years after Seattle put healthy snacks in vending machines located in parks and recreation facilities, the city Monday applied the policy to all its properties. That means that at least half of the options…
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USDA Revamps School Nutrition Standards

By Gretchen Goetz on January 26, 2012

flotuslunch3.jpgIn an effort to lower childhood obesity rates – which have been climbing rapidly over the past 3 decades – the Obama Administration is raising the bar on school nutrition. 

With the help of First…

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Obama Urged to Push Kids' Food Marketing Regs

By Gretchen Goetz on September 29, 2011

Academic experts from across the nation are calling on President Obama to ensure that his administration establishes guidelines on marketing food to children.

In a letter to the President Tuesday, more than 75 researchers in…

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Senate Potato Block Wants No School Lunch Limits

By Dan Flynn on August 25, 2011

Anyone who thought Congress was out of it once it adopted the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act more than a year ago probably does not understand the money and complexity involved in new nutritional standards for…

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Restaurant Chains Promise Healthier Kid Meals

By News Desk on July 14, 2011

Nineteen restaurant chains, including Burger King, Denny’s, IHOP and Outback Steakhouse, have signed on to a National Restaurant Association initiative to offer children healthy menu items.

Called “Kids LiveWell,” the program promises to offer and…

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Helping Kids Opt for Healthy Food at School

By Gretchen Goetz on February 28, 2011

Food Safety News talks with leaders of some of the nation’s top school nutrition programs to find out what motivates kids to choose healthy food at the cafeteria.

You can lead a child to cauliflower,…
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Kid Foods Labeled 'Better for You' Often Aren't

By Mary Rothschild on January 20, 2011

When the label on the children’s food product says it’s better for you, chances are it’s not, and one nutrition advocacy group suggests that in the absence of federal regulation, companies are making deceptive claims.…

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Obesity, Nutrition on Vilsack’s Agenda for Cities

By Dan Flynn on December 6, 2010

Before he was Secretary of Agriculture, and before he was governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack was mayor of Mount Pleasant, a town of less than 8,000 citizens residing on less than eight square miles.

So…
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