In 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
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest public school system, is being forced to re-do its school lunch menus after a switch to more healthy meals
School lunches were associated with fights back in the Stone Age when I was growing up. As I recall, the fights could happen in at least a couple of ways.
Some 40,000 pounds of frozen ground beef that was intended to be served for lunch at six school districts in Georgia is being recalled because it may be contaminated
Thousands more children will have access to healthier meals this year, thanks to recent government reforms that encourage schools to provide more nutritious offerings.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, passed
Whether they are in backpacks, cubbies or desks, lunches packed for schoolchildren often sit around for three to four hours in various states of refrigeration before the lunch bell ever
Efforts to serve local food in schools are expanding nationwide, but creating a market between small farms and school districts still poses many challenges, according to the U.S. Department
The raw milk that sickened 16 children and two adults at a Wisconsin elementary school last month came from a bulk tank at a local farm that sells milk from
Seventy-eight percent of U.S. voters think schools should meet higher nutrition standards for all foods served or sold to students, and many of them are willing to help pay
Fat and salt-laden school food beware. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday unveiled proposed nutritional standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, the
The science isn’t there to back up more stringent testing of meat purchased through the federal government’s ground beef purchase program–which provides beef to the National School
More attention is being placed on the culinary skills of those in charge of preparing food at schools, as the childhood obesity rate increases and creates a demand for healthier