Study Finds School Lunches From Home Not Up To National Standards

Submitted by the Baylor College of Medicine In a study of lunches brought from home at elementary and middle schools in the Houston area, researchers at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition…

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Why School Lunches Could Be Adding To The Obesity Epidemic And What You Can Do To Help

As your child walks in from school, takes off his backpack and slumps on the couch, obviously exhausted from a full day of school, you may wonder why his energy…

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Food For Healthy Packed Lunches

By Dr. Michael Wald Around half of all children take their lunch to school – that’s 5.5 billion packed lunches every year. Unfortunately, many of them are unhealthy! According to…

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Japan’s Healthy School Lunches

From Your Health Journal…..”Earlier this week, we wrote about how obesity is much lower in Japan than the United States. Today’s review is from the Washington Post in an article…

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A Student Letter About School Lunches In The News

From Your Health Journal…..”A great article from the NewsTimes about a Kansas student who took a government class assignment to a new level. The student wrote a letter which got…

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