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The Real Nutrition is School Lunches
With Child Nutrition Day on October 16, 2009, perhaps now is a good time to reexamine what's being fed to the nation's children as part of school lunch programs.
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Back to School Health - Lunch Menu Options
Launched decades ago, the United States National Lunch Program has made many positive changes, but not enough to stop its contribution towards childhood obesity.
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The Farm to School Program for School Lunches
The Farm to School Program works to reverse the trend of "feeding our children to death" by connecting schools with local farms and educating children with healthy food.
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Packing a Nutritious School Lunch
Getting healthy food into your child's lunch can be challenge... especially foods that your child will eat.
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FRUIT NEWS FOR MAY
New varieties and blueberry burgers are in the news for May. Here's the rundown on the latest fruit news.
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Kids' Meals Contribute to Childhood Obesity
Only 3 percent of fast-food kids' meals meet federal dietary guidelines, says the first study to examine their nutrient quality.
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Listeria Food Poisoning Dangerous for Pregnant Women
Listeria bacteria is an increasingly common contamination of processed foods such as lunch meat, soft cheese, and processed chicken. It is particularly dangerous to pregnant women. Read how to protect yourself and your baby.
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Obama's Bring Their Personal Chef to White House
28-year-old Chicago native brings emphasis on healthy cooking using local and sustainable ingredients to the White House kitchen.
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The American Meat Processing Industry
Hamburgers, one of America's best-marketed foods, pose a health risk, especially to children. And the meat processing industry shows few signs of cleaning up its act.
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Why are Healthy School Lunch Options Unavailable
The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine calls for reform of the Child Nutrition Act - "President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I?"
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Chairs and Other School Hazards
A former teacher has invented a chair that makes it impossible for students to rock chairs and injure themselves. See this chair and learn about other school hazards.
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Bottled Water in Schools
With soft drinks gone, the beverage industry is trying to fill the void. The new campaign is to convince elementary and middle school students to buy bottled water.
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Celebrity Organic Gardeners
Celebrity gardeners attempting to grow organic flowers and vegetables face the same insect pests, weeds, and diseases as the rest of us.
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How to Become a Teacher
Regardless of your situation in life, there may be a way for you to become a teacher and touch the lives of tomorrow's leaders.
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Managing Your Child's Weight
Dieting is usually off-limits for children, but there are strategies for dealing with an overweight child.
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Schools Sending Home Fat Report Cards
The number of obese children is staggering. It's clear that something has to change. One idea is to include children's BMI on their report card.
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Carnegie Mellon University Gifted Program
The C-MITES gifted center at Carnegie Mellon offers talent searches, gifted summer programs, weekend and day camp gifted enrichment, and GATE professional development.
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College Access Programs
Obstacles can deter high school students from attending college. Programs have been created to assist in removing these obstacles.
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Corruption, Reform and Reaction: 1936-1950
During these years, Louisiana state government went back and forth between control by the "Longites" and reformers.
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Education in Louisiana: 1935-1950
During this period four governors from poor parishes in North Louisiana made great contributions to improving education for all Louisianians. The famous WPA also made wonderful contributions to education in Louisiana.
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European Study on Obesity
Obesity is becoming a greater concern in the U.S. but how do European countries compare? There is growing concern in Europe, as well.
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Memories of the Great Depression
Despite the problems and fears it has produced, it is difficult to even think of the 2008 financial and credit crisis in terms of life during the Great Depression.
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School Fuel Budget Crises
School will be starting in less than a month in many states. What effect will this have on bus transportation, heating the school and the hot lunch programs?
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The CACFP Program
A brief introduction to the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
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WE NEED YOU!! Get Involved at Your Child's School - Today!!
Whether you have a few hours a week or a few hours a month, your child, the school and the school board need you to get involved.
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Fruits in the News
Here's a bird's eye view of some happenings in the world of fruits.
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Healthy Schools for Healthy Kids
With rising obesity rates, it is clear that American children need to adopt healthier lifestyles. To encourage this, schools are stepping up to improve kids' fitness.
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Hepatitis and Strawberries
Imported strawberries sometimes are more than just berries. Microbial passengers made life miserable for some Michiganders.
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How to Prevent Overweight Kids
Twenty percent of children ages 6 to 11 in the United States are overweight or obese mainly due to poor nutrition and lack of exercise.
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The CES Express
Whether you are an architect, intern, or student, continuing education credits are a valuable way of learning more!
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Things Schools Do Besides Teach
Before a child is taught anything in school, the school system provides a service that is indispensable: it ensures that the child has been inoculated against diphtheria.
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Georgia State University Helps the Hungry
The Office of Civic Engagement has been putting out barrels throughout Georgia State University.
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Networks Blow Coverage of Texas Educational Achievement
The national media displays it Democratic bias in its coverage of a new RAND issue paper on Texas education.
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Why are we failing our children?
Is it any wonder that Cancer is the chief killer of children? That at least 250,000 American children are afflicted with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and even more with paralytic polio, and leukemia's, juvenile arthritis, heart failures? Why are we failing our children? Despite our affluence as a nation, and a scientific technology, we have reverted to the dark ages of human nutrition. And who is getting the full force of this? Our children. Let me site examples to you the how and why of what the food industry is doing to hook the children early, to insure their own future financial success.
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