Tag Archives: School Lunch

Weekly Round Up, 10.26.12

Good Bacteria

Here are some of the best food stories we came across this week:

  • Could Prebiotics Be Healthier Than Probiotics? – Consumers and doctors tend to think all probiotics and prebiotics are beneficial, but it’s becoming clear that they have different effects. Could prebiotics, the food for the good bacteria known as probiotics, have more benefits than a dose of the microbes, particularly for people with serious health problems like preemies? Baby formula manufacturers have started adding prebiotics. Continue reading →

Weekly Round Up, 8.10.12

School Lunch

Here are some of the best food stories we came across this week:

  • Drinking Soda May Permanently Affect Metabolism – A study published by Bangor University in England found that drinking soda impacts not only the drinker’s immediate health, but that the body responds to the added sugar by processing calories less efficiently. The soda interferes with the body’s ability to burn fat and cope with rises in blood sugar, and leads to muscles burning sugars over fats, with negative implications for long-term health. Continue reading →

Summer’s Coolest Food Truck? It Serves Kids Free Healthy Lunches

Image via Tim Cipriano, New Haven Public Schools

While childhood obesity now affects one in five kids, there’s an inverse problem that gets a lot less press: due in part to the recession, more kids than ever are food insecure and lack access to healthy, nutritious meals.

Many kids who receive free or reduced-price lunches during the school year still have access to the same food over the summer through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program, but the bulk of children don’t have the lunches because the food is only available at the school cafeteria; kids often feel stigmatized for having to go to school during summer vacation to get the free meal. Continue reading →

Weekly Round Up, 5.11.12

Farmers Market Fantasy Come True

Here are some of the best food stories we came across this week:

  • New Locavore Index Rates Top States – Using a state’s number of farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offerings per number of citizens, Vermont was deemed the best state for local eating. Iowa, Montana, Maine and Hawaii followed to complete the top five; Florida came in last, even though it grows much of the nation’s citrus, strawberries and tomatoes. Continue reading →

Weekly Roundup 1.27.12

super-food

Here are some of the best food stories we came across this week:

  • Sundance buzz for film about hunger: The people who brought you “Food, Inc.” debut “Finding North,” a film about the hunger crisis in the U.S.
  • Good news for school lunch: USDA and First Lady Michelle Obama unveil new nutrition standards for school meals. Health advocates give three cheers.
  • Whither the mackerel?: What the fate of the mackerel reveals about the larger over-fishing crisis. (“This is the last of the buffaloes,” says oceanographer Daniel Pauly.)
  • Oil matters: A study finds that all fried foods aren’t created equal — the oil you use makes a big difference.
  • Urban farming 101: A new book, The Essential Urban Farmer, covers everything you need to know for grow-your-own city living.

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