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 "Protect school food programs by eliminating the sale of soft drinks, candy bars, and foods high in calories, fat, or sugar in school buildings.
?Require that any foods that compete with school meals be consistent with federal recommendations for fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar, and sodium content.
?Develop an incentive system to encourage food stamp recipients to purchase fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other healthful foods, such as by earmarking increases in food stamp benefits for the purchase of those foods.
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?"- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "For example, in 2004, GMA helped defeat a California bill that would have set nutrition standards on school food. At every step along the way, the
GMA and its member companies have beat nutrition advocates back because they have more lobbying resources, not to mention money to offer politicians in the form of campaign contributions.
In addition to the national trade associations, individual companies have also undermined numerous state efforts."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "New Mexico: After a hard-fought battle in 2005 in the state legislature, pediatricians, school food directors and nutritionists gained approval to appoint an expert committee with the authority to establish nutrition standards for schools, with just one catch: the compromise legislation required the committee to include representatives of the beverage and food industry. At the first committee meeting, Danielle Greenburg, a doctor and obesity researcher, said that banning soft drinks in schools isn't the solution; rather, students need to be educated on how to balance what they eat." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Global Scene: UK Embarrassed into Action Other countries face similar challenges when it comes to improving school food. But rapidly rising obesity rates among British children is now prompting serious action, in part thanks to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's devastating 2005 television series on the sorry state of UK school meals. After Oliver gathered 270,000 signatures on his "Feed Me Better" petition and delivered them to Prime Minister Tony Blair, the government pledged an additional $500 million over three years to pay for such basics as kitchens and fresh ingredients for school meals." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "New York City Department of Education. "School Food." www.opt-osfns.org/osfns/. Rosenthal, Joshua. Comments made at the Instititute for Integrative Nutrition, where Connie studied, and in the UN catalogue.
Sanders-Butler, Yvonne, and Barbara Alpert. Healthy Kids, Smart Kids: The Principal-Created, Parent-Tested, Kid-Approved Nutrition Plan for Sound Bodies and Strong Minds. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Schibsted, Evantheia. "Brain Food." Edutopia website, http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/edlarticle
.php ?id=Art_l 421 &issue=dec_05. School Lunch Initiative website, http://www."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "New York City: 860,000 Meals Stress Fruits or Vegetables Serving 860,000 tasty, visually appealing, and nutritious breakfasts and lunches a day at some 1,500 schools across New York City is the challenge of Jorge Leon Collazo, executive chef of the New York City Department of Education's Office of school food." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
 "Oliver's valiant efforts to change the eating habits of primary-school children made fascinating viewing, and caused the British government to establish much stricter controls on school food standards. But he also showed how difficult it can be to wean children off junk food. As his dinner ladies pointed out, the reason they served up turkey twizzlers and other nutritionally hopeless dishes wasn't just a question of cost and convenience; it was because the children refused to eat anything else."- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "The contrast between this and the noisy eating areas, highly variable school food and junk-filled packed lunch boxes in the UK and USA (two countries with very poor social mobility) was stark. Schools in the UK try valiantly to pass on the message about healthy diets, but in deprived areas it's an uphill battle. A headteacher told me recently that, as part of a healthy food campaign, his school began to provide milk, fruit and toast for the children at break time, but the campaign was undermined because some children continued to bring in crisps, chocolate bars and sugary drinks." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
| "While nominal federal nutrition standards do exist for school meals, for all other school food sales, it's a junk food free-for-all that makes your corner mini-mart look like a health food store. Other authors have amply demonstrated how food and beverage companies market their unhealthy products incessantly to children, especially in schools.2 A 2003 government survey showed that 43 percent of elementary schools, 74 percent of middle schools, and 98 percent of high schools sold food through vending machines, snack bars, or other venues outside the federally supported school meal programs." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "The health of your child's brain has nothing to do with it.
The school food service program, including vending, used to be the responsibility of the principal, but this task was taken over by the professionals. "Where once vending was managed by principals seeking supplemental income, now amid the vending machine clatter, you can hear the sound of coins jangling right down to the bottom line of school food service department budgets."- Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children (Get the book.) |
| "The children who were getting the worst scores in 1979 were eating the school food; at the end of the five years, the children who were getting the best grades were eating the school food. But remember, the food had gotten better. If children eat good food, their scores improve. The brain is the busiest organ we have. It needs to be nourished or it won't work properly.
Schoenthaler went on. In a detention home for really bad boys in Oklahoma, he conducted a double-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study on seventy-one rough, surly male adolescents." - Lendon H. Smith, M.D., Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork (Get the book.) "The children who were getting the worst scores in 1979 were eating the school food; at the end of the five years, the children who were getting the best grades were eating the school food. But remember, the food had gotten better. If children eat good food, their scores improve. The brain is the busiest organ we have. It needs to be nourished or it won't work properly. Schoenthaler went on. In a detention home for really bad boys in Oklahoma, he conducted a double-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study on seventy-one rough, surly male adolescents." - Lendon H. Smith, Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork (Get the book.) |
| "The American school food Service Association is the national trade association that serves food service departments in school districts. Its goals are lofty, or so states their pamphlet titled The Little Big Fact Book:
For more than 50 years, school food service and nutrition professionals have fostered the educational, physical and social well-being of our nation's school children. Every school meal served is more than an isolated investment in a child; it is an investment in America itself.
Improper nutrition is not simply an issue of socioeconomic status; hunger does not discriminate." - Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children (Get the book.) |
 "Labeling is now required for packaged foods, legislation has been enacted to improve school food programs, work sites have been targeted for educational programs, and major efforts have been used to educate the publie about healthy eating. Results are not yet available, but the Brazilian effort has shown that consensus requiring the input of multiple parties (health professionals, government, businesses, schools, etc.) can be reached and that creative programs can be implemented."- Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "Both education and environmental change are important. The school food Triad: Three Barriers to a Healthy Food Environment Three barriers to healthy eating are fundamental to schools. These must be considered if schools are to become healthy places to eat. Schools Do Not Consider Healthy Eating Relevant to Their Mission What children eat has not typically been viewed as important to a school's educational mission. Providing food is often seen as a necessary service, much as custodial service might be, and is expected to generate a profit or at least break even." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "The American school food Service Association, for instance, has excellent materials not only on school lunch programs, but on general nutrition information for children and parents.56 Tugging in the opposite direction is pressure from the schools to make money. Absorbing a loss might be acceptable if needed education were occurring and the cafeteria were considered a classroom, but residing outside the educational mainstream as it does, food service must focus on income." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "In Duluth, Minnesota, the school food service director was forced to offer branded pizza (Pizza Hut and Domino's) to replace the frozen pizza they had been serving earlier. Local principals were hungry for revenue and had started competing for his "customers" by selling Little Caesars pizza in the school commons. The food service director was pleased that his move recaptured his "market share."57 Popular Foods Bring in More Money As long as schools need the extra money and selling popular food provides it, there are heavy incentives for schools to continue current practices." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) |
 "The children who were getting the worst scores in 1979 were eating the school food; at the end of the five years, the children who were getting the best grades were eating the school food. But remember, the food had gotten better. If children eat good food, their scores improve. The brain is the busiest organ we have. It needs to be nourished or it won't work properly.
Schoenthaler went on. In a detention home for really bad boys in Oklahoma, he conducted a double-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study on seventy-one rough, surly male adolescents."- Lendon H. Smith, Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork (Get the book.) "The children who were getting the worst scores in 1979 were eating the school food; at the end of the five years, the children who were getting the best grades were eating the school food. But remember, the food had gotten better. If children eat good food, their scores improve. The brain is the busiest organ we have. It needs to be nourished or it won't work properly. Schoenthaler went on. In a detention home for really bad boys in Oklahoma, he conducted a double-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study on seventy-one rough, surly male adolescents." - Lendon H. Smith, M.D., Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork (Get the book.) |
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