Are the mainstream media finally coming around to the idea that our national obsession with fat was a bad idea? In a ground-breaking article, the Los Angeles Times this week embraces the growing scientific view that the chief cause of our nation’s obesity and other dietary ills isn’t fat, as we’ve been told for the […]
On Thursday afternoon, the House approved the “Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act,” also known as the child nutrition reauthorization (CNR) bill. Having already cleared the Senate, the bill is ready for approval by President Obama, who has long supported it (along with Michelle Obama, who’s made kids’ health her policy focus). This broad piece of leglslation, which […]
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The White House is set to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide despite uncertainties over how those salad bars might be treated by local health inspectors and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that could prove a major impediment. Officials in the White House led […]
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