One of the first lessons I teach the kids in my “food appreciation” classes is about calories. What are calories, anyway? And how much of them should we eat? To illustrate how calories work in the body, I put a torch to several different foods–broccoli, potato, marshmallow. The marshmallow, being made entirely of sugar, immediately […]
Tags:child nutrition·labeling
Terrel Hunter is on the lam. He lives in daily fear of the authorities. But it’s no actual crime Hunter has committed. His offense: He eats too much. Terrel Hunter, you see, is just a teenager. Where he belongs is in school. But he’d much rather stay home and stuff his face. So he sits […]
Tags:child nutrition·obesity
The Associated Press has conducted a review of 57 federally-fund nutritional education programs aimed at children and concluded they don’t work. The amount of funding involved is more than $1 billion. But apparently the message that fruits and vegetables are better doesn’t cut it with kids. They just keep eating junk and get fatter and […]
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