Entries Tagged as 'obesity'
Launching her anti-obesity campaign–Let’s Move–last week, first lady Michelle Obama vowed to add 1 million kids to the 31 million already being served daily by federal reimbersible meal programs while cutting back on the foods kids like most–refined grains, potatoes, sugar, salt–and adding things kids like least–vegetables and whole grains. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama offered to split $1 billion per year […]
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There’s been an impressive convergence of attention on school food recently, with “Healthy Schools” legislation introduced in the D.C. Council, then my series of blog posts, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen,” detailing the woeful food being served at my daughter’s elementary school, followed by the launch this week of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign against […]
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I recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School here in the District of Columbia observing how food is prepared. This is the fourth in a six-part series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here, here and here. At 7:30 a.m., the first glimmer of daybreak tints a wall of […]
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Tags:breakfast·District of Columbia·milk·obesity·school food·sugar·Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen
