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Entries Tagged as 'school food'

What to do About the White Stuff: Sugar in Schools

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog, kids, Wellness

Guest Post By Susan Rubin, DMD  As a dentist  fresh out of school in the late 1980’s, I was idealistic and passionate about my new profession.  I gave lots of “tooth talks” at schools and childcare centers every February, during Children’s Dental Health month. It wasn’t until I started having kids of my own that […]

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Beyond “Museum” Gardens

April 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · garden, kids, Wellness

By Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl With all of the coverage of Michelle Obama in the news lately, you would be a fool not to think that gardens are the answer to all of our public health problems. In addition to the “White House” garden, you’ve got the new “People’s Garden” at the USDA building in D.C., you’ve […]

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You Call This Food?

April 8th, 2010 · 16 Comments · kids, Tales

I was ready to have a perfectly civilized discussion–blog-to-blog–with Sam Fromartz over at ChewsWise on the subject of what we can do to get kids to eat better when I was stopped dead in my tracks by the lunch being served at my daughter’s elementary school here in the nation’s capital. Look at the photo […]

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