Entries Tagged as 'sugar'
The dairy industry would like to see Americans everywhere lift a glass for chocolate milk—and pour one for their kids while they’re at it. Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, sees that as a recipe for a health disaster. Willett says the nation’s schools should not be […]
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A landmark study on calcium and vitamin D nutrition recently published by the Institute of Medicine poses a serious challenge to a dairy industry campaign to sell chocolate milk to the nation’s school children, finding that only girls aged 9 to 18 might need more calcium and only by an amount contained in a half-serving […]
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The biggest news about the Child Nutrition Act pending in Congress isn’t increased funding or more vegetables and whole grains in school meals. The reason we need this bill passed now is to save children from government standards that are destroying kids’ health. Every day I visit the cafeteria in my daughter’s elementary school here in the […]
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Tags:Child Nutrition Act·Institute of Medicine·standards·sugar