Yesterday I stopped by the cafeteria at my daughter’s school here in the District of Columbia–H.D. Cooke Elementary–and this is what many of the kids were having for breakfast: A package of sugar-glazed cookies called Kellogg’s Crunchmania Cinnamon buns; chocolate- or strawberry-flavored milk; grape juice.
A 1.76-ounce packet of Crunchmania contains 13 grams of sugar, or [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sugar'
What’s for Breakfast at School Today: 13 Teaspoons of Sugar
February 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Tales, kids
Tags: "Healthy Schools"·District of Columbia·school food·sugar
Just Say No: D.C. Needs to Man Up to Sugar and Flavored Milk in Schools
February 2nd, 2010 · 8 Comments · Tales, kids
One of the most disturbing things I saw during the week I spent in the kitchen at my daughter’s elementary school recently was all the sugar being served to children. From the Pop Tarts and Apple Jacks on the breakfast line, to the fruit juice, the chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk on constant display, to the [...]
Tags: "Healthy Schools"·milk·school food·sugar·Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen
Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen: Part Four
January 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Tales, kids
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 windows in [...]
Tags: breakfast·District of Columbia·milk·obesity·school food·sugar·Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen
Heart Association Says Cut The Sugar
August 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Wellness, food news
Do Americans really consume 22 teaspoons of sugar a day? That’s 350 calories, and the American Heart Association says that’s way too much. But get this: the mean daily sugar intake among teenaged boys is more like 34 teaspoons. That’s a lot of sugar.
The AHA has issued a statement saying too much sugar is contributing to [...]
Health Food Junk
July 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Wellness, kids
The other morning as I was walking my 9-year-old daughter to summer camp at the local recreation center she begged me to stop and buy her something to eat. She was hungry, she complained. Since she had refused the smoothie of fresh berries and homemade yogurt I’d made for her that morning, I wasn’t in [...]
It’s Not the Milk, It’s the Lactose
May 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blog, kids
Just poking around the lunch room at my daughter’s charter school here in the District of Columbia I happened to look at the nutritional information on the back of an 8-ounce container of chocolate milk. Milk is a health food for children, right? Builds strong muscles and bones, right? Imagine my dismay when I saw that [...]
Tags: diabetes·insulin·lactose·milk·obesity·school lunches·sugar
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, one mile from the White House.
