Jamie Oliver at his widely followed website this week linked to our sister blog, Better D.C. School Food, and news that D.C. Public Schools will no longer serve flavored milk and sugary cereals. The result was more than 100 times the usual number of visitors at the blog yesterday and more than 100 comments, almost unanimously [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sugar'
A Great Clamor for Sugar-Free Schools
June 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · kids, school food
Tags: flavored milk·sugar
Lessons from Berkeley: The Truth About Vegetables
May 17th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Berkeley, kids, school food
Might as well say it straight up: Kids don’t like vegetables.
At least most kids don’t like most vegetables most of the time. That’s the ultimate lesson I draw after spending weeks in school kitchens from Washington, D.C., to Berkeley, CA. And that certainly challenges the idea of produce as a magic elixir for the childhood [...]
What to do About the White Stuff: Sugar in Schools
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog, Wellness, kids
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 I learned [...]
Tags: school food·sugar
Sugar Linked to Heart Disease Risk
April 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · food news
We’ve always known that carbohydrates–not meat or fat–are the real risk for arterial and heart disease. But a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association points directly to sugar as a risk for bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
The study found that sugar supresses HDL, or “good” cholesterol, and raises triglyceriedes, or [...]
Tags: cholesterol·heart disease·sugar
“Healthy Schools” with a Big Lump of Sugar
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Tales, Wellness, kids, school food
“Healthy Schools” legislation written by D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh comes up for its first committee vote today after months of deliberations and with one very conspicuous missing element: no regulation of sugar in school meals.
Removing the astonishing amount of sugar served to D.C. school children every day is probably the quickest and cheapest way to make school meals [...]
Tags: "Healthy Schools"·sugar
What’s for Breakfast at School Today: 13 Teaspoons of Sugar
February 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Tales, kids
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 [...]
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 [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
