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USDA Announces Funding to Expand School Community Gardens and Garden-Based Learning Opportunities
USDA, 8.25.10
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA will establish a People's Garden School Pilot Program to develop and run community gardens at eligible high-poverty schools; teach students involved in the gardens about agriculture production practices, diet, and nutrition; and evaluate the learning outcomes.
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Report links school meals with higher attendance
House Committee on Education and Labor, 8.23.10
As schools return from their summer break, many students will again have their only chance at a healthy meal all day. And those meals are key according to a new report by Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Public Policy Peter Hinrichs.
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FDA Offers Guidance on Food-Labeling Law
Wall Street Journal, 8.24.10
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed guidelines to help restaurants comply with new food-labeling requirements. The guidelines will help the companies understand what information they need to post on their menus as part of health-care legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama, according to a press release from the FDA.
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Restaurant chains, vending machines will have to post calories
Los Angeles Times, 8.25.10
In an effort to tackle national obesity, the FDA's draft guidelines require any businesses with more than 20 locations to post the calorie information in the same size type as the menu item or price.
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Obesity: Drink till you drop: A magic elixir is shown to promote weight loss
The Economist, 8.26.10
Consume more water and you will become much healthier, goes an old wives’ tale. Drink a glass of water before meals and you will eat less, goes another. Such prescriptions seem sensible, but they have little rigorous science to back them up. Until now.
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An Apple a Day, Doctor's Orders
New York Times, 8.12.10
Doctors at three health centers in Massachusetts have begun advising patients to eat “prescription produce” from local farmers’ markets, in an effort to fight obesity in children of low-income families. Now they will give coupons amounting to $1 a day for each member of a patient’s family to promote healthy meals.
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At lunchtime, we need to help our kids get fresh
The Oregonian, 8.14.10
The child nutrition reauthorization act, passed this month by the Senate and working its way through the House, renews about 10 national programs for five years, feeds tens of millions of children (and quite a few adults) and will cost many billions of dollars, including an increase of $5 billion to $8 billion. But when Susan Barker looks at it, she sees 6 cents…. Barker, in charge of nutrition services for the Beaverton school district, sees that as a harvest.
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