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School Lunch: Food Waste or Clean Plates?
If you give kids more fruits and vegetables, do they eat more? That’s a key question facing Congress as it gears up to debate legislation authorizing the National School Lunch Program and other healthy...
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National School Lunch Program: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
A March 13 article in U.S. News & World Report on the federal school nutrition standards barely gets a passing grade. Beyond misinterpreting the law, the article offers a narrow, glass-half-empty...
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School Lunch: Just Say “No” to the Opt-out Cop-out
School’s out for summer! And while the kids are away, Congress will play—this time with their food. This month, the House Appropriations subcommittee on Agriculture may begin debate on the bill to fund...
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A Single Federal Program Cut Obesity by 3% (And Saved Twice What It Cost)
A recent study by researchers at the University of Arkansas found that the federal Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program decreased childhood obesity rates in elementary schools by 3 percent at a cost of...
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Trick or Treat: U.S. Kids’ Sugar Intake Will Surely Scare You!
Think ghosts and goblins are scary? How about the fact that U.S. children consume five times the amount of sugar recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, but only about one-third the...
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Happy Fifth Anniversary to the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act!
Five years ago, on December 13, 2010, a bipartisan Congress passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA)—which brought nutrition standards for schools into accord with federal dietary guidelines....
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The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act Heads to the Senate
After years of a partisan food fight, the Senate Agriculture Committee will vote tomorrow on bipartisan legislation reauthorizing federal child nutrition programs, including taxpayer-subsidized...
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Healthiest Nation by 2030? Not Without Healthier Women and Children Today
National Public Health Week is April 4th to April 10th. To learn more about how to get engaged with National Public Health Week, follow @NPHW on #NPHW on twitter! Graphic: NPHW The American Public...
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Sonny Perdue’s School Lunch Bait-and-Switch
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue holds up his chocolate milk drink at Discovery Elementary School, in Arlington, VA, on October 18, 2018. USDA Photo by Lance...
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Reasons to Be Thankful—8 Food and Farm “Good News” Stories
Photo courtesy Jenn Vargas/FlickrSometimes gratitude feels like a stretch, and this fall has been one of those times. We’re in the home stretch of a difficult year. Bad news abounds, and even the...
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Sorry, Teacher, this Apple’s for Me
Much has been made of last week’s Congressional action blocking new school lunch nutrition rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But while Congress may call pizza a vegetable, schools...
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As School Year Ends, Will Congress Fail Lunch?
UPDATE (June 12, 3:40 p.m.): The House vote on the school nutrition waiver, expected last night, was postponed. According to reporting by the New York Times today, the vote has been delayed “until...
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Lessons from the Lunchroom: What Do We Know About School Lunch and Kids' Diet?
This week was the release of my first co-authored report at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Lessons from the Lunchroom: Childhood Obesity, School Lunch, and the Way to a Healthier Future details the...
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Who’s Against Healthy School Lunches for Kids? (No Really, Who Is?)
Debates about child nutrition and the quality of taxpayer-subsidized school lunches are heating up in the nation’s capital. Last week, the Partnership for a Healthier America (the non-profit spin-off...
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