Holidays tend to be synonymous with extra calories and decreased physical activity. People may consume more because of food served at holiday parties or given as gifts, possibly due to stress, be it financial or relational, or because many of …
Hands-On Nutrition Education: No Field Trip Required!
Extending the learning environment beyond the classroom is a great way to engage students with hands-on activities and fresh perspectives and you don’t have to leave the school grounds to provide students with valuable hands-on nutrition education! The food service …
Five Things to Know About “Water in Schools”
What is “Water in Schools”?
Water in Schools is a project sponsored by the California Department of Health and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Water in Schools seeks to increase accessibility to water by suggesting innovative …
Think Breakfast!– Increasing Breakfast Consumption in New York State
We have all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. We have all heard that obesity is becoming epidemic among our children. We all want to do what is best for our kids. To facilitate this, …
Let’s Go! Improving School Meals – Lessons From the Field
Let’s Go! Background:
Let’s Go! is a nationally-recognized childhood obesity prevention program committed to significantly decreasing childhood obesity rates in Maine by increasing healthy eating and active living in children from birth to age 18. Since 2006, Let’s Go! has …
Making “Smarter Schools” Healthier with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation
As many schools are implementing the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and nudging students toward healthier choices, take a minute to think about what is happening in the rest of the school environment. Are students actively engaged in physical activity throughout the …
Breakfast and the Brain: How Eating Breakfast Impacts School Performance
The claim that breakfast is the most important meal of the day has an abundance of sound science behind it. A brief compiled by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) outlines the correlation between breakfast and school performance among …
An Introduction to: Team Nutrition
Vision
In 1995, the School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children regulations updated nutrition standards to ensure that school meals were consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The USDA recognized that schools needed help putting these rules into action. School …
An Introduction to Share Our Strength
Background
Share Our Strength began in the basement of a row house on Capitol Hill in 1984, in response to the ‘84-‘85 famine in Ethiopia. Moved by the famine, siblings Billy and Debbie Shore founded Share Our Strength to help …
Gourmet School Lunches with Chefs Move to Schools
First Lady Michelle Obama is calling on chefs to join the fight against childhood obesity by adopting a school and working with teachers, parents, school nutrition professionals, and administrators to show students that healthy eating can be fun. The Chefs …