There are many ways that a limited food budget can include items that are both delicious and nutritious. Here are five tips that low-income families and adults can use to help save money while eating a variety of healthy foods.…
Nutrition Program Spotlight: Wholesome Waves’ Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program
Overview
Wholesome Wave is a non-profit organization with a vision of making local and healthy foods affordable and accessible to all, and is particularly focused on underserved communities. In 2010, they piloted the Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program ® (also …
5 Benefits of Getting Involved with Schools: for Health Professionals
Health professionals are busy people. With everything they have to do already, many ask: why should I get involved with one more thing? Getting involved with school systems will provide many benefits to a health professional while also helping the …
Show Me the Research! 10 Studies on the Importance of The National School Lunch Program
Since childhood obesity has tripled over the past thirty years, critics of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have suggested that the program contributed to this trend. Since the program serves nearly 32 million children daily, and operates in over …
Healthy School Foods Reinforce Health and More!
Good nutrition is important to health especially for children as they grow and develop habits that will last a lifetime. Healthy food offered at school contributes to children’s academic success, growth and development of health habits. Below are some tips, …
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, …
Make an Impact with the Healthier School US Challenge
The Healthier US School Challenge (HUSSC) is a voluntary initiative developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to recognize schools who are participating in the National School Lunch Program that are for creating a healthier school environment by …
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 …
Eating Practices at Home: Parents’ Perception
Encouraging healthy eating practices at home provides a model for children that instills long term healthy eating behaviors.
In the fall of 2012, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health collaborated with National Public Radio and the Robert Wood Johnson …
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 …