You can’t blog about kids and food and not address the looming question that comes around every year at this time: what to do about all that candy? Last year was my first Halloween blogging here on The Lunch Tray and I tackled that knotty question in two parts. First, I justified (shakily) my own [...]
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In my post yesterday responding to Mark Bittman’s op-ed on food taxes, I cited a 2011 OECD study which ranked America dead last among twenty nations surveyed in terms of time spent cooking — Americans currently devote, on average, only thirty minutes or less each day in food preparation. So the findings of a new [...]
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The Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute, two major food industry trade groups, announce today that they will soon begin implementing a new program called “Nutrition Keys,” which will put nutrition information on the front of product packages. Here’s an example of what the new labeling will look like: While this might sound [...]
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Over the weekend I finished former FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s book, The End of Overeating. Although the book isn’t about “kids and food” per se, I wanted to share some research he cites regarding children and what he calls “conditioned hypereating.” According to Kessler, we’ve known for a long time that infants and preschool children [...]
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For today’s buffet, some interesting – and distressing – obesity-related news: More Americans Than Ever Are Obese The New York Times reported on Tuesday that “Americans are continuing to get fatter and fatter, with obesity rates reaching 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to only three states in 2007. . . [...]
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As readers of my About page know, one big reason I started this blog was my consciousness-raising discovery of Janet Poppendieck’s new book, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America. I’ve mentioned that book here so often, you can all be forgiven for assuming that Ms. Poppendieck and I are secretly related, or that [...]
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Last year, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler came out with a book in which he posited that the food industry, somewhat like the tobacco industry before it, has perfected the ability to make consumers crave their products through the excessive use of salt, fat and sugar. I haven’t yet gotten around to reading the [...]
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