In this age of rising food allergies and peanut-free schools, I’d long assumed that all school nurses around the country must have EpiPens on hand in case of emergency. But when a seven-year-old, peanut-allergic girl tragically died in Virginia last month due to a lack of an EpiPen, I was shocked to learn that most schools will [...]
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Those of us with kids who are, to put it mildly, a tad veggie-resistant often scratch our heads and wonder where we went wrong. In my own case, I’ve long been baffled by my son’s (now lessening, but still an issue) vegetable avoidance, given that we’re clearly doing a lot right. For example, my husband [...]
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[Ed Note: Justin Gagnon is the CEO of Choicelunch, a school food catering service in the Bay Area. We somehow "met" through The Lunch Tray and I was taken not only with Justin's passionate commitment to providing school kids with healthy, delicious and sustainable meals, but also with his nuanced and clear-headed thinking about school [...]
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If you’ve been reading TLT for a while, you know there was a time when it seemed like I was talking 24/7 about my opposition to birthday treats in school classrooms. The ubiquitous in-class birthday cupcake (or cookies or ice cream or candy) was the subject of one of my very first posts on this blog, [...]
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The current (February 7th) issue of the New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jerome Groopman, the talented New Yorker staff writer who covers health and medical issues for the magazine. Entitled “The Peanut Puzzle,” the article ponders a question currently vexing the medical community (and many parents): why are food allergies, including peanut allergies, [...]
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Lately the “Science Times” section of the New York Times is becoming my favorite section of the paper — it’s like one-stop shopping for the kid-and-food blogger! From today’s Science Times, these three items caught my eye: Kids’ Sugar Consumption and Heart Health Risk This article discusses two studies, one on second-hand smoke and one [...]
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Robin O’Brian, author of The Unhealthy Truth, posted on Facebook today this story from the Chicago Tribune regarding a seventh-grader who suffered a fatal allergic reaction to peanut oil in Chinese food brought in for a class party. According to the article, another parent of a peanut-allergic child in the class had been told that [...]
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[Ed. Note: An important aspect of "kids and food" is the issue of food allergies, which are clearly on the rise among children. We've been fortunate in that our kids appear to be food-allergy -free, so I'm always looking for guest bloggers who can speak firsthand to this issue. The Wellness Bitch, aka, Jen Maidenberg, [...]
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My sister-in-law, Lisa Siegel, is a parent of a child with severe nut allergies. She was personally responsible for waking up her children’s private school about allergy issues and is also a thoughtful writer with her own blog on the topic, “A Bite at a Time.” (Unfortunately, her blog is currently open only to a [...]
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TLT readers have chimed in now and then about food allergy issues that affect their children. We’ve been mercifully free of those problems in our house, but I thought you might be interested in this Reuters article I found yesterday. In a nutshell, the article describes the finding of Children’s Hospital in Boston that the number [...]
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