Happy Monday, TLT’ers! In the past few days, so many interesting news items have piled up in my in-box that I can’t possibly do them justice with individual posts. So here’s a compilation of links you ought to check out: As I mentioned on TLT’s Facebook page late last week, Whole Foods made big news [...]
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I wanted to share with you a very good article in an upcoming issue of The Nation which assesses the progress – or lack thereof – made by Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative in combating childhood obesity. In a balanced and thorough assessment of the First Lady’s efforts, the article highlights both her early gains [...]
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The controversy over the new school food calorie limits is intensifying. Just to bring everyone up to speed: the old school food regulations only had calorie minimums, which made sense given the National School Lunch Program’s original purpose of combatting childhood malnutrition. Now in an era of childhood obesity, the new lunch regulations provide both [...]
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[Hey, everyone! It's great to be back after my two-week summer break and I have lots of posts to share, including the annual "It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch" series, book reviews and more. But all of that will have to wait, because today I'm handing TLT over to a very special guest [...]
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In the almost two years I’ve been writing The Lunch Tray, I’ve told you about one dispiriting episode after another in which Big Food’s dollars and lobbying have blocked sensible and critically needed efforts to improve children’s health. (Remember how Congress, at the urging of frozen food manufacturers, agreed to continue treating pizza as a [...]
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Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, released the final federal nutrition standards for school meals, representing the first major overhaul of school food requirements in over 15 years. As with most products of the legislative process, the end result is messy and flawed but not without redeeming value. Here’s my [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, later this morning First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack will announce the USDA’s long-awaited, new school food nutrition standards. The event will take place at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, VA, a HealthierUS Schools Challenge award winner, and attendees will be treated to a healthy school lunch prepared by Rachel Ray. [...]
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On today’s Spork Report, I discuss intensive school food audit going on in my district this week. While a USDA and state “Coordinated Review Effort” is routine, it’s also a big deal and the district has been working hard for months to prepare for it. Also, as I mention in the post, tomorrow First Lady Michelle [...]
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Well, it was only a matter of time before right wing commentators would seize with glee upon news reports that LA students dislike the district’s new, healthier school food. In her post on today’s National Review Online, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin opens with this provocative lead: The road to gastric hell is paved with first lady Michelle Obama’s [...]
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Fooducate thinks so. Blogger Hemi Weingarten has a short but incisive post today critiquing the First Lady’s much anticipated keynote address at yesterday’s Partnership for a Healthier America inaugural summit. Weingarten questions why Mrs. Obama focused almost exclusively on the need for increased physical exercise when, as Weingarten persuasively argues, it’s really our children’s food environment [...]
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