UN addressing chronic disease
This Monday and Tuesday the UN had its first General Assembly on noncommunicable disease. This meeting is only the second of its kind in the history of the UN, the first being the 2001 meeting about...
View ArticleSay good-bye to the potato in school lunches?
The USDA has decided to limit the amount of potatoes that can be served in school lunches. The new legislation aimed at making school lunches healthier and combatting the childhood obesity epidemic,...
View ArticleUN statement on NCDs disappoints
As was mentioned in an earlier post, the UN met recently to discuss global solutions to the growing issue of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), which included focusing on the deathly triad of obesity,...
View ArticlePopular Food Economics Myth Debunked
Recently, our founder Jerry Hart brought a fairly recent op ed article from nytimes.com: “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper“, to my attention. While I have seen a variety of evidence showing the cost to...
View ArticleFood for Health Forum
I recently attended the Food for Health Forum, organized by Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Preston Maring. It was an excellent event held at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. The event brought together speakers from...
View ArticleUSNews Diet Rankings Illuminate
Food Policy guru Marion Nestle’s blog (foodpolitics.com) pointed me to a USNews article that ranks diets in a variety of categories, including the “best” diets for health, weight loss, diabetes and...
View ArticleLA Unified Struggles to Healthify their Lunch Menu
LA Unified School district (LAUSD) recently reinvented their lunch offerings for hundreds of thousands of qualifying students. They aimed to be a part of the fight against childhood obesity, diabetes...
View ArticleSchool Lunches: Mrs. Obama Moving in the Right Direction
First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have put into action a new set of guidelines intended to address the problem of obesity in our nation’s youth. The guidelines focus on...
View ArticleThe Pink Slime Story Continues
The pink slime story has continued to evolve with a few interesting twists. Creator of the movement against pink slime in school lunches, Bettina Siegal, has recently posted on her blog, The Lunch...
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