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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...

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Say 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,...

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UN 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,...

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Popular 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...

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Food 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...

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USNews 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...

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LA 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...

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School 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...

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The 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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