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• My Secret to Good Health - Memories of Me Monday

  
  Debz Talkin — Authority: 111
  TODAYS MEMORY JOGGER:  "What is your secret or recipe for good health?" When I was in the 6th grade I joined a diet club to lose weight (Ive always had the vaguely held idea that if you stayed slim you stayed healthy). Actually, my two best friends, Judy Rich and Jill Brunson and I created the club ourselves.  We ...
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• Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver Wins Dream Prize

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 501
  “Jamie Oliver, celebrity chef and standard-bearer in the fight against obesity and other diet related issues, has been announced as the recipient of the 2010 TED Prize, an award granting recipients $100,000 and something much bigger – an opportunity to realize a wish to change the world.” read more… People ...
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• 26,500 schools failed to get mandatory number of kitchen inspections last year

  
  Kentucky School News and Commentary — Authority: 437
  This from the Rural Blog : The Child Nutrition Act requires school kitchens be inspected at least twice a year, but USA Today reports 18,000 schools only had one inspection last year and 8,500 more didnt have any. The latest report is part of the newspapers ongoing series on school lunch safety. Data from the U.S ...
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• UK School Kids Ditch Junk Food for Vegetables They Grow

  
  Eco Child's Play — Authority: 126
  Photo by Monica R. Practical food education begins at an early age. I’ve long advocated for gardening with kids , not only to connect children closer with nature but to improve their diet. Food for Life Partnership , “a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food ...
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• Johnny Can You Spell Salmonella? U.S. School Lunch vs. Jack in the Box

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 572
  How is it that a country can put a man on the moon, but can’t seem to feed it’s children school lunches that are safer than those eaten at McDonald’s or Jack in the Box? In the past 10 years more than 23,000 school children have become sick as a result of hundreds of food poisoning outbreaks in our nation’s ...
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• Getting OUT and Up to Walk for Diabetes

  
  Into the Outside — Authority: 119
  Carly Jatske and John McGahan deal with diabetes every day. However, on this day, they werent alone. On one day in early November, the Samuel Mickle School in Mickleton held a Walk for Diabetes with Jatske and McGahan leading the pace. "It made me feel like they care and understand more about us," said Jatske, a ...
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• Is Fast-Food Better than School Lunches?

  
  Edu in Review Blog — Authority: 125
  Imagine sitting down at a table and having to choose between a brown paper bag full of hamburgers and chicken sandwiches from a local fast food joint or a school cafeteria tray loaded up with lasagna and mashed potatoes. Which one would you think is healthier and meets the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...
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• Public school lunch worse than fast food

  
  Homeland Stupidity — Authority: 500
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture is buying beef and chicken to serve to your children in public school that fast-food chains reject as poor quality or even unsafe. An investigation by USA TODAY found that quality and safety standards used by fast food chains were much more stringent than those the government ...
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• Fast Food Hamburgers Safer Than School Lunches

  
  Eco Child's Play — Authority: 126
  Photo by ZeroOne Fast food meat is safer than school lunches. Fast food is notorious for its high calories and fat content ; however, a new study has found the meat served by restaurant chains, such as McDonald’s, is actually safer than the hamburgers served in school lunches .  It is not that fast food, ...
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• Why I’d Rather Feed My Child Dirt Than a School Lunch

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  David Cassuto I’ve been trying to figure out what it says about this country that McDonalds  sets higher standards for its flesh products than the USDA does for school lunch programs. At a minimum, it says that we care almost as little about our children as we do about the animals we torture and slaughter to ...
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• Healthy Monday: Integrate Nutrition Today!

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 423
  From our friends at Meatless Monday. .. Joshua Rosenthal is the founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition . Integrative Nutrition is the world’s largest nutrition school, training students to become certified health counselors since 1992. It is the only school that teaches over 100 dietary ...
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• 3 Tips to Take Control of Fat Bottoms and Your Bottom Line!

  
  AllergyKids Blog — Authority: 106
  Today’s headlines scream for a health makeover. As the poor are being turned away from free cancer screenings , the US buckles under the weight of obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control , during the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. In 2008, only one ...
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  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 423
  Fix-ated on the Wrong Solutions? This week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a new report called No Sure Fix on the ability (or lack thereof) of biotechnology to decrease the abuse of nitrogen fertilizers. Local Going Global Check out this cool new collection of local business case studies from BALLE ...
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• Dog Food May be More Nutritious than School Lunches

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 135
  Maybe Lassies Willing to share Her Alpo Fussy moms who worry about what Junior may be eating in the school cafeteria might be better off sending him to school with a can of dog food.  A recent investigation of the school lunch program by USA Today revealed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is supplying ...
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• The Week in Review: Money Issues #67

  
  MoneyRemix — Authority: 118
  “ The Week in Review: Money Issues ” is my weekly blog research on financial topics that define us as Americans, and shape the way we should do business. Man, what a week I just had! Ok, here goes the cool part: I was chilling in Key West, and got to live the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle for a while (I mean BEFORE ...
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• Expel chocolate milk from school lunches: activist (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AFP - Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said.
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• Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches

  
  Kentucky School News and Commentary — Authority: 437
  This from USA Today : In the past three years, the government has provided the nations schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldnt meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY ...
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• 2009/12/10

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 487
  The limits Jack in the Box sets for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school lunches : The kids are also eating chicken that KFC and Campbell Soup won’t touch. Cancer Society is more open to alternative therapies : Publishes massive reference book. ...
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• Tiger, the USDA and Health Care Reform: Only Catcalls

  
  Yo Mama For Obama — Authority: 121
  I have been out of touch because my computer was in the shop.  It seems it was all virused up, kind of like our country.  Go figure.  But I learned a good lesson this week, having been sans computer: I started reading books again in longer segments than thirty-second bytes.  Furthermore, most news articles, ...
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• National School Lunch Has Lower Standards Than Fast Food

  
  YumSugar — Authority: 636
  If you cant fathom putting fast food into your body , then imagine what it must be like to eat lunch at one of our nations public schools. According to an investigation by USA Today , when it comes to food safety, fast food chains such as McDonalds, Burger King, and Jack in the Box perform more diligence than the ...
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