Showing posts with label child obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child obesity. Show all posts

#ThanksMichelleObama: Students use social media to voice their unhappiness with revamped school lunches

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School kids around the country are tweeting pictures of their unappetizing school lunches and blaming the most prominent advocate for health...

As school-lunch debate puts attention on rejected meals, we might consider a bigger problem: food wasted at home

thumbnail The new nutrition rules for school meals have led some students to throw away food they're served. Schools across the country are estima...

Most Kentucky schools adapting well to new federal nutrition rules, USDA official with Kentucky background says

thumbnail While one Kentucky school district has ditched the federal school-meals program and the money that comes with it, an official of the U.S. De...

KET series to explore how chemistry, technology, fast food, "supersizing," marketing, and lobbying have made us fat

thumbnail KET will air a three-part  series , "Men Who Made Us Fat," in which Jacques Peretti blames American obesity on high-fructose corn...

Appalachian Kentucky has much of what it needs to improve its poor health status, key federal officials agree

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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Appalachian Kentucky has the enthusiasm, creativity, people and facilities needed to greatly improve its di...

School nutrition beat keeps busy: Ketchup returns to Anderson County, more students eating at school in Allen County

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School meal programs continue to make news, as schools, students and parents adjust to the latest round of federal guidelines to combat chil...

Hopkinsville paper gives detailed description of federally mandated changes in Christian County school lunches

thumbnail Five years ago Christian County Public Schools served a dessert with every meal, white rolls, and vegetables with plenty of salt, Margarita...

Leaders in health care and education meet on child obesity and what can be done about it, and not just in the schools

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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Children who are physically active are likely to be better learners, but not enough Kentucky schools seem t...