Nutritional lunches: Healthy kids in a war against childhood obesity 6 Articles

by Julie A. Hurley

School Lunch in the Era of Processed Food: To Buy or Not to Buy? This should not even be a question for most parents. But, unfortunately it is. When asked what she thought of the school lunch program in public schools, ...read more

by Dr. Audree Tucker

THE CUPCAKE CONTROVERSY Here in Florida, our local paper recently discussed The Cupcake Controversy. Our schools are now limited to offering cupcakes or cakes only three times a year. "The new elementary school guide...read more

by Shirley Gooding

We live close to both an elementary and high school. In California they have banned schools from selling sodas and junk food on campus. Vending machines are instead stocked with "healthy" choices such as fruit juice, nuts ...read more

by Brenda Coffman

An insiders look into the problems facing the national school lunch program. It screams across the nations headlines, "Childhood Obesity". Slowly the media takes careful aim at their favorite target, The National School...read more

by Jean Munoz

In the 1940's, as we began to position for WWII, many of the young recruits coming from the rural communities of America were malnourished, bone-thin and hollow-cheeked to the point of failing their physicals. To addr...read more

by Morgane Le Marchand

When Iolani High School's cafeteria serves mochiko chicken, a breaded fried chicken, for lunch, the line of anxious students snakes far out of the building and down the walkway. On those days, Danny Marks will beg math tea...read more