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
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
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
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
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
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