http://www.retireronald.org/ Value the Meal is a campaign led by Corporate Accountability International dedicated to reversing the global epidemic of diet-related disease. Launched in 2009, the campaign challenges McDonald’s and the fast food industry to curb the range of its practices that are contributing to the epidemic. The campaign’s advisory committee consists of leading experts on food and nutrition, marketing to children, and sustainable food systems.  At Value the Meal's website: www.retireronald.org you learn facts about...

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  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/all-we-can-eat/food-politics/congressman-proposes-8-b.html?wpisrc=nl_health   With Food Network star Rachael Ray at his side, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) unveiled a bill on Thursday that proposes about $8 billion in additional funding over 10 years for child nutrition programs, including school breakfast and lunch. The programs have been the main focus of Michelle Obama’s high-profile Let’s Move campaign, which aims to end childhood obesity within a generation. About one-third of American children are overweight or obese, and, in...

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http://www.campuskitchens.org/national/   The Campus Kitchens Project is an emerging leader in community service for students and resourceful anti-hunger programs for communities around the country. What we do is kind of a no-brainer. We know there are people in every community who need nourishing meals. And, we know that every college campus has unserved food in its dining halls and brilliant students in its classrooms. So we put them all together. We empower thousands of students each year...

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http://www.foodmuseum.com/issuesschoollunch.html This Food Museum shows pictures and stories of food lunch from the 1900s to 2000s. The Museum also talks about what school lunch is around the world... The Dutch model: eliminate school lunch rooms, require students to eat at their desks in the classroom with lunches they bring from home? Have teachers oversee lunch bag contents to discourage unnourishing items? The Korean model: have students dine at their desks which are moved to form...

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ISD 196 is building a better school lunch Four years of work freshening up elementary school lunch menus has paid off with some nice recognition for Independent School District 196. The district is the first in Minnesota to receive recognition in the United States Department of Agriculture’s HealthierUS School Challenge to reward excellence in nutrition and physical activity. By: Nathan Hansen, Rosemount Town Pages April 29, 2010   Fresh fruit choices are always available and...

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   http://simplegoodandtasty.com/2010/04/01/school-lunch-contest-help-us-pick-the-winner?utm_source=SGT+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6adacd8a94-What_s_Simple_Good_and_Tasty_This_Week_11_10_2009&utm_medium=email   Simple, Good and Tasty is a Minnesota food web that exists to promote local, sustainable, and organic foods and the people who produce them.  The cite is sponsering a contest for best school lunch photo.  The contest ask parents to eat school lunch with their children, take a picture of the food, and write about their experience.  It's a cool look at how different school lunches can be, and what parents think...

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When people in a specific area are more than ten times more likely to live to 100 than those who live elsewhere, odds are they're onto something.And renowned explorer Dan Buettner was determined to find them, and learn their healthy-living secrets.He dubbed the longevity hotspots "blue zones," and started an ongoing project of the same name. Buettner, the National Geographic Society and a team of scientists identify and study the regions and their common threads regarding...

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