Curriculum
Universities compete for students, satisfy their professors with cross-disciplinary food studies programs that draw on explosion of food literature and link students' personal choices with labor practices, health and the environment. Food studies also underscore universities' emphasis on sustainability, in operations and in the classroom.
By Jane Black
The Washington Post 2008-08-20 (entry)
Though childhood obesity best treated by diet and exercise, data suggest that several hundred thousand children now taking medicines to treat its eventual complications, with greatest increase in Type 2 diabetes drugs. Many patients live in neighborhoods without grocery stores and attend schools that have no physical education programs. And: Series on childhood obesity (click 'See also').
By Stephanie Saul
The New York Times 2008-07-26 (entry)
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Nutrition education program reconnects students, parents, and teachers in Chicago metro area with joy, value of eating good, healthful food. Program also offers teacher training, aligned with state's standards, and parent education; pilot lunches offered were so successful that they've been incorporated into school lunches.
By Stacy Kish
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service 2008-04-03 (entry)
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British government awards fast-food chain authority to develop courses and create exams that count toward high school diploma, but colleges and universities will decide whether to accept the hamburger giant's assessments in students' admission requests.
The Associated Press 2008-01-28 (entry)
Cooking classes for teens, already in about 85 percent of UK schools, now mandated for all schools by 2011 as anti-obesity effort. Plans are under way to train 800 teachers and install equipment so children can cook and shop for simple, healthful foods, but critics say subject has been so long neglected that playing catch-up will be challenging.
By Donald MacLeod
The Guardian (UK) 2008-01-22 (entry)
With $158,300 state grant, Texas town targets children at 25 low-income schools for nutrition and fitness program to reduce incidence of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. One school will receive nutrition education consultant; others, nutritious snacks; and still others, multimedia equipment for nutrition and health education classes.
By Shirley Jinkins
Star-Telegram (TX) 2008-01-10 (entry)
In study of 63 preschoolers, researchers find that children prefer tastes of foods and drinks if they thought they were from McDonald's, with the effect stronger among children with more television sets at home and among those who eat at McDonald's more often. Results suggest that branding could improve young children's eating behaviors.
By Thomas N. Robinson, MD; Dina L. G. Borzekowski, Donna M. Matheson, and Helena C. Kraemer
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2007-08-01 (entry)
Schools, desperate for money, accept money from fast-food companies in return for printing logos on report cards and more, but those savvy marketers aren't trying to sell one Happy Meal. They're branding their products early and often in impressionable young minds to build loyalty and create lifelong customers.
By Julie Deardorff |
Chicago Tribune 2007-12-16 (entry)
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Seattle's Lettuce Link, which teaches gardening, nutrition and cooking to low-income population, helps fill coffers of food pantries and hot meal food banks whose regular donors are on summer vacation.
By Ann Lovejoy
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) 2007-08-17 (entry)
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Despite day jobs, couple hunt, fish and gather about a third of the food they eat, using a nearly comprehensive mental map of Seattle foraging spots to relish what they call unbelievably bountiful land.
By Huan Hsu
Seattle Weekly 2007-08-08 (entry)
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In groundbreaking presidential report, cancer panel calls down governmental polices that have made fruits and vegetables more expensive and less available, have limited physical education in schools and created an environment that discourages physical activity; food industry with its unhealthy food sales implicated as well.
MSNBC; Reuters 2007-08-16 (entry)
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In effort to increase demand for beef from "future consumers," Kansas beef farmers continue funding 17-year-old program for public schools that teaches cooking techniques, beef cuts, food safety, nutrition; teachers can also request additional materials to supplement beef lessons.
Cattlenetwork.com 2007-08-13 (entry)
Vermont school, working with local farmers and agricultural experts, plants garden designed to feed its 200 students homegrown vegetables at lunchtime, teaching a way of life, not only nutrition or fitness.
By Nicole Orne
Brattleboro Reformer (VT) (entry)
With school district's blessing and high school's kitchens, Illinois county extension office teaches children, 9-12, basics of cooking, components of healthful meals, table-setting skills, safety and cleaning up.
Olney Daily Mail (IL) 2007-08-02 (entry)
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