A mother who thought she was sending her children to school with a decent homemade, whole-food lunch was shocked to find a penalty note from school officials informing her that the lunch of roast beef, potatoes, carrots, oranges and milk she provided was "unbalanced" and therefore had to be supplemented with Ritz crackers.
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Individual responsibility and personal freedom are becoming a thing of the past in the nation’s public schools, as strict control over what students can and cannot eat — or bring to school to eat — escalates to near-dictatorial levels. The Chicago Tribune reports that for the past six years, Little […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
And will kids now be given even more genetically modified foods in their school lunches? It may well happen—unless we take action now!
The US Department of Agriculture has published a proposed rule to review nutrition standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs as part of the Healthy, […]
by Kari Hamerschlag
New school food standards proposed last week by the Obama administration could nearly double the amount of fruits and vegetables that more than 32 million kids eat every day.
WOW!
If these standards come into force, they could set American children on a healthier eating track that could last a lifetime. The proposed rule, issued by […]
by Alan Watson
On Thursday, January 27, 2011, the federal government will release the long-awaited revised low fat2010 Dietary Guidelines, 70-plus pages of bizarre nutritional advice that, in the midst of a diabetesepidemic, do not include the words, “elevated blood sugar.”
Elevated blood sugar is a marker for diabetes. Only carbs elevate blood sugar, particularly sugary, floury products and processed grains – […]
