Producers Agree to Send Healthier Foods to Schools
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Five of the countryÂs largest snack food producers said they would start providing more nutritious foods to schools in an effort to fight childhood obesity.
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PITTSBURGH - An expansion of a federal pilot program that provides schools with funding for fruits and vegetables might help students get as enthusiastic about brussels sprouts and broccoli as they are about pizza and ice cream, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Thursday...
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners and in vending machines.
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Sorry kids, no more big cups of fries. Next fall, students in Arlington Public Schools will find their cafeterias' culinary scales tipped in a healthier direction, with more trail mix and baked foods and fewer fried and sugary foods.
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An expansion of a federal pilot program that provides schools with funding for fruits and vegetables might help students get as enthusiastic about brussels sprouts and broccoli as they are about pizza and ice cream, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Thursday...
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Over 80% of people want subsidised fruit and vegetables to encourage healthy eating, a BBC survey has shown.
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Schools, food makers, government agencies and families themselves must work together to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity, a panel of scientists said Thursday.
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The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks for the state's high school and middle school students Friday after the publishers agreed to change the wording to depict marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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The world's biggest cereal maker Kellogg's will make its food for children healthier, amid mounting pressure.
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AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks for the state's high school and middle school students Friday after the publishers agreed to change the wording to depict marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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Chinese farm products are getting safer, the government said on Tuesday, citing tests of fruit, vegetables, meat and fish in major cities that showed more than 95 percent of products were up to standard.
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The US government, citing mounting evidence that fatty acids found in some fish cut the risk of heart disease, said Wednesday that food and supplement makers can make
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Off-campus eating may undermine school nutrition efforts.
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Pupils should be offered more healthy food, including fresh fruit and vegetables, at school dinner times, a charity's report says.
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Low-income families eat better when given vouchers to farmers' markets.
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Children will be offered cooking lessons to improve their kitchen skills and to encourage a better diet.
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Leaflets on how to make a healthy packed lunch is to be given to parents, the BBC has learned.