New School Lunch Guidelines will mean some changes in Fayette County - WKYT 27
22 February 2012, 5:59 pm
"When I came 7 years ago, many of these practices were already in place", Coker says. So new federal guidelines requiring lunchrooms to offer foods with less fat, less sodium, more whole grains, and more fruits and veggies won't mean big changes.

Cargill Helps Customers Deliver Healthier Products That Kids Like to America's School lunchrooms - Yahoo Finance
21 February 2012, 10:39 pm
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The new standards for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program – recently announced by First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary ...

Top Level USDA Reps Showing Up in US lunchrooms - American Thinker
21 February 2012, 8:20 am
Last Monday a top United States Department of Agriculture representative showed up at a school in Richmond, Virginia to arbitrate bake sales and tater tots. Kevin Concannon, Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, sat down with ...

Beth Kassab: Taxpayers shouldn't foot bill for bad health - Orlando Sentinel
20 February 2012, 5:18 pm
Or something they think they don't like. Nowhere has that been more apparent than the lunchrooms of Lake County schools, which put a new rule into place last fall that required kids to take at least one serving of fruit or vegetables.

Flying by the Seat of My Pants - Newark Advocate
18 February 2012, 5:56 pm
We are what we eat, right? So Paula Deen is Ooey Gooey Butter Cake. And my son, who, until 6 months, was breast milk, and until age 1 was organic vegetables, is now chicken nuggets, Cheez-its and white bread with butter — regulars on the menu ...

Jeff Pearlman: Everybody Didn't Love Gary Carter - Baseball Nation
17 February 2012, 7:06 am
Pearlman (via The Wall Street Journal): Baseball clubhouses are much like junior high lunchrooms, in that the cool kids divide themselves from the un-cool; the studs distance themselves from the geeks. In the oft-ignorant, oft-shallow world of ...

Nutrition lessons in Utah, Los Angeles school lunchrooms - Daily Herald
16 February 2012, 9:02 am
Last fall, Los Angeles took a hard line on school nutrition. In an attempt to mold better eating habits in kids, the Los Angeles Unified School District eliminated flavored milk, chicken nuggets and other longtime childhood favorites. But instead of making ...

From lunchrooms to lawyers - mysouthwestga.com
13 February 2012, 10:27 pm
An independent attorney presented legal options the Dougherty County School Board has when it comes to fraudulent free school lunch applications ALBANY, GA -- The Dougherty County School Board head from an independent attorney they hired to look into legal ...

Fifth-grader with whooping cough prompts immunization clinic for as many as 90 Sturgis school children - MLive.com
8 February 2012, 2:34 pm
Fifth-grade students at Sturgis move from class to class, and in the school hallways and common areas such as lunchrooms, said Joann Wilczynski, prevention services director for the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency.

School nutrition: A kid's right to choose - Los Angeles Times
2 February 2012, 5:54 pm
As the federal government prepares to launch a similar, though less sweeping, effort to cleanse lunchrooms of troublesome foods, it's important to analyze what works — and what doesn't — in trying to get kids to eat more nutritious food. Under new ...