Tag: child obesity
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Study: American children’s diets will cause early heart disease; Kentucky kids seem to be on the same track
Kentucky Health News A study shows that American kids are eating themselves toward early heart disease. The study, published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, looked at a...
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Research indicates that students throw away less food since new, healthier lunch rules were put in place
One of the most consistent complaints about the healthier school-lunch standards is that more food ends up in the garbage can, but a three-year study at urban middle schools says...
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Anderson schools’ lunch profit is down nearly 10 percent; officials blame new federal nutrition standards; students object to food
Anderson County school officials say new federal nutrition standards are costing them money and hurting poor students because the students don’t like how the food tastes are opting out of...
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Spending bill allows schools that show ‘hardship’ to vary from requirement to serve 100 percent whole grains
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The massive 2015 spending bill signed by President Obama Dec. 16 includes a provision to help schools struggling with the whole-grain and sodium requirements...
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#ThanksMichelleObama: Students use social media to voice their unhappiness with revamped school lunches
School kids around the country are tweeting pictures of their unappetizing school lunches and blaming the most prominent advocate for healthier school meals for their “bowls of mush and mystery...
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As school-lunch debate puts attention on rejected meals, we might consider a bigger problem: food wasted at home
The new nutrition rules for school meals have led some students to throw away food they’re served. Schools across the country are estimated to waste $1.2 billion worth of food...
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Most Kentucky schools adapting well to new federal nutrition rules, USDA official with Kentucky background says
While one Kentucky school district has ditched the federal school-meals program and the money that comes with it, an official of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food, Nutrition and Consumer...
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KET series to explore how chemistry, technology, fast food, “supersizing,” marketing, and lobbying have made us fat
KET will air a three-part series, “Men Who Made Us Fat,” in which Jacques Peretti blames American obesity on high-fructose corn syrup, fast food, “supersizing,” marketing, and lobbying. In the first episode...
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Appalachian Kentucky has much of what it needs to improve its poor health status, key federal officials agree
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Appalachian Kentucky has the enthusiasm, creativity, people and facilities needed to greatly improve its dismal health status, two high-ranking federal officials said after looking...
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School nutrition beat keeps busy: Ketchup returns to Anderson County, more students eating at school in Allen County
School meal programs continue to make news, as schools, students and parents adjust to the latest round of federal guidelines to combat childhood obesity and make sure no child goes...