There would be many benefits from a national school food program, including a chance to teach children healthy eating habits that could last a lifetime. Why can’t it happen?
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The good news is that the bacteria that cause food to spoil are quite different to the bacteria that typically cause food poisoning, and generally don’t make you sick.
Up to 25% of Ecuadorian children suffer from malnutrition, and the country’s sugary school snacks aren’t helping. Kids need healthful, fresh food — not high-calorie humanitarian aid.
As Canadian kids head back to school this week, many will be hungry. Lacking fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, they will suffer mood problems, disease and low academic performance.
Students with unpaid meal debts have been experiencing some shaming policies at school. New rules are aimed at protecting these children, but the real solution may lie in free meals for all.
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school lunch table. Plenty of criticism centers on the unhealthiness of…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor, Education Studies, College of Education, University of Oregon
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Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health and Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Saint Joseph
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Associate Professor of Health Systems and Population Health, Epidemiology, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Food and Nutrition, University of Georgia
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Ph.D. Candidate in Health Services, University of Washington
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University
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Assistant Professor of Civil Society & Community Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University
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PhD Candidate in Behavioral & Community Nutrition, Virginia Tech
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
