Wednesday, August 22, 2012
New federal guidelines will impact what your child eats at school for breakfast and lunch.
As another school year begins, school lunch will have a very different look in most schools. This fall new guidelines for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program took effect. These changes mean familiar items like pizza and fries may still be on the menu but they will likely have a different look and they definitely have a different nutrient profile. In an attempt to help teach children about good nutrition and to develop palates that enjoy healthier options, school lunch and breakfast meals must provide more fruits, vegetables and whole grains while offering low-fat or fat free milk and fat free flavored milk only. In addition to these changes the amount of saturated fat, found predominately in animal foods, must be limited as …
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Dietary guidelines for whole wheat.
The focus on overweight Americans, and the desire to turn the trend around, has resulted in many theories about the cause of the overweight and obesity trend. Suggested triggers for being overweight have ranged from sugar sweetened beverages to the latest “hot-button” gluten or wheat. With all of these “theories” what does the evidence show? The U.S. Department of Agriculture tracks the wheat crop both in terms of acres planted and in wheat consumption; data indicates that wheat consumption is on the decline. Wheat consumption fell from an estimated 146 pounds per person in 2000 to a low of 134 pounds in the mid-2000s. In 2008 consumption patterns showed a slight increase to 136.6 pounds but this per person intake is a 10.2 pound per …
Friday, April 6, 2012
Our columnist looks at whether you should eliminate sugar from your diet.
The latest hype on foods that are bad for you has risen to the level of toxicity. Is sugar toxic? Should it be eliminated? What forms of sugar are they talking about? What does this belief do to your eating plan? Over the last several weeks news reports have indicated that sugar intake is connected to obesity, hypertension and obesity resulting in the label of “toxic” being assigned to added sugars, so what are the facts? The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that we limit our intake of added sugars to between five and ten percent of our daily calories with some segments of the populations being able to consume up to 15 percent. Added sugars are defined as; high fructose corn syrup, white sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, corn …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
How new legislation impacts your student.
Each day the National School Lunch program feeds more than thirty million children in grades K-12 and while the composition of the meal is guided by very specific nutrition guidelines school lunch has been the target of much criticism. Last month the U.S. Department of Agriculture released new regulations to update the meal pattern. Starting with the 2012-13 school year the new standards will be phased into schools over a three year period. The new guidelines are the result of the growing concerns about childhood obesity and an increasing number of families who struggle to get access to enough food. As a result of this concern the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama in December of …
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