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What Is Our Collective Obligation to Protect Food Allergic Children?
Last night I read a thought-provoking piece in Slate by novelist Curtis Sittenfeld in which she asks parents to take precautions at the playground to protect her food-allergic daughter and others like...
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Help Get Food Education Into Every American School!
The longer I blog on The Lunch Tray, the more I become convinced that the keys to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic and improving kids’ health rest with kids themselves. That is to say, we...
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Join Me For Tonight’s TweetChat Re: McDonald’s and School Marketing
A public school child is taught reading literacy with McDonald’s-branded materials. A teacher hands a child a McDonald’s restaurant coupon as a reward for good performance. Schools raise money...
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Michelle Obama’s School Junk Food Advertising Ban: Why I’m Not Thrilled
Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama and the USDA made headlines by announcing a proposal to ban the marketing of junk food and sugary beverages on school campuses. Timed to coincide with the fourth...
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Was I Too Quick to Condemn Ms. Obama’s School Junk Food Ad Ban?
Two days ago, I told you about proposed USDA rules, promoted by the First Lady and released on the fourth anniversary of her Let’s Move! initiative, which would curb the marketing of foods and...
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A New Guide to Getting Water Into School Cafeterias
One of the less talked about mandates of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the federal legislation overhauling school food, is a provision requiring schools to provide children with free, potable...
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Junk Food Marketing at Your Child’s School? Take a Picture!
A few weeks ago I told you about the newly released, proposed USDA rules which would use district wellness policies as a vehicle to curb junk food and beverage marketing on school campuses. (At first...
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New Study Argues Against Ban on Chocolate Milk in School Cafeterias
Researchers at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab have released a new study regarding school chocolate milk that’s getting some press. The study looked at milk consumption in 11 Oregon elementary school...
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McDonald’s Says Ronald Doesn’t Market in Schools — Then Backtracks
This past May, I was one of six concerned moms who attended the annual McDonald’s shareholder meeting in connection with Corporate Accountability International’s #MomsNotLovinIt campaign. (You can...
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School Junk Food Fundraising: a Confession and Resources for Concerned Parents
School has now started all over the country and so it’s perhaps no surprise that my inbox has suddenly started filling up with emails like this one from TLT readers concerned about school junk food...
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McDonald’s and In-School Marketing: The Clown Speaks From Both Sides of His...
The McDonald’s corporation has lately fallen on hard times, enduring seven straight months of declining domestic sales, a food safety scandal involving its Chinese meat supplier, politically motivated...
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Help a TLT Mom Out: Advocating for Change in a Hostile Food Environment
I once attended a conference for food advocates from all over the country and one of the break-out sessions was specifically for those of us working in politically conservative states. The joke was...
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95 Percent of Schools Meeting the Healthier Meal Standards
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made an announcement last week that’s particularly important given current efforts in Congress to weaken school food standards relating to whole grains, sodium and...
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A Food News Round-Up!
When I haven’t been blogging regularly, I like to share a round-up of interesting or important stories you may have missed: Parents are failing to recognize obesity in their own children, resulting in...
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McDonald’s Pulls “540 Meals” From Internet* Under Growing Barrage of Media...
On Monday, The Lunch Tray broke an exclusive story regarding a new and disturbing “nutrition education” documentary created by McDonald’s for use in schools, 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference. The...
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SIGN THE PETITION: Tell McDonald’s to Keep Its “Nutritional” Infomercial Out...
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION As many of you know, just one week ago The Lunch Tray broke an exclusive story regarding 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference, a new McDonald’s documentary intended...
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Washington Post’s Front Page Coverage of “540 Meals” and My Petition
Two weeks ago I broke an exclusive story regarding a new McDonald’s documentary for use in schools, 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference, which chronicles the experience of a teacher who ate nothing...
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56,000 Say No to “540 Meals”— and an Upcoming Segment on the Today Show!
I just wanted to update everyone on the progress of my Change.org petition regarding the new McDonald’s documentary, 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference. Since the Washington Post published its...
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My Appearance on the TODAY Show Re: McDonald’s “540 Meals”
The TODAY show ran a segment this morning regarding the new McDonald’s “nutrition education” documentary, 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference, as well as my Change.org petition seeking to keep it...
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Why “540 Meals” Fails Miserably as “Nutrition Education”
By now many of you have seen my appearance on the Today show yesterday and I want to thank everyone who left such kind and supportive comments on Facebook and Twitter. I was of course thrilled that...
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