Comments on: School Nutrition http://wellfed.net/2007/07/20/school-nutrition/ A network of 15 food and wine related sites. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:41:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Rebecca Scritchfield http://wellfed.net/2007/07/20/school-nutrition/#comment-32089 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:27:55 +0000 http://wellfed.net/2007/07/20/school-nutrition/#comment-32089 Interesting post! The statistics demonstrate the importance and relevance of school food service operations in the health of our nation’s children. I doubt many people would recognize schools as trailing only McDonalds when it comes to number of meals served per day. As a nutrition enthusiast concerned about the eating behaviors of kids, this information calls attention to the need to improve the food options available in school. Healthy food needs to be added and junk food needs to be minimized. I found the nutrition information for some of the new school foods exhibited at the national conference last week. The “upgraded” pizza had half the daily limit of sodium and saturated fat in just one slice – not a nutritional upgrade! You can read the posting here: http://rebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/school-cafeteria-food-upgrades/ Rebecca Scritchfield Interesting post! The statistics demonstrate the importance and relevance of school food service operations in the health of our nation’s children. I doubt many people would recognize schools as trailing only McDonalds when it comes to number of meals served per day. As a nutrition enthusiast concerned about the eating behaviors of kids, this information calls attention to the need to improve the food options available in school. Healthy food needs to be added and junk food needs to be minimized.

I found the nutrition information for some of the new school foods exhibited at the national conference last week. The “upgraded” pizza had half the daily limit of sodium and saturated fat in just one slice – not a nutritional upgrade! You can read the posting here: http://rebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/school-cafeteria-food-upgrades/

Rebecca Scritchfield

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