Study finds that nutritious school lunches can raise math scores.
Does eating right make schoolchildren perform better? A team led by Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist and creator of the popular South Beach diet, presented findings at an Obesity Society meeting over the weekend showing that improving the nutritional quality of school meals bolstered the academic performance [...]

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Health.com ranks the nation’s healthiest schools based on food and nutrition, fitness and activity, health education, and healthy building materials and practices.

The average American child spends nearly 12,000 hours in school, from kindergarten through 12th grade. That’s a big chunk of time during which he or she can develop good (or bad) health habits.
Happily, schools [...]

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A new report urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to support laws that restrict junk-food advertising to kids online. Is this a solution or scapegoating?

Business Week reports on action taken by Children Now to restrict junk-food advertising to kids online.
Having successfully lobbied the government to place limits on junk food ads on TV, they now [...]

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Elizabeth Dehart is striving to eliminate obesity in the classroom; ideablob’s $10,000 prize will help her start a vending company that provides organic snacks to school kids.

Advanta Corp. announced today that Elizabeth Dehart of West Jordan, Utah, is the July winner of Ideablob.com’s monthly contest for the best small business idea, as voted on by [...]

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Peter Libby, M.D. takes society and the medical establishment to task on the issue of childhood obesity.
It’s refreshing when physicians criticize the American Academy of Pediatrics, together with Big Pharma, in addressing serious medical issues. Especially when it appears in the pages of The New York Times:
The very discussion of drug treatment to lower cholesterol [...]

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Healthy lunches can turn cafeterias into classrooms, while also influencing how kids and their parents eat at home. Here are four organizations making a difference.

Educational health problems are unique in that there is so much value to be found in the solutions, such that how we address them transcends the actual issues by becoming more [...]

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Robyn O’Brien of AllergyKids.com writes a very personal and passionate op-ed for the Denver Post about her quest to hold food giants like Monsanto more accountable.
I was raised on capitalism and the Wall Street Journal.
As a child, my family celebrated the birth of Reaganomics the way one would have celebrated the birth of a [...]

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