Turning Kids On To Healthy Habits
Last Wednesday, January 25th, First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled the USDA’s new standards for school meals, the first such change in fifteen years. The new regulations, set to phase in over a three-year period beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, significantly increase the requirements for fruits, vegetables, and whole grains [...]
NEW this week in our online store! FoodPlay’s MyPlate Activity Kit for Grades K-6+ By Barbara Storper, MS, RD and Hanna Bliss 24 pages – Available in print or as a downloadable PDF This new kit introduces MyPlate with 8 fun lesson plans and reproducible student activity sheets to help children (and adults!) learn how [...]
Catherine Davis of the Georgia Prevention Institute and her colleagues conducted a study impact of exercise on brain activity and intelligence scores in 171 children, ages 7-11. The study found that the more kids exercised, the more their test scores went up. The study found that there are many benefits of exercise beyond just physical [...]
Representative Ron Kind (D-WI) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) have reintroduced a new version of their Fit Kids Act. The bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to increase a focus on physical education and activity, nutrition education, and health education. Summary of the Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act or the “FIT Kids [...]
Albert Lea Hy-Vee changed their checkout lane instead of soda, candy and chocolate to healthy snacks, such as granola bars, carrots, string cheese, flavored water and dried fruit. Since The Blue Zones lane opened, sale of the food in the healthy lane has went up by 42%, with increased sales of soy nuts, raw no-salt [...]
