Theodore's+Links


 * SANITATION**

1. [|How to Fix School Lunch**.**] By: Tyre, Peg; Staveley-O'carroll, Sarah//. Newsweek//, 8/8/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 6, p50-51, 2p Notes: This article describes the efforts of some activists and celebrity chefs to improve the food served in school cafeterias in the United States. For Jorge Collazo, executive chef for the New York City public schools, coming up with the perfect jerk sauce is yet another step toward making the 1.1 million school kids he serves healthier. Collazo and scores of others across the country--celebrity chefs and lunch ladies, district superintendents and politicians--say they're determined to improve what kids eat in school. English celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, took over a school cafeteria in a working-class suburb of London and shamed the British government into revamping its school-food program. More than a decade ago, when local restaurateur Lynn Walters lobbied school-board members in Santa Fe, N.M., to provide kids with healthy alternatives to soggy pizza, they refused. Walters persisted and found that the schools were not equipped to prepare food, but only to reheat it. In Concord, N.H., Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company, discovered that the vending machines in his son's school were full of soda and candy. He devised a vending machine that stocked healthy snacks: yogurt smoothies, fruit leathers and whole-wheat pretzels. California, New York and Texas have passed new laws that limit junk food sold on school grounds.

2. [] Notes: This site explains how to fix school lunches, choose better food choices, feel better after eating that food, and how your overall healthiness can change from these new decisions.


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1. [|HEALTH CHECKS ON PUPILS' LUNCHES.] //Daily Mail//, 1/24/2008, p4, 1/8p Notes: Schools will soon be required to check students’ lunch boxes or bags to ensure healthy food choices are being made. The food sometimes brought from home is unhealthy, consisting of only sweets, or junk food items that won’t give the students enough energy to last throughout the day.

2. [|Most school lunches to go up 25 cents: Rising wholesale food prices prompt Pueblo City Schools to raise prices for many meals.] By: Norton, John//. Pueblo Chieftain, The (CO)//, 07/23/2008 (//AN 2W62W6501224005//) Notes: The prices of school lunches have risen, affecting the prices of wholesale foods. At Pueblo City Schools, desserts were even cut out to examine the menus and eliminate any unpopular food items.

3. [|Rethinking School Lunch.] By: Voiland, Adam//. U.S. News & World Report//, 11/3/2008, Vol. 145 Issue 10, p65-65, 1/3p Notes: The article presents information drawn from cardiologist Arthur Agatston's research about the impact of school lunches on students' academic performance. Agatston installed the Healthier Options for Public Schoolchildren program (HOPS) in certain schools to compete with the U.S. National School Lunch Program. The results indicate that HOPS lunches, which feature less meat and cheese, more whole grains, and more fruits and vegetables, improve students' weight levels and even mathematics scores.

4. [|Lunch Line**.**] By: Bogo, Jennifer//. E - The Environmental Magazine//, Mar/Apr2001, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p19, 3p Notes: Discusses the food program policy of Berkeley Unified School District in California designed to provide healthy meals to students. The role of organic foods and organic farming in the policy has the responsibility of schools in students' food; Actions taken to help kids avoid eating junk foods. These actions that help students to become healthier, and smarter are also helping our environment.

5. [|How to Fix School Lunch**.**] By: Tyre, Peg; Staveley-O'carroll, Sarah//. Newsweek//, 8/8/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 6, p50-51, 2p Notes: This article describes the efforts of some activists and celebrity chefs to improve the food served in school cafeterias in the United States. For Jorge Collazo, executive chef for the New York City public schools, coming up with the perfect jerk sauce is yet another step toward making the 1.1 million school kids he serves healthier. Collazo and scores of others across the country--celebrity chefs and lunch ladies, district superintendents and politicians--say they're determined to improve what kids eat in school. English celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, took over a school cafeteria in a working-class suburb of London and shamed the British government into revamping its school-food program. More than a decade ago, when local restaurateur Lynn Walters lobbied school-board members in Santa Fe, N.M., to provide kids with healthy alternatives to soggy pizza, they refused. Walters persisted and found that the schools were not equipped to prepare food, but only to reheat it. In Concord, N.H., Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company, discovered that the vending machines in his son's school were full of soda and candy. He devised a vending machine that stocked healthy snacks: yogurt smoothies, fruit leathers and whole-wheat pretzels. California, New York and Texas have passed new laws that limit junk food sold on school grounds.

6. [] Notes: This site explains all about the national school lunch program, how it works, what the nutritional requirements for the lunches served are, and about the reduced cost or free lunch programs, etc.

7. [] Notes: This site explains how to fix school lunches, choose better food choices, feel better after eating that food, and how your overall healthiness can change from these new decisions.

8. [] Notes: This site is all for fighting world hunger in America. People organized this site to explain how to help the crisis taking place all over the world and are talking about child and adult nutrition facts and comparing them with the amount people get over in other countries. This site also contains news articles/stories that were written about food, nutrition facts, and what other states/people are doing to help stop world hunger.


 * EXPIRED**

 1. [|How to Fix School Lunch**.**] By: Tyre, Peg; Staveley-O'carroll, Sarah//. Newsweek//, 8/8/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 6, p50-51, 2p Notes: This article describes the efforts of some activists and celebrity chefs to improve the food served in school cafeterias in the United States. For Jorge Collazo, executive chef for the New York City public schools, coming up with the perfect jerk sauce is yet another step toward making the 1.1 million school kids he serves healthier. Collazo and scores of others across the country--celebrity chefs and lunch ladies, district superintendents and politicians--say they're determined to improve what kids eat in school. English celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, took over a school cafeteria in a working-class suburb of London and shamed the British government into revamping its school-food program. More than a decade ago, when local restaurateur Lynn Walters lobbied school-board members in Santa Fe, N.M., to provide kids with healthy alternatives to soggy pizza, they refused. Walters persisted and found that the schools were not equipped to prepare food, but only to reheat it. In Concord, N.H., Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company, discovered that the vending machines in his son's school were full of soda and candy. He devised a vending machine that stocked healthy snacks: yogurt smoothies, fruit leathers and whole-wheat pretzels. California, New York and Texas have passed new laws that limit junk food sold on school grounds.

2. [] Notes: This site explains how to fix school lunches, choose better food choices, feel better after eating that food, and how your overall healthiness can change from these new decisions.


 * LUNCHES LINES**

1. [|HEALTH CHECKS ON PUPILS' LUNCHES.] //Daily Mail//, 1/24/2008, p4, 1/8p Notes: Schools will soon be required to check students’ lunch boxes or bags to ensure healthy food choices are being made. The food sometimes brought from home is unhealthy, consisting of only sweets, or junk food items that won’t give the students enough energy to last throughout the day.


 * VARIETY**

1. [|A+ nutrition: Anniston's school lunch program gets high marks for health] By: Bell, Michael A//. Anniston Star, The (AL)//, 02/12/2009 //(AN 2W62W64145217680//) Notes: Anniston school changes its food serving ways and gets top marks for it. The cafeteria food served in that school was too salty, so they changed the items on the menu to include food that was less salty, healthier and even reduced the price of the ingredients they needed to buy.

2. [|What's More Healthy, Cafeteria Or Packed Lunch?] By: Sager, Michele//. Tampa Tribune (FL)//, 02/03/2009 (//AN 2W62W62982487813//) Notes: There are many different food choices to choose from in school, but that doesn’t mean that students are choosing the right ones. Also, packed lunches aren’t always healthier ones. The food that is brought from home can contain high amounts of sodium or fat, making the food unhealthy as students eating only the desserts and snacks on their tray.

3. [|HEALTH CHECKS ON PUPILS' LUNCHES.] //Daily Mail//, 1/24/2008, p4, 1/8p Notes: Schools will soon be required to check students’ lunch boxes or bags to ensure healthy food choices are being made. The food sometimes brought from home is unhealthy, consisting of only sweets, or junk food items that won’t give the students enough energy to last throughout the day.

4. [|EDITORIAL: Snack attack] //Boston// //Globe (1997 to 2005)//, 04/29/2007 (//AN 2W62W61747462184//) Notes: Schools are expected to serve only healthy snacks, not ones that would degrade the quality and healthiness of the lunches that have been extravagantly prepared for the students. Schools serve all kinds of snacks at the snack bar, but that doesn’t mean that the students are actually choosing healthy ones to eat.

5. [|Rethinking School Lunch.] By: Voiland, Adam//. U.S. News & World Report//, 11/3/2008, Vol. 145 Issue 10, p65-65, 1/3p Notes: The article presents information drawn from cardiologist Arthur Agatston's research about the impact of school lunches on students' academic performance. Agatston installed the Healthier Options for Public Schoolchildren program (HOPS) in certain schools to compete with the U.S. National School Lunch Program. The results indicate that HOPS lunches, which feature less meat and cheese, more whole grains, and more fruits and vegetables, improve students' weight levels and even mathematics scores.

6. [|How to Fix School Lunch**.**] By: Tyre, Peg; Staveley-O'carroll, Sarah//. Newsweek//, 8/8/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 6, p50-51, 2p Notes: This article describes the efforts of some activists and celebrity chefs to improve the food served in school cafeterias in the United States. For Jorge Collazo, executive chef for the New York City public schools, coming up with the perfect jerk sauce is yet another step toward making the 1.1 million school kids he serves healthier. Collazo and scores of others across the country--celebrity chefs and lunch ladies, district superintendents and politicians--say they're determined to improve what kids eat in school. English celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, took over a school cafeteria in a working-class suburb of London and shamed the British government into revamping its school-food program. More than a decade ago, when local restaurateur Lynn Walters lobbied school-board members in Santa Fe, N.M., to provide kids with healthy alternatives to soggy pizza, they refused. Walters persisted and found that the schools were not equipped to prepare food, but only to reheat it. In Concord, N.H., Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, a yogurt company, discovered that the vending machines in his son's school were full of soda and candy. He devised a vending machine that stocked healthy snacks: yogurt smoothies, fruit leathers and whole-wheat pretzels. California, New York and Texas have passed new laws that limit junk food sold on school grounds.

7. [] Notes: This site explains all about the national school lunch program, how it works, what the nutritional requirements for the lunches served are, and about the reduced cost or free lunch programs, etc.

8. [] Notes: This site explains how to fix school lunches, choose better food choices, feel better after eating that food, and how your overall healthiness can change from these new decisions.

9. [] Notes: This site is all for fighting world hunger in America. People organized this site to explain how to help the crisis taking place all over the world and are talking about child and adult nutrition facts and comparing them with the amount people get over in other countries. This site also contains news articles/stories that were written about food, nutrition facts, and what other states/people are doing to help stop world hunger.