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First Lady Michelle Obama dines with Ocoee family
Guess who's coming to dinner? Kern Halls, Orange County Schools cooks dinner for the First Lady!
myfoxorlando.com First Lady Michelle Obama traveled the state on Friday promoting healthy eating and marking the two-year anniversary of her Let's Move campaign against childhood obesity.
USDA sets guidelines for healthier school meals
Hidden Healthies applauds the new guidelines. Our line of veggie-infused soups and sauces are an excellent way to get more vegetables in cafeteria lunches - and kids love the taste so it doesn't end up in the trash.
foxnews.com School meals for millions of children will be healthier under obesity-fighting U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) standards unveiled on Wednesday that double the amount of fruits and vegetables in cafeteria lunches - but won't pull French fries from the menu
L.A. schools' healthful school lunches panned by LAUSD students
articles.latimes.com It's lunchtime at Van Nuys High School and students stream into the cafeteria to check out the day's fare: black bean burgers, tostada salad, fresh pears and other items on a new healthful menu...
2011 Golden Carrot Award Winners / Healthy School Lunches
healthyschoollunches.org 2011 Golden Carrot Award Winners: PCRM established the Golden Carrot Awards in 2004 to recognize food service professionals doing an exceptional job of improving the healthfulness of school lunches.
School Nutrition’s Secret Shopper: Mission Nashville
Hidden Healthies goes TWO for TWO as "Most exciting items" displayed at the School Nutrition Association's National Conference. We are honored to have our products recognized out of the thousands that are on display.
schoolnutrition.org For the second straight year, at SNA’s Annual National Conference (ANC), School Nutrition magazine assembled a discerning group of “Secret Shoppers,” who were charged with seeking out the most exciting items on display in the Exhibit Hall in Nashville. Each year, the magazine’s shoppers are given a ...
Senate moves to keep school-lunch taters safe from regulators
US Senate makes a good call!
dailycaller.com Denise Austin and Napoleon Dynamite can breathe a sigh of relief this morning: The U.S. Senate has taken action to save their favorite food from the Obama administration's health initiatives. On Tu
Stealthy Vegetables: Getting Children to Eat More
Another study backs up the premise behind Hidden Healthies!
nytimes.com A study finds that when puréed zucchini, broccoli, tomatoes, cauliflower and squash are added to foods, children really don’t seem to mind.
Adding Food and Subtracting Calories
NY Times article discusses recent scientific research on the benefits of pureed vegetables in foods. Link to The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition provided below.
well.blogs.nytimes.com Eating more foods like cayenne pepper and pureed vegetables can suppress appetite and lead to the consumption of fewer calories.
Hidden vegetables: an effective strategy to reduce energy intake and increase vegetable intake in ad
Research published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
ajcn.org ↵3 Address correspondence to BJ Rolls, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 226 Henderson Building, University Park, PA 16802. E-mail: bjr4{at}psu.edu.
Parents, Principals Don't Like School Lunch Rules
time.com The war on obesity has the USDA proposing sweeping new regulations. One problem: it's not exactly funding all of those changes
Potato consumption may boost children's diet quality, suggests study
foodnavigator-usa.com Children who regularly consume non-fried potatoes may have more nutritious diets overall, suggests new research presented at the Experimental Biology conference in Washington, D.C.
Beneficial nutrients seen as more important than negative, finds study
foodnavigator.com Consumers consider the level of beneficial nutrients as more important when selecting food products than energy, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt, which should be consumed in moderation, according to a new study that could help inform food labelling debates.
Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home
chicagotribune.com Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.
The whole foods movement: ‘Age of the unthinkable’ for processed foods?
More affirmation that Hidden Healthies is on the right track.
foodnavigator-usa.com American consumers are rejecting processed and functional foods and embracing whole foods – and industry needs to react with innovative formulation, according to a presentation at the recent Nutracon conference.
Food and Health Communications Food Blog » Hidden Veggies Lower Calories
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Smile when you eat veggies — your kid is watching
msnbc.msn.com If you want your kids to eat their broccoli, you might try smiling when you eat your own veggies, a small study suggests.
USDA funds more fruits and veggies for school kids
msnbc.msn.com State agencies will get more federal funding to provide fresh fruits and vegetables at schools, the Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday.
You can lead kids to broccoli, but you can't make them eat - Chicago Tribune
articles.chicagotribune.com Anyone who has ever tried to sneak healthy food into kids' lunches knows what Chicago Public Schools is going through. Sometimes kids openly embrace the new food. Sometimes they eat it without
‘Restricted diet’ linked to reduction in ADHD: Study
This sounds like something worth exploring further! Children with ADHD were put on a ‘restricted elimination diet’ – containing only rice, meat, vegetables, pears and water – for five weeks. The authors found that ADHD symptoms were reduced in 78 per cent of children placed on the diet.
foodnavigator-usa.com A restrictive diet, which bans processed foods, may reduce the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in young children, according to a new study.
School milk consumption could reduce adult colon cancer, study
dairyreporter.com Consumption of school milk is associated with a reduction in adult colon cancer, according to a new study.
The kids' table: Are covert veggies the right approach?
Hidden Healthies agrees with both sides of this argument. It's important for kids to have veggies on their plate, but they still don't eat enough in a day. What's wrong with getting veggies in their marinara and cheese sauce too?
chicagotribune.com One way to get kids to eat their vegetables is to hide them in other foods — a stealth approach popularized a few years ago by Jessica Seinfeld, who wrote "Deceptively Delicious."
‘Eat less’: A difficult message for industry
foodnavigator-usa.com The new dietary guidelines give the food industry the clearest map yet of what is necessary for a healthy diet – but no one is fooled by assertions that industry is already in line.
Celiac disease may have little influence on soaring gluten free market
foodnavigator-usa.com Packaged Facts says the US market for gluten free products is growing faster than expected – but few consumers buy gluten free foods to address celiac disease or dietary intolerances.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010
Link to view USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines
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USDA releases 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
foodnavigator-usa.com The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated the Dietary Guidelines for Americans for the first time since 2005, with a number of small changes that could make a big difference for the food industry.
The naked truth about kids’ food advertising
foodnavigator-usa.com It was an Emperor’s New Clothes moment for the US food industry last week, when it was revealed that a major initiative touting its responsible advertising to kids actually allows promotion of many unhealthy foods. Is anyone really surprised?
Food manufacturers back healthy school meals project
foodnavigator-usa.com Major food manufacturers have backed a project uniting several industries to help provide more affordable healthy school meals, driven by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
http://www.schoolnutrition.org/Blog.aspx?id=14917&blogid=622
BIG changes proposed to the nutrition standards for school meals
schoolnutrition.org January 13, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a proposed rule that would update the nutrition standards for meals served through the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. The proposed rule is based on the Institute of Medicine guidelines that were released
Calorie contents may influence taste and satiety: Study
foodnavigator-usa.com The calorific content of drinks may influence satiety by affecting taste activation in the brain, according to new research.
‘Processed’ food doesn’t have to mean unhealthy food, says industry
“Taste is king, followed very closely by price. But we are beginning to see healthfulness starting to eclipse convenience as a priority for consumers and this is a big change,” - Melissa Musiker, director of science policy, nutrition and health at the Grocery Manufacturers Association
foodnavigator-usa.com Consumer understanding of ‘processed foods’ needs to expand to take into account healthier products being introduced by industry, according to a presentation at the American Dietetic Association conference in Boston.
Dietary Guidelines may reduce allowance for salt and sodium
washingtonpost.com How much is 1,500 mg of sodium? If a federal advisory committee has its way, it will be the recommended daily amount adults should consume, down from 2,300, when the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 are updated in December. Put in real-food terms, it could mean: Cheerios with skim milk and o...
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LA Unified says "No" to Jamie Oliver/ABC
The Mom Motivation
Hidden Healthies in the News - Lori interviewed by Angela Haines for Huffington Post
huffingtonpost.com A new breed of entrepreneurs is gaining steam: moms who decide to create new businesses after giving birth. While pundits ponder why women are underrepresented in corporate leadership, despite the fact that women now account for the majority of the workforce, these "mompreneurs" find opportunity, ra
Vegetables in the Spotlight - Readers Weigh In - Jane E. Brody
Learning to Love Veggies
nytimes.com Hundreds of readers offered advice on how to entice Americans to eat more vegetables.