Fri, March 12, 2010

The “French Paradox” starts in Preschool

Posted 1 week, 6 days ago

If I seem stuck on the subject of school lunch reform lately, I apologize. The issue is in the air, that’s for sure. The other day I read about a public school teacher in the midwest who is eating her lunch in the cafeteria every day as a form of protest. (She’s blogging about it and posting…

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Jamie Oliver’s Anti-Obesity Rant

Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago

During his 18 minute TED talk, British chef and anti-obesity crusader Jamie Oliver illustrates America’s obesity epidemic with photographs of morbidly overweight young Americans who are “eating their livers to death.”

It sounds melodramatic until you realize he’s right. And if his…

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Michelle Obama Announces “Let’s Move” Campaign to Topple Childhood Obesity

Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Several things struck me about First Lady Michelle Obama’s remarks yesterday about the administration’s new “Let’s Move” campaign, which aims to fight childhood obesity. (One in three American children are obese, in case you’ve been living under a rock.) Number one: she’s so right that parents…

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