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Meatless competition challenges chefs

 Jun. 17, 2014

For the third year in a row, North Shore-LIJ Health System, in New York, staged its Ultimate Chef Challenge among the system’s 13 healthcare facilities.

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Connecticut schools will keep chocolate milk on menus

 Jun. 17, 2014

To the vast relief of school kids, nutritionists, milk producers and lawmakers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy used his veto power Thursday to kill a bill that would have banned chocolate milk sales in Connecticut schools.

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Hospital vending machines go healthy

Jun. 16, 2014

Vending machines at the Franciscan Alliance hospitals have new options, such as baked chips, pretzels, milk and more.

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Fight continues over healthful school meals

Jun. 16, 2014

Last year they battled over how much to help poor Americans afford groceries. Now Democrats and Republicans in Congress are waging another food fight, this time over nutritional standards for students.

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New healthcare model to impact foodservice

By Paul King on Jun. 16, 2014

A new model for hospitals is being created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its impact will be felt by patients, staff and visitors, even in foodservice.

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First lady pledges to fight for lunch standards

Jun. 13, 2014

Michelle Obama on Thursday turned her annual garden harvest into a showcase for healthier school lunch standards and pledged to "fight until the bitter end" to keep them in place.

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House delays vote on relaxing school meal standards

Jun. 13, 2014

The vote, which was expected last Thursday, has been delayed to next week.

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Wired for health

By Paul King on Jun. 12, 2014

One of the sessions I attended at last month’s Association for Healthcare Foodservice (AHF) conference was on the use of nutrition apps in foodservice.

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Manufacturer brings healthier pizzas to schools

Jun. 12, 2014

Given the current uproar over new federal rules aimed at getting schoolchildren to eat more healthfully, you might think fast food was an endangered species on the cafeteria line.

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White House threatens veto of GOP bill allowing schools to opt out of healthier school meals

Jun. 11, 2014

School nutrition expenses prompt directors to lobby for a break while the White House believes this would be a major step backwards.

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