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Toledo hospitals take wellness seriously

In an effort to combat obesity and to stand out in a competitive medical market, Toledo-area hospitals are looking for ways to offer healthier, tastier food options to patients, employees, and visitors.

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Nebraska school district makes heathy lunches work

As the Atlantic reports, the Lincoln Public School System (LPS) in Lincoln, Nebraska “has gone above and beyond the legal requirements, dishing out a daily vegetable smorgasbord.

For dessert, The Yorktown Café offers hand-dipped milkshakes with ice cream made on site.

Mark Guttridge, of Longmont's Ollin Farms, handed out yellow, purple and orange carrot sticks on Sunday at the Boulder Valley School District's inaugural Harvest Festival while talking up the freshness and quality of local produce.

To help persuade residents to try a new menu item, we will sometimes add it as a third entrée option, like our Pork Pagoda (pictured).

Food trucks are popular and soon they will be rolling into Duval County high schools serving hot meals with the menu the work of student chefs.

To celebrate Food Day 2014, 352 hospitals in the U.S. planned to serve at least one meat or poultry item raised without the routine use of antibiotics, according to Health Care Without Harm (HCWH).

Students at Discovery Middle School won't just determine the future by what they're learning in classrooms, they're determining what children across the state will eat by what they're learning in lunchrooms.

Rather than bore students with dry stats on calories and fat, Wesley Delbridge, R.D., food & nutrition director for Phoenix’s Chandler Unified School District, is turning healthy eating into a game.

New breakfast regulations are easier to meet and are causing fewer negative student reactions than last year's lunch ones. That's borne out by statistics that show participation for the morning meal holding steady in the past two years. This year's K-12 Census Report also looks at the cost per meal, participation levels and the new competitive foods rules.

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