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The Big Idea: Comprehensive School Dining

 Jul. 16, 2012

The Academy for Global Citizenship opened in 2008. Our whole mission is to focus on positive health and nutrition, environmental sustainability and international mindedness. As part of our mission focused on positive health and nutrition, we integrate tha

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The Big Idea: Hospital Food Fight

 Jul. 16, 2012

Two years ago, as a fundraiser, we created Hospital Food Fight. We invite the different medical systems in the area to donate money in exchange for their participation in the event, and we also personally reach out to chefs at the hospitals to encourage t

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The Big Idea: Smash Your Food

Jul. 16, 2012

The educational game Smash Your Food allows kids to pick your food face, which becomes your avatar. Then you enter your age, gender and level of activity. That gives you an RDI (recommended daily intake). Then you play. The child tries to guess the cubes

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The Big Idea 2012

Jul. 16, 2012

At FoodService Director we encourage sharing ideas. We often refer to it as "stealing," but in a good way. Following the success of our Steal This Idea section we started an annual feature—The Big Idea—where you'll find 10 ideas

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Teaching Moments

By Becky Schilling on Jul. 11, 2012

Nutrition education is becoming an increasingly important aspect for child nutrition directors. With the new meal regulations in effect as of July 1, school meals must now include a wider variety of fruits and vegetables in larger quantities than ever bef

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Marketing Healthy

By Emily Rogan on Jul. 10, 2012

As colleges and universities across the country join the movement to offer healthier and more nutritious foods, foodservice directors are faced with the challenge of marketing those healthy foods to students and faculty members alike. FSD checked in with

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Breakfast may help cut diabetes risk

Jul. 10, 2012

A new study shows that people who eat breakfast every day are less likely to become obese, develop Type 2 diabetes, or gain stomach fat.

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Healthy Performance

By Paul King on Jun. 26, 2012

Sometimes the concept of stealth health can be actualized in something as simple as a name change. That’s how Holy Cross Dining, at the College of the Holy Cross, solved the problem of how to convince students to eat more healthfully, when it introd

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Breakfast Business

By Becky Schilling on Jun. 22, 2012

Everyone knows the saying, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Byron Sackett, child nutrition director for 12,000-student Lincoln County Schools, questioned why that notion wasn’t being taken to heart in his district. So Sacke

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Tired minds crave junk food

By Becky Schilling on Jun. 12, 2012

A new study came out this week that said if you’re tired you are more likely to crave junk food than when you’re well rested. The researchers, from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University in New York, found that tired brains associate junk food with reward and pleasure, making sleep-deprived people more likely to grab a burger or slice of pizza.

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