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Summer camp teaches students with food allergies how to cook

Jun. 23, 2015

Directors of a Frederick, Maryland, summer camp want to help children with severe allergies to have some fun with food for a change.

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Major football schools average $600k on additional athlete nutrition

 Apr. 28, 2015

NCAA’s rule allowing athletes unlimited access to food and snacks has some schools offering luxurious meals at dining halls and ‘refueling’ stations at training facilities.

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Nebraska-area schools completes goal to have students fit by 2020

Apr. 28, 2015

Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln set a goal five years ago to reduce childhood obesity rates in Lincoln Public Schools by 10 percent by 2020—LPS has reached that goal six years ahead of schedule. Now the goal is to double that percent.

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Are insects the future of food?

Apr. 28, 2015

With the population rising and the demand for protein increasing, producers and operators will need to find enough protein to feed billions more mouths.

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Students petition for nutrition labels on menus

Apr. 28, 2015

A group of students started a petition at one Chicago university, hoping to improve nutrition labels on menus in the student center.

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A leading post acute care provider announces new food dining service

Apr. 28, 2015

Covenant Care recently introduced its "Enhanced Dining" service that has an expanded menu of nutritious foods, as well as an ergonomics redesign of their dining rooms based on their clients’ preferences.

5 Cutting-edge functions of Mission Bay Hospital’s high-tech meal order system

By Paul King on Apr. 13, 2015

Here are five cutting-edge features of Mission Bay Hospital’s high-tech meal order system.

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University commits to 20 percent threshold for sustainable food purchases

Feb. 24, 2015

The University of Michigan says that by 2025 it will purchase at least 20 percent of its food from producers within a 250-mile radius of Ann Arbor.

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New eating disorder on the rise at universities

Feb. 24, 2015

Nutritionists emphasize there’s no perfect diet as a new disorder called orthorexia nervosa – an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy - sweeps college campuses.

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Students take Real Food Challenge training

Feb. 24, 2015

Students are learning how to push colleges to purchase more fairly-traded, humanely raised, ecologically sound items called “real food.”

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