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Welcome to the New York State Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Alliance new blog spot. We'll be blogging about policies and practices to improve healthy eating and active living, food marketing,...
View ArticleIn Denial? Health Organizations that Take Money From Pepsi, Coke, etc. are...
Ever since sugary drink taxes were proposed, Big Beverage has been in a philanthropic frenzy trying to co-opt as many groups as possible. Witness recent Big Beverage donations to:o The Children’s...
View ArticleIn the War against Big Food, Money and Messaging Trump Science
“We need to bring as much rigor to the fight (for a healthy, sustainable food system) as we have to the science.” That perceptive statement came from a public health leader, Dr. Robert K. Ross,...
View ArticleMyPlate Mania: Much Ado About Nothing
Anyone who thinks that the USDA's new food icon, MyPlate (www.choosemyplate.gov) is going to change the eating habits of Americans, needs to have his head examined. While there's no question that the...
View ArticleSchool buses no place for junk food ads
Published in the Albany Times Union, Friday, June 10, 2011New York's school buses could become traveling billboards if state Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-Buffalo, and Assemblyman Steven Englebright, D-Suffolk...
View ArticleHow Sweet It Is! Jamie Oliver Spurs Flavored Milk Ban in the LAUSD
What happens when you add ridiculous amounts of sugar to different foods to get kids to eat them? It creates a preference for sugary foods that will likely last a lifetime.That’s why so many food...
View ArticleMcChange Doesn't Come Easy
Under intense pressure from health advocates, and with the kind of fanfare that only a gazillion dollar multinational company can muster, McDonald's has announced that it will soon include apple slices...
View ArticleLet the Big Ag Reframing Begin
I've been issuing periodic warnings via Twitter that food and agriculture reformers better pay extremely close attention to the new, deep pocketed industry coalition, the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers...
View ArticleFeeling the Heat: Chain Restaurants Reformulate Unhealthy Fare Due to Good...
Policy change has been a shared goal of all food reformers. So why haven’t advocates seemed to notice or acknowledge that several recently implemented policies are stimulating healthy changes to...
View ArticleVendor Rebates Limit Choices to Junk and More Junk
Like many food reformers, I started out as an aggravated mother in our local schools. Ten years ago, we had just moved to a new school district and I couldn't believe the array of junk food in school...
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Occupy Big Food's First Rally in Zuccotti Park: The Start of a Grassroots...
Food reformers took to the streets on Saturday as Occupy Big Food (OBF) the brainchild of Kristin Wartman, a food writer and nutrition educator and Erika Lade, a graduate student in NYU’s Food Studies...
View ArticleYes Virginia, Food Reformers Love Food (Decadent Recipe Included)
As a longtime, food reformer (I got my start trying to improve the food in our school district), people expect strange things from me. And often their comments about food are really weird. I've had...
View ArticlePaula Deen at the Crossroads: Punch Line or Role Model?
American’s foremost peddler of excessive butter, cream, salt and sugar, chef Paula Deen, has finally confirmed rumors that she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago. Her timing for this...
View ArticleThe Top Six Food Politics Lessons Learned in 2011
This hasn’t been a banner year for improving America’s food system, food environment or food policies. A look back demonstrates that not only have we failed to make any new progress in food and...
View Article32 Million Reasons to Cheer the USDA
There are 32 million reasons why the USDA's new school meal standards are good news. That's the number of children who participate in the National School Breakfast and Lunch programs in the U.S. and...
View ArticleWhy Americans are Angry About Pink Slime
The meat industry and the USDA just don't get it.Americans are repulsed to learn that "pink slime," an unappetizing industrial slurry of cow connective tissue and low-grade beef scraps, is being added,...
View ArticleUSDA to Americans: You'll Eat Pink Slime Whether You Want It or Not
Have Americans been slimed, again? The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium-hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely...
View ArticleAmericans Have a Beef with Food System Transparency
The best summation I've heard of the pink slime debacle comes from blogger and petitioner Bettina Elias Siegel. The use of lean finely textured beef (LFTB) in ground beef," said Ms. Siegel, is "one of...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm: How the Pink Slime Debacle Created Food System Change
Something remarkable happened recently in the world of food reform. The pink slime debacle created the perfect storm of food system change, thanks to a combination of evocative language, consumer...
View ArticleHas Mayor Bloomberg Outsmarted the Beverage Industry?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a gutsy guy. Thwarted twice in his efforts to cut sugary drink consumption (the Mayor supported, unsuccessfully, a New York state tax on sugary drinks and a New York City...
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