Chicago News Cooperative: Misplaced Priorities at a Session on Schools

The Chicago Board of Education meeting last weekend included a defense of the Breakfast in the Classroom program, but no one talked about the city’s already short school day.

Chicago News Cooperative: It’s Breakfast Time, and Education Will Pay

The Chicago school day was already the shortest in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but it is now getting even shorter.

Schools Facing Cuts if Lunches Aren’t Paid For

Principals in city schools have been told to collect the money parents owe or identify a budget line the money can be taken from.

Restaurant Nutrition Draws Focus of First Lady

As part of her effort to influence diet, Michelle Obama hopes to prod restaurants toward healthier offerings.

Big City: Helping Schools’ Chefs Find Alternatives to Frozen Pizza

New York school menus have already seen sweeping changes, and now school chefs can get help on how to make those healthful foods tempting to their students.

First Lady Asks Congress to Join Childhood Obesity Fight

Declaring the beginning of the “next phase” of a program to combat childhood obesity, Michelle Obama called on Congress to pass legislation that would make many of the program’s initiatives possible.

Recipes For Health: Iranian Tomato and Cucumber Salad

This Persian salad gets its flavor from a variety of fresh herbs.

Recipes For Health: Cucumbers Vinaigrette

Simply slicing cucumbers as thinly as possible helps make this dish memorable.

Vital Signs: Diet: Low-Fat vs. Atkins: Parallel Results

One of the longest trials to pit low-fat diets against Atkins-style diets found that participants lost the same amount of weight after two years, regardless of which diet they were on.

Recipes for Health: Spinach Omelet With Parmesan

This simple one-dish meal can be thrown together in minutes.

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