Healthy Schools News Archive
National: Helping kids eat healthy at school isn't so hard, Study shows children are just as willing to buy nutritious lunches Sunday, November 25, 2007
Local: Students get look at healthy lifestyle, Ypsilanti middle schoolers screened Saturday, November 10, 2007 and Project Healthy Schools goes to East, West , Program targets 6th-graders and staff Sunday, November 11, 2007
Local: Saline holds Walk to School Day Other area schools will participate Wednesday, October 01, 2007
National: Federal Measure Would Amend No Child Left Behind Act to Prioritize PE, Prevent Obesity, Sep 19, 2007
National: Kellogg Retreats on Ads to Kids, June 14, 2007, Kellogg Co. plans new nutritional standards for its popular brands such as Pop Tarts, Fruit Loops and Apple Jacks.
National: Massachusetts Measure Would Create Statewide Safe Routes to School Initiative, May 31, 2007, Massachusetts lawmakers heard testimony this week on a measure that would direct federal Safe Routes to Schools funding to local community groups and schools that organize student walking and biking programs.
National: Food & Beverage Companies Targeting Children & Teens with Digital Marketing Tactics, May 17, 2007, Berkeley Media Studies Group and the Center for Digital Democracy revealed that food and beverage companies are using the latest digital media technologies to promote their products to children and adolescents.
National: Nutrition standards urged for foods sold in school, CNN, April 25, 2007. This article reports on a new report from the Institute of Medicine, Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way Toward Healthier Youth
Local: Schools improve Mich. students' health, mlive.com, April 11, 2007. Project Healthy Schools gets some press, also see press release in archived news.
National: Adolescent Brains Not Ready to Avoid Risks, Study Says. Join Together, April 10, 2007.
National: Strong Evidence Links Soft Drink Consumption to Obesity, Diabetes, Health Behavior News Service, March 6, 2007. The case against swigging soda just got stronger. A large systematic review reveals clear associations between consumption of nondiet soft drinks and increased calorie intake and body weight.
Local: The results are in: Project Healthy Schools gets an A. Community-University program lowers cardiovascular risk factors, UMHS Press Release March 30, 2007.
Local: Every Week (and more!) at YPS – Ypsilanti Public Schools, March 9, 2007. Contest winners announced. Chartwells, the food service provider for Ypsilanti Public Schools, announced the winners of the “Be a Voice for Balanced Choice” contest and they are: Courtney McCoy, a sophomore at Ypsilanti High School and Tahne English, a seventh grader at East Middle School. Both students received a $25 gift card to Target and their entry forms have been submitted for consideration in the national competition, which is a $500 prize. Students were asked to explain the benefits of improved eating habits, how they have expanded their knowledge of nutrition and what they are doing to maintain an active lifestyle.
Local: Buddy Moorehouse: Should parents let kids drink?, Livingston Press & Argus, March 4, 2007. There was a troubling story in the paper last week. It was a Police Blotter item that ran on Wednesday under the headline, "Police: Teen caught with liquor says dad lets him drink."
Local: It's only alcohol': District confronts problem, The Saline Reporter, March 1, 2007. Local athletes kicked off teams, ski club members caught drinking. The drug of choice among Saline High School students is not cocaine. It's not heroine or marijuana. It's alcohol.
National: Exercised Legislators Defend Recess, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Feb. 9, 2007. A bill recently introduced in the Washington Legislature, would require that all public schools in the state provide K-12 students with an hour of physical activity each day.
National: School Meals Deserve Strong Public Support, The Billings Gazette, Feb. 11, 2007. Dayle Hayes, Co-chair of the Montana Team, submitted a guest opinion article to inform the public about pending state legislation that will allocate funds to Montana schools to purchase equipment that will assist their food service departments with providing quality school meals.
National: Where’s the Fruit?: Fruit Content of the Most Highly-Advertised Children’s Food and Beverages. Where’s the Fruit?, conducted by staff from Prevention Institute, documents that despite advertising and packaging that boldly suggest the presence of fruit, over half (51 percent) of these children’s food products contain no fruit at all! Strategic Alliance, January 26, 2007.
National: Childhood Overweight and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study - Results of a study to estimate the prevalence and incidence of overweight in African-American and Caucasian girls, and to examine associations between adolescent overweight and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 150, Issue 1, Pages 18-25 (January 2007)
