Posted on March 1, 2008 by rebeccascritchfield
With restaurant business booming in cities and towns across America, we have to ask ourselves, does anyone eat at home any more? The fact is that among adults, about three-fourths (73.6%) of all evening meals were eaten at home according to recent analysis by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP). ”Most parents [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by rebeccascritchfield
Following in the steps of Arkansas, Georgia’s state senate passed a bill to weigh school children twice a year and provide the information confidentially to parents. One in three children in Georgia is obese or at risk of obesity.
I’m wondering what people think about this topic. What are the pros and cons of schools getting [...]
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