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Janet Poppendieck On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to end childhood obesity. The participating chefs will each work with a local school to help raise awareness about nutrition and healthy [more...]  Janet Poppendieck Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, wrote a guest post last week on the Fed Up with Lunch blog, where blogger “Mrs. Q” chronicles her quest to eat a school lunch every day for a year. Poppendieck reminded readers that right now there is a crucial opportunity to make a difference in [more...] Tavis Smiley recently interviewed both Judith A. Carney, coauthor of In the Shadow of Slavery, and Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, on his Public Radio International show. Asked about the inspiration behind her research, Carney describes how working in agricultural development in West Africa and across the Americas raised her interest in studying food [more...] Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, spoke at the Second Harvest Food Bank School Lunch Nutrition Summit in Watsonville, CA, an event focused on school lunch reform. The cafeteria is an important opportunity to teach students about what to eat, says Poppendieck, and when pizza and nachos are the [more...] Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All After decades on the rise, obesity rates have stabilized among most groups of Americans, according to two CDC studies published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But rates remain high, and increased among the heaviest boys aged 6 to 19. With 17% of children considered [more...] We are pleased to announce that Episode 27 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, about the complex historical, economic, social, and nutritional factors behind what students eat [more...] |
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