What You Can Do
Take Action - see the updated
Action Ideas for Improving School
Foods.
NEW Write
to Senator Obama and your Representative in the U.S. House
and ask them to cosponsor new federal legislation that would
provide the USDA with new authority to write rules regarding
competitive foods/beverages in schools.
Publicize the Nutrition in the Schools Network.
We now have a BROCHURE that you can hand out to
friends or place on a table or somewhere where people can
pick it up. If you want to get copies, please contact
us.
Keep Up With the News
The following websites maintain up-to-date links to current
news articles:
In
the News (school nutrition, focus on soft drink issues)
Health
and Nutrition
Nutrition
and Children's Health in the News
Nutrition
in the News (click & scroll down, focus on schools)
Pouring
Rights & Soft Drinks in the News (click & scroll
down)
Fast
Food and Junk Food in the News
School
Nutrition Association "In the News"
Sign Up for Newsletters
Sign up for the following:
1. The Center for Science in the Public Interest publishes
the award winning Nutrition
Action Healthletter.
2. Creating
Healthy Kids, a free email list that sends you posting
to the Stonyfield Farms' Creating Healthy Kids blog (web log).
3. The Center for Informed Food Choices has a free
email monthly newsletter, Informed Eating, that contains
food industry news, successful advocacy efforts, book reviews
and issue analysis.
4. The Healthy Schools Campaign (Illinois) has an e-Newsletter
that provides legislative alerts and updates on various activities
and initiatives.
5. The Center for Ecoliteracy
has a free
monthly email newsletter that contains wonderful articles
as well as news about the extremely creative and successful
efforts of the Center to transform the whole approach to food
and eating.
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Mark Your Calendar
August, 2006! By this date, all
school districts that are part of federally-funded school
meal and snack programs must have a WELLNESS POLICY in place.
This policy must include nutritional standards for ALL foods
served in schools and PARENTS and THE PUBLIC MUST be involved
in the development of this policy. Click here
for more information.
Fall of 2005: $1000 grants soon
to be available for Illinois PTA units to promote healthy
eating habit and/or better physical educaiton programs. Click
here for more
information.
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