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Using Parent Pester-Power To Tackle $1.8 Billion in Food and Beverage Marketing

In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission reported the food and beverage industry spends $1.8 billion each year on food marketing to kids. As a parent, that number makes me tired, and the advertisements themselves exhaust me. I know I’m not alone—even the strongest among us have been worn down by the...

Healthy Schools Roundup from BagtheJunk.org

www.BagtheJunk.org Here's a round up of the latest and greatest from BagtheJunk.org , a national campaign to empower the school community to act as champions for healthy foods and drinks in schools. Healthy Fundraising Ideas: Host a Scavenger Hunt Instead of Selling Sweets offers easy ideas for how...

A Side of Foodborne Illness With That? Common Food Safety Mistakes in Cookbooks

I love flipping through cookbooks to get ideas for dinner from the glossy pictures and the enticing descriptions of the meals I could create with the right ingredients in my pantry and fridge and a few more minutes in my day. But, as the communications director for the food safety non-profit, the...

5 Ways to Avoid Toxins in Food Packaging

You've probably heard about BPA in the news a few years ago. The chemical BPA (or bisphenol A) in baby bottles and water bottles was all over the press and led to the FDA banning the hormone disrupting chemical from baby bottles and sippy cups in 2012. But did you know that BPA still lurks in many...