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When Childhood Obesity Gets In the Way of Fun

April 23, 2012
I originally shared this story on my personal blog MotherTalkers.com. -Elisa I was debating if and how to post this story as I know that childhood obesity is a touchy subject. But like many Latino families across the country , our family has certainly grappled with obesity and related illnesses...
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Elisa Batista
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Snack Does Not Equal Sugar

April 22, 2012
This story originally appeared in the LA Moms Blog . Yes, I’m the resident Sugar Nazi at my school, the parent who complained when a Halloween celebration involved kindergarteners nibbling powdered sugar donuts tied with string off a clothesline using only their mouths. I’m a wet blanket, I’m here...
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Cynthia Liu
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From Quinoa to Tater Tots- Food Justice in Our Schools

April 20, 2012
My four year old eats quinoa every Tuesday at her preschool for snack. Wednesdays they get carrot soup for lunch. Fridays they bake bread. She's lucky to go to a school that sees healthy food as integral to her growth and development, and we're lucky we can afford to send her there. Because, of...
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Natasha Freidus
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The Trouble With Tribbles and Food Deserts

April 20, 2012
The New York Times featured an article announcing the results of two studies examining the relationship between the physical health conditions in low-income neighborhoods and the availability of “healthy” food. The studies, the Times piece reported, seem to contradict the popular notion of a “food...
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Mark Winston Griffith
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UPDATED! Food Revolution! A Blog Carnival On School Food and Fighting Childhood Obesity, Diabetes

April 20, 2012
This morning as I packed lunches for my two daughters, my youngest peered over the counter asking, “Did you pack some chips?” She and I both laughed as I placed apple in her lunch bag along side a small portion of her favorite guacamole-flavored chips. Everyday we try to strike a balance between...
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Food Justice is Racial Justice

April 20, 2012
I have spent a lot of time in urban America looking at different neighborhoods and different cultures. I’m an anthropologist and I’ve examined the culture around food and some of the reasons why my community has the relationship to food that we do. One of the reasons that black people have the...
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Marc Lamont Hill

Why I Am Making Soul Food Junkies

April 20, 2012
In 2007, my father passed away from pancreatic cancer. One of the many factors leading to pancreatic cancer is a high fat, meat-based diet. My father’s diet consisted of both. While I am not certain that my father’s diet alone contributed to his disease, his illness capped off what had been my...
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Byron Hurt

Kale Salad and the Kids of East Los Angeles!

April 20, 2012
I originally wrote this story for my food blog Presley's Pantry . All photos were taken by Mando Lopez. --Nicole LA CAUSA is a local non-profit organization in East Los Angeles that works to re-empower youth that have been pushed out of the traditional educational system and provides them with...
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Nicole Presley
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Setting a New Academic Standard: Getting Junk Food Out of Schools

April 20, 2012
A healthy nation starts with healthy kids, and experts and parents agree that junk food is a huge contributor to skyrocketing rates of diabetes and other chronic diseases. But the food and beverage industries spend billions of dollars promoting unhealthy foods virtually everywhere kids go--...
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Why Kids Eat What They Do (or Don't)

April 20, 2012
This is an updated and adapted version of the second of a three-part series that originally appeared at The (ex) Expatriate's Kitchen blog . I first started this article series when I realized how many other influences there are on my child’s diet. I was trying to buy plastic food and a grocery...
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Beth Bader

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