In her new book, " The Labor of Lunch " (University of California Press, 2019), Jennifer Gaddis of University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Nutrition Today (.pdf) has published a nice history of the initial struggle to design and pass ... and the later struggle to implement ... ...

After years of effort to strengthen nutrition standards, based on scientific reports from the National Academies and others, leading to the...

The  Tufts/UConn RIDGE Program  seeks to support innovative economic research on domestic nutrition assistance programs and to broaden a ne...

The Mississippi Department of Education on February 18 approved new "Smart Snack" standards for schools. According to a summary...

Alan Bjerga and Erik Wasson at Bloomberg  yesterday report that a bi-partisan agreement in the Senate Agriculture Committee this week preser...

For a child, eating a piece of fruit is not some big challenge like climbing Mount Everest. It is realistic for us to expect school meals ...

Leading fast food companies have pledged to follow specific advertising guidelines under the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising In...

Educators and school nutrition personnel in recent years have been discussing and debating the merits of serving breakfast in the classroom ...

McDonald's this month announced at a White House event that it would make some changes to beverages marketed to children in Happy Meals....

At the Menus of Change conference in Boston this evening, I especially appreciated the presentation by Kirsten Saenz Tobey, the Chief Innov...

For just a few more days, you can submit comments to USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) regarding the agency's new proposed reg...

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have petitioned FDA to modify the standa...

For readers concerned about children's media and advertising issues: Are you outraged by what’s marketed to children these days—junk t...

The "competitive foods" served in vending machines and snack bars outside of the federal school meals programs strongly affect bot...

The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center this week released new resources about breakfast and lunch participation in Massachusetts school...

From yesterday's long report by Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts at Reuters: At every level of government, the food and beverage industri...

Under the headline "Obama's Government vs. Your Family," John Hinderaker of the conservative blog Powerline this week links to...

Although appropriations bills are supposed to be about spending -- not policy-making -- Congress took extra special care this week to make s...

Would you say Coca-Cola, the parent company for FANTA, is marketing to children here ? Would you say Coca-Cola is marketing to children i...