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For years as a public high school teacher in New York City, I watched my students walk into the classroom with their bags of chips and cans of soda for breakfast. I saw them soar into sugar highs only to be dropped head down minutes later into the abyss of a sugar slump. I saw
It’s almost Halloween, and you know what that means: kids clamoring for candy laden with scary amounts of sugar. Even scarier than the predictable flood of sugar this time of year, though, is the amount of sugar lurking in foods we may be eating every day. Here we round up some of the worst everyday
The subject of GMOs (which stands for genetically modified organisms) is controversial, only because those trying to push them on everyone are dishonest. Most major food companies and grocery stores and restaurants want to use GMOs, and they don’t want you to know you’re eating them. The reason for this is because GMOs increase their
Making dietary changes isn’t easy, but here at FoodFight we believe healthier eating habits are within reach. That’s why we’re starting FoodFight’s Challenge of the Month. Every month we’ll introduce a new challenge to help make a healthier you. We’ll offer guidelines and tips; provide a lesson plan to engage your students in the challenge
Holidays are a time with family, friends and, most noticeably, home cookin’. We’ll all be stockpiling on the goodies: cranberry sauce, stuffing, apple pie and delectable holiday dinners. While this may be a time to indulge, find a way to put a healthy twist on the classics. Around family, especially during the holidays, ‘healthy’ choices
In this day and age, it isn’t easy to prepare a fresh, balanced dinner every evening after work. Nor is it easy to prepare home-cooked breakfasts and lunches for you and your children. Pre-prepared foods have been a solution to time constraints in our chronically busy lives, from cereal bars and granola bars to frozen
I haven’t ordered Michael Pollan’s new book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation yet – but I know that it will soon take up residence next to my copies of Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food and Food Rules. From reading the reviews, I wholeheartedly agree with his assessment that cooking is probably the most
On Tuesday, July 2nd, FoodFight hosted our first ever conference “E.A.T.: Educating America’s Teachers to Lead the Fight Against Obesity” at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. It went beyond our wildest dreams. 150 teachers came from schools all across the tri-state area to get educated about food and its role in their lives. There were
In 2014, McDonald’s plans to offer customers the option to substitute a side salad, fruit, or vegetable as a replacement for French fries in value meals. They have also pledged to promote only water, milk, or juice in its Happy Meal promotions, though soda will still be available for purchase. The chain hopes to fully