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Getting Kids to Eat Produce at School

Scott Kustes on 07 Dec 2007

Here’s an article from Science Daily: Kids Eat More Fruits, Vegetables When Schools Offer Salad Bar
The findings show that the frequency of students’ fruit and vegetable consumption increased significantly — from 2.97 to 4.09 times daily — after a salad bar was introduced.
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“The salad bar program showed us that children will indeed eat more [...]

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Diabetes Hits Younger and Younger

Scott Kustes on 14 Nov 2007

Here’s an article from yesterday’s USA Today about diabetes. The premise is that, as my title says, diabetes is hitting kids younger these days. Type II Diabetes was once called “Adult Onset Diabetes” because it took much longer for the body to accumulate the necessary body fat and insulin resistance to be diabetic. [...]

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