District's school nutrition program recognized
The district's school nutrition program, along with Director Cynthia Sevier, was recently profiled by the School Nutrition Association in its Well Done! publication for efforts to improve student health & nutrition through its local wellness policy.
Well Done! provides examples of how local wellness policies can have dramatic, positive effects on the entire school system, according to the association. The federal government required all school districts participating in the National School Lunch Program approve wellness policies by July 2006. Policy goals had to include nutrition guidelines for all foods available at schools as well as consistent messaging about nutrition and health.
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Look out for creative ways companies are getting into schools Case in point- here is a list of organic ingredients from Steaz sparkling green tea
INGREDIENTS: Sparking Filtered Water, Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Natural Raspberry Flavor, Citric Acid, Vegetable Juice for color, Sodium Citrate, Fair Trade Certified� Organic Decaffeinated Ceylon Green Tea, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), and Organic Acerola Juice Concentrate.
What this cmpany did was take the caffeine out of tea and make a sparkling beverage out of it. This is also known by the slang term soda.
Then they added Vitamin C from both ascorbic acid and Acerola. It still has all of the sugar that we've come to know and love in soda - 35 grams in a can and a 135 calories - but with Vitamin C.
Please keep the healthy beverages coming to nourish our children. Cheers.
Posted on April 11, 2008 5:59 PM