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Changing the Way We Feed Our Children
Collins
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0060783699
EAN: 9780060783693
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have
something from every major food group, run around the
playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But
today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the
American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most
cafeterias serve a veritable buffet of processed, fried, and
sugary foods, and although many schools have attempted to
improve, they are still not measuring up: 78 percent of the
school lunch programs in America do not meet the USDA's
nutritional guidelines. Chef Ann Cooper has emerged
as one of the nation's most influential and most respected
advocates for changing how our kids eat. In fact, she is
something of a renegade lunch lady, minus the hairnet and
scooper of mashed potatoes. Ann has worked to transform
cafeterias into culinary classrooms. In Lunch
Lessons, she and Lisa Holmes spell out how parents and
school employees can help instill healthy habits in
children. They explain the basics of good childhood
nutrition and suggest dozens of tasty, home-tested recipes
for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. The pages are also packed
with recommendations on how to eliminate potential hazards
from the home, bring gardening and composting into daily
life, and how to support businesses that provide local,
organic food. Yet learning about nutrition and
changing the way you run your home will not cure the plague
of obesity and poor health for this generation of children.
Only parental activism can spark widespread change. With
inspirational examples and analysis, Lunch Lessons is
more than just a recipe book-it gives readers the tools to
transform the way children everywhere interact with food.
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