USDA, How About More Farm to Table in School Lunches?

Marketplace.org featured a great article on this very topic in late fall of 2014; which is a far cry from what many children are served during lunch at school. Of course, the idea is great, but how would it be paid for? It’s obviously far more economical to serve highly refined, mass produced  food versus […]

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3 Cups of Skim Milk

Drink it up and meet your daily recommended needs for Calcium, according to the USDA.   And to clarify, it’s not just milk, it’s low fat milk. That’s it.  The whole suggestion in its entirety doesn’t mention anything about how if you’re consuming dairy, it should at least be grass-fed, organic and local.     […]

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Five Food Groups?

Funny, I thought there were three:  carbohydrates, proteins and fats.  Apparently, I was wrong.   According to the USDA, there are five: fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods and dairy.   And we should be mostly eating these foods, and avoiding empty calories, which, as per their site include “calories from solid fats and/or added sugars. Solid fats […]

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