Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children by Ann Cooper

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Foreword by Dr. Mehmet Oz.

It's the biggest public health crisis in America, the daily headache for millions of parents, and the challenge we can't fail to meet. If the eating habits of America's children don't change now, they'll soon be on the wrong end of the statistics. The percentage of obese children in America today has more than doubled since 1970. Over 35% of our nation's children are overweight, 25% are obese, and 14% have Type II Diabetes, a condition previously seen primarily in adults. Processed foods favored by schools and busy parents for their convenience not only contribute to obesity; they also contain additives and preservatives and are tainted with herbicide and pesticide residues that are believed to cause a variety of illnesses, including cancer. People in America today simply do not know how to eat properly and they don't seem to have time to figure out how, so fast food, home meal replacements, and processed foods take the place of good, healthy cooking, and there couldn't be a worse alternative.

Many parents rely on the USDA approved National School Lunch program to be providing their children with nutritionally balanced, healthful meals. The trouble is, they're not. While most schools continue to try to meet better nutritional guidelines, they're still not measuring up, and many are actually contributing to the crisis we've seen emerging over the last decade. A good 78% of the schools in America do not actually meet the USDA's nutritional guidelines, which is no surprise considering the fact that schools keep the cost of lunch to between $1 and $1.50 per child. School lunch menus have undergone some changes inrecent years and are marginally improved, but still nearly all our schools continue to operate under the misguided notion that kids actually prefer to eat frozen, processed, fried, sugary foods.

Chef Ann Cooper has emerged as one of the nation's leading, most influential, and most respected advocates for changing how our kids eat. In Lunch Lessons, she offers a better way.

Lunch Lessons is a recipe–filled guide that inspires us to reconnect with the origins and importance of good food in our lives. It is divided into seven chapters. An introduction gives readers a brief history of the origins of the national school lunch program. Chapter One is a primer on basic childhood nutrition. The middle chapters offer healthful home–tested recipes arranged by season according to the school year (Fall, Winter, Spring, and finally, Summer), and recipes will be further categorized in Breakfast, Snacks, and Lunch sections to reflect seasonal availability. Chapter VII, Beyond the Lunch Pail, is a jumping off point for starting and maintaining organic gardens as well as composting and will address what parents can do in and around their homes to reduce their children's exposure to harmful chemicals. Chapter VIII, A Season for Change, will be full of information on how parents can begin to affect change in their local school l

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