Take Action Now to Provide Healthier Food Options for Children in Our Schools

Each day in schools across the country, children are faced with a decision that will impact the rest of their lives: Kids determine which foods they will eat during lunch time. About 40 percent will buy a snack, either from…

SpongeBob Wanted: May be Armed with Nutritionally Dangerous Foods

SpongeBob Square Pants, you’re wanted for marketing junk food to kids. That’s the gist of an ad published in the Hollywood Reporter today targeting Nickelodeon, SpongeBob’s creator, for aggressively marketing nutritionally dangerous foods to kids. Nickelodeon has yet to…

Good news on child obesity?

Child advocates been decrying the rise of child obesity for many years. In fact, health experts have in recent years been calling it an epidemic. But now they’re cautiously reporting some good news at last.

While childhood obesity has remained…

Cutting the fat: Tackling America’s obesity problem so children can become healthy adults

Even more children are at-risk of becoming obese adults by the year 2030. That’s what a new report from Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concluded.  And unless both the federal and state governments take…

Arguing for sensible standards on marketing to children

Fast food chains and other food companies are spending more than $5 million a day on marketing, and our kids are among the targets. Voices board member Lori Dorfman took to the The Hill editorial page today with David…

New food marketing principles to fight child obesity

It’s hard enough teaching your children to eat right without junk food marketers following them everywhere they go. As PreventObesity.net points out, PepsiCo spent $1.3 billion in marketing in 2008 alone. Fortunately, they have a new way for you…

Obesity threatens military enrollment

About 75 percent of military age young Americans are ineligible to serve, and obesity is a major factor.  Mission: Readiness, a group of senior retired military leaders that advocates for investments in children, profiled young adults who are “ready,…

Child nutrition bill passes!

Congress has just passed the child nutrition bill, sending it to President Obama for his expected signature.  What this means is more meals for needy children, less junk food served at school and more healthy meals where children gather.  A…

The child nutrition bill needs your voice!

Congress will take up the child nutrition bill (S.3307) soon, and we need your voice to help millions of kids get healthy meals!  More than 17 million families live at risk of hunger in America, and this important bill…

“No one goes hungry in America,” and other myths

In the “5 myths about hunger in America,” the Washington Post shows that hunger is a much more serious problem than some Americans realize.  More than 17 million families live at risk of hunger in this country, and…