Print Resources
1. Free for All: Fixing School Food in American
This book takes a comprehensive look at the history of school lunches, the policy, and the nutritional profile of federal meals. The author explores multiple perspectives and reveals the forces behind determining what foods are being served in schools. She also provides a vision for change to help improve school lunches.
Poppendieck, J. (2010). Free for all fixing school food in America. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
2. School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of American’s Favorite Welfare Program (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
Susan Levine’s book takes a close look at the history of school lunches and investigates school lunch politics. Her book is well researched and timely considering the rising epidemic of childhood obesity. Anyone interested in school lunch reform should read this book.
Levine, S. (2008). School lunch politics: the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
3. Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children
This book starts by examining the American diet and explains why we should avoid certain foods. Lunch Lessons looks at the history behind school lunches, provides ideas for how to improve school lunch programs, and references successful school lunch programs that are already making positive changes.
Cooper, A., & Holmes, L. M. (2006). Lunch lessons: changing the way we feed our children. New York, NY: Collins.
4. The School Food Revolution: Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
The School Food Revolution examines school lunch programs and the reform movements in London, Rome, New York and developing nations. The book looks at the theory, policy, practice and design of delivering a sustainable food system for all.
Morgan, K., & Sonnino, R. (2008). The school food revolution public food and the challenge of sustainable development. London: Earthscan.
5. What’s Going On with School Lunch Reform?
This article is the first installment of a 3-part series on school lunch called “Turning the Tables.” The article talks about the importance of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and addresses changes that are being made to reform school lunch programs across the nation.
Parsons, S. (2011, April 16). What's Going On with School Lunch Reform?. change.org. Retrieved June 3, 2011, from https://news.change.org/stories/whats-going-on-with-school-lunch-reform
6. Bad Food Is Making Our Kids Sick (and How to Take Charge)
This article is about chef Ann Cooper and how she is working from the ground
up to implement healthy cooked-from-scratch meals in schools throughout the
country. She understands the importance of providing organic, local, and
sustainable food for our children. Ann also founded the Food Family Farming
Foundation in 2009, which works towards the goal of getting healthy food into
every school in America.
Cooper, A. (n.d.). Ann Cooper: Bad Food Is Making Our Kids Sick (and How to Take Charge). Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-cooper/a-lunch-lady-serves-up-he_b_857253.html
7. This website shows a graph of the increasing rates of childhood obesity.
Obesity and CVD: Conceptual Model." National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Retrived June 1, 2011. <http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/child-obesity/graphics.htm
8. Are School Lunches Setting Kids Up for Obesity and Poor Nutirtion?
This article is highlights what congress is doing to fight childhood obesity.
Richardson, J. (n.d.). Are School Lunches Setting Kids Up for Obesity and Poor Nutrition?. alternet.org. Retrieved June 3, 2011, from www.alternet.org/food/145803/are_school_lunches_setting_kids
9. Childhood: Obesity and School School Lunches
This New York Times article discusses the increasing rates of childhood obesity
and what help is on the way to improve school lunch programs.
Rabin, R. (2011, February 4). Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches. New York
Times, p. 1.
10. Childhood Obesity offers strategies for how you can help make a difference at your school and help prevent childhood obesity. This website also gives data and statistics on obesity.
Childhood Obesity - DASH/HealthyYouth. (n.d.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/obesity/
Websites/Organizations
11. Farm to School is an organization dedicated to connecting schools and local farms with the purpose of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, while supporting local and regional farmers.
FarmToSchool.org Home Page -- FarmtoSchool.org. (n.d.). FarmToSchool.org Home Page -- FarmtoSchool.org. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http:/farmtoschool.org
12. This non-profit organization was founded by chef, Ann Cooper. This organization helps to ensure that all children have access to healthy food at school. The website provides tools that enable schools, parents, advocates, students, administrators, teachers and food service staff to progress from serving highly processed, unhealthy food to serving fresh, scratch-cooked food.
13. Let’s Move: Salad Bars to Schools
This website is a grassroots public health effort to provide more salad bars in schools. The vision of this organization is to increase the number of salad bars in schools in order to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Get involved and donate to a school today!
Let's Move Salad Bars 2 Schools // Powered by Giveo. (n.d.). Let's Move Salad Bars 2 Schools // Powered by Giveo. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://saladbars2schools.org/
14. The LunchBox: Healthy Tools to Help All Schools
The LunchBox is an excellent resource for schools and is full of resources, menus and recipes ideas, technical tools, community support, and videos.
Welcome to the Lunch Box! | Lunchbox. (n.d.). Welcome to the Lunch Box! | Lunchbox. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.thelunchbox.org/ http://www.thelunchbox.org/
15. This chart shows a bar graph of the increasing rates of childhood and adolecent obesity. DiscoveryHealthCME :: Childhood Obesity :: Photos :: Charts." DiscoveryChannelCME :: Continuing Medical Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2011.
<http://discoveryhealthcme.discovery.com/childhoodobesity/charts/charts.html.
16. Sleep: The Missing Link in Preventing Childhood Obesity.
Dr. Judith Owens is associative professor of pediatrics at Brown University and is a leading expert in the field of sleep. She and other researchers have identified that inadequate sleep is an important factor in the epidemic of childhood obesity.
Owens, J. O. (n.d.). Sleep: The Missing Link in Preventing Childhood Obesity | Intent.com. Intent.com | Dream It, Share It, Achieve It. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.intent.com/nancyrothstein/blog/sleep-missing-link-preventing-childhood-obesity
17. Healthy School Food
This website is a great resource for other schools looking to adapt a similar program. Healthy School Food is a NY statewide nonprofit that works to improve the health and well being of students by providing local, organic food. This nonprofit also supports the elimination of unhealthy competitive foods in all areas of the school.
About NY Coalition for Healthy School Food. (n.d.). NY Coalition for Healthy School Food. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.healthylunches.org/about.htm
Multimedia Resources
18. First Lady Michelle Obama Talks About the First Year of Let's Move! Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYCyfmFwr5s&feature=player_embedded#at=47
19. This 5 minute video highlights what happened to several Berkely schools when parents started paying attention to their children’s lunches. This community of parents made significant improvements to school lunches and helped make the school a better place for everybody. Retrieved from:
20. Video of Jamie Oliver giving a speech for his TED prize award in 2010. This video is worth watching as Jamie helps to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook and empower people everywhere to fight obesity. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_QOzc79Uc&feature=player_embedded
