Food!

March 17, 2014

Schools will soon begin implementing the new Smart Snacks in Schools Guidelines! This is an exciting time for everyone. Kids will have better and healthier choices in vending machines and a la carte lines. Parents can rest easier knowing their kids have better access to healthy foods that will get...

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Karen Showalter

Food!

March 12, 2014

My mom called a few weeks ago with an announcement. “I’m putting one of your recipes into the family cookbook!” she exclaimed happily. “You pick the first one.” My fiancée and I are a few months away from our wedding. Somehow, more so than our recent sprawling combined family holidays or our...

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Claire Moshenberg

Food!

March 7, 2014

Simon and his sister Elena In 2004 my otherwise robust one-and-a-half-year-old son, Simon, came into contact with a “superbug.” Simon woke early one spring morning struggling to breathe. By early afternoon Simon’s skin was ice-cold. My husband and I brought Simon to the emergency room where...

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Everly Macario, Sc.D., M.S., Ed.M.

Food!

March 5, 2014

I like to think I have a lot of influence over my three-year-old daughter’s choices, but it’s hard to compete with the likes of Joe Camel and friendly little M & M smiley faces. Like many parents, I worry that advertising—which has been shown to have a greater influence over youth than peer...

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Manel Kappagoda

Food!

March 5, 2014

During the 1,000 day window between a woman's pregnancy and her child's 2nd birthday, nutrition is critical. The right nutrition can have a life-changing impact on a child's ability to grow, learn and thrive. "Quite simply, there is no other period of a person’s life when nutrition has as profound...

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Migdalia Rivera

Food!

March 4, 2014

There is a child in the barrio, playing with her brother, listening to her mother pleading for food. The unemployment checks have ended. The kitchen is bare. Her mother is calling local pantries, while her children wonder when they will be fed. In the high rises of Manhattan, full of opportunity...

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Migdalia Rivera

Food!

March 4, 2014

The Detroit News published an op-ed by Michigan Congresswoman Candice Miller on February 24th, where the Congresswoman slammed the nutrition standards established under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 . In her op-ed Representative Miller calls the nutrition standards (which guarantee more...

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Elyssa Schmier

Health Care Food!

March 1, 2014

Every mother has a story about the beginnings of her child’s life. Many of them are joyful, some are heartbreaking, but all of them are important. And almost all of them will have at least one thing in common: the desire to give their child the absolute best start to life. Our instincts as moms to...

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Lucy Sullivan

Food!

February 28, 2014

Co-author: Renee Gross, J.D., Legislative Coordinator at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity When you send your child to school in the morning, you expect they will learn math, reading, and writing; even art and physical education. But you probably don’t expect them to learn about...

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Carol Hazen

Food!

February 21, 2014

Parents drive food justice in schools. Their involvement is pivotal in ensuring that children receive access to healthier foods. Knowing this, MomsRising is excited to host this week's #FoodFri chat with the NAACP! Our topic, Food Justice is Racial Justice, will focus on advocating for food justice...

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Migdalia Rivera