Archive for May 10th, 2010
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School Lunches: From Mystery Meat to Healthier Fare
May 10
Hour 1
What’s for lunch? Frozen pizza, French fries, burgers and chicken fingers. That’s the menu in most school cafeterias. But recently, these fast food-style offerings have come under fire. First lady Michelle Obama, chef Jamie Oliver, even some military generals, have singled out school lunches as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. Congress is also debating a proposal to increase funding and set federal nutritional standards for school lunches. This hour, we’ll look at how school lunches became so unhealthy, the challenges schools face to making them more nutritious, and their effect on children's health. Our guests are Virginia Stallings, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Chair of an Institute of Medicine report on school lunches, and Jan Poppendieck, a sociologist at Hunter College and author of "Free for All: Fixing School Food in America."
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Dr. Sylvia Earle, on the Gulf oil spill & other attacks on the oceans
May 10
Hour 2
Dr. SYLVIA EARLE is one of the most famous ocean explorers - and explainers - of all time. The oceanographer was the former chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is one of the world's leading advocates for marine conservation. Lately she’s been speaking up about the environmental toll of marine catastrophes like the Gulf oil spill, acidification caused by the buildup of carbon in the atmosphere and oceans, overfishing and more. She’s in town to give a lecture tonight at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and she’s guest host TRACEY MATISAK’s guest on today’s "Radio Times."
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School Lunches: From Mystery Meat to Healthier Fare May 10
Hour 1 What’s for lunch? Frozen pizza, French fries, burgers and chicken fingers. That’s the menu in most school cafeterias. But recently, these fast food-style offerings have come under fire. First lady Michelle Obama, chef Jamie Oliver, even some military generals, have singled out school lunches as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. Congress is also debating a proposal to increase funding and set federal nutritional standards for school lunches. This hour, we’ll look at how school lunches became so unhealthy, the challenges schools face to making them more nutritious, and their effect on children's health. Our guests are Virginia Stallings, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Chair of an Institute of Medicine report on school lunches, and Jan Poppendieck, a sociologist at Hunter College and author of "Free for All: Fixing School Food in America." -
Dr. Sylvia Earle, on the Gulf oil spill & other attacks on the oceans May 10
Hour 2 Dr. SYLVIA EARLE is one of the most famous ocean explorers - and explainers - of all time. The oceanographer was the former chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is one of the world's leading advocates for marine conservation. Lately she’s been speaking up about the environmental toll of marine catastrophes like the Gulf oil spill, acidification caused by the buildup of carbon in the atmosphere and oceans, overfishing and more. She’s in town to give a lecture tonight at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and she’s guest host TRACEY MATISAK’s guest on today’s "Radio Times."
