Advocates cheer expansion of free school meals | Pa. school nutrition program maintains meal service | Mont. teacher named nonprofit's School Health Champion
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted the USDA to issue waivers to allow all schools to provide students with free meals through the end of the school year. Advocates for childhood nutrition say universal, free meals are the optimal offering and help to curb food insecurity, improve outcomes for students and remove the stigma that often accompanies meal assistance.
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School nutrition professionals in Pennsylvania's Marion Center Area School District worked to ensure that students did not miss a meal during the district's shift to remote instruction due to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite supply chain difficulties and other challenges, officials say families have received grocery bags of food for students each week.
A study in Pediatrics found that almost half of 418 videos from top children's channels on YouTube featured food, with 90% of them highlighting junk food, fast food and soft drinks. These videos were viewed over 1 billion times, which the study authors said was a "staggering" level of exposure.
A study in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain found that teens with migraines who start school before 8:30 a.m. had an average of 7.1 headache days a month after adjusting for risk factors such as use of migraine medication, homework volume, gender, skipping breakfast and sleep loss, compared with 5.8 headache days among those who start school later in the morning. The findings are based on data involving over 1,000 high-school students.
Performance can be improved with what you possess, such as your skill set and how you look at the world, says Jamil Qureshi, a consultant to athletes and corporations. "The way to create new possibilities and opportunities is by creating new perspectives," he says.
People want to feel part of a group, but groups need leadership or else they become divisive, run by fear and devoid of truth, writes Susan Fowler. "More than ever, we need moral leaders with the awareness and ability to create tribes that thrive through choice, connection and competence -- not just for the sake of the tribe, but for the world that encompasses the tribe," she writes.
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