Wednesday, January 23, 2008
"Eat an apple a day and keep the doctor away". We've all heard this axiom. To me it represents the wisdom that eating fruits (and vegetables if Popeye is any indication) can help fight disease and illness, actually preventing the need to see a doctor. It's a fairly basic an...
CNN reports: "Ann Cooper is on a one-woman whirlwind campaign to change the way kids eat in schools. "We're killing our kids with food," she says. Half of all the Hispanic and African-American kids born in 2000 and one-third of Caucasian kids will have diabetes in their lifetime, many before they graduate college, Cooper says, citing U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics. "It's all because of what we are feeding them," she says. "It's all preventable."
Read more about what she says here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/09/ann.cooper/index.html
And Cooper's wesbite here: http://www.lunchlessons.org/index.html