Chef Ann’s Podcast – National School Lunch Week 2007 with Ann Cooper and Kate Adamick
It’s National School Lunch Week 2007 and Chef Ann’s Third Annual National School Food Challenge is here. Please listen to this podcast and visit LunchLessons.org to participate in this important event.
I enjoyed your podcast about National School Lunch Week 2007 very much. So many points were made clearly. I will put it up on my site today for all those parents who are not aware of what you offer for school lunch ideas. I particularly want to emphasize your point about the healthcare costs involved with children who are now eight years old and not eating healthy foods at school. You stated that by the time they graduate from high school a large percentage will have had symptoms of diabetes and needed school nurses to help them administer the proper doses of insulin to control their disease. Being the wife of a physician, I totally agree with this forecast Diabetes is a costly disease. And it is a high maintenance disease, requiring daily monitoring of insulin levels. Diet is crucial to good health and to survival with diabetes. In the long run the counties, sthe school idstricts will be ahead if they act now and provide a common sense menu to yung children in the school cafeteria.
Thanks so much for all your effort providing healthy school lunches to children.
Judy Wilken MS
Enjoyed your podcast during National School Lunch week. I can tell you both are very passionate about your profession and mission. Change is slow, but when it takes hold it jumps to full bloom. I think you are making a difference where you work and live for a better future. I hope to think that all persons working in child nutrition are striving to make the same changes. We are working on our program as well, but the financial part is difficult to work through. We are beginning to work on more initiatives to make changes in our department with the support of our school board and central administration. I will continue to search for additional support information on your website this weekend.
Best wishes – Alicia Cost, R.D.