One of the joys of being a teacher is seeing where students end up after they graduate from high school. In some cases, we’re lucky to have the teacher-student relationship evolve into one where former students start to get comfortable with the idea of teacher as friend, peer, or in a few instances, colleague. Today [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 24, 2009
“Smart Choices” Reconsidered.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the food labeling program where certain food products were being marked as Smart Choices to encourage people to make better decisions about the foods they were purchasing. The problem I wrote about was that the labels were going on foods like Froot Loops and [...]
October 20, 2009
Inspiration for the “Faces of Hunger” Contest.
The latest video from the New York based group Improv Everywhere was released today and is called “Grocery Store Musical.” Enjoy.
In addition, for those budding filmmakers out there, consider making your own short film about hunger for a cash prize.
While it may be too close to the deadline for some of [...]
October 19, 2009
Act on Health Care Reform!
As the U.S. Congress prepares to vote on health reform, we need your help to urge members of Congress to preserve the prevention provisions! While the current provisions show a strong commitment to preventing chronic diseases, which account for 75 percent of our health care costs, policy makers could slash these provisions as they try [...]
October 17, 2009
Award for Best World Food Day message goes to Silverman.
Yesterday was World Food Day, a day to mark the establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations. This organization was established on October 16, 1945 and its purpose is to make sure that the world gets adequately fed, but their latest report reeks of failures. While we [...]
October 10, 2009
Stephanie Smith, Differences in Aid, and Paul Farmer.
The conversation about food has been both lively and varied this week. Last weekend the New York Times released a feature about Stephanie Smith, a 22-year-old dance teacher whose life has been ruined as a result of eating a hamburger tainted with E. Coli 0157. This moving and educational account of [...]
October 6, 2009
New York Times Lesson Plan that includes us!
While it’s taken us a while to find out about this, it’s still relevant. So, for all of the teachers out there, here’s the lesson plan that The New York Times Learning Network designed concerning eating and economics, and of course, it includes our blog/project.
As teachers, we were flattered to find out about this, and [...]
October 6, 2009
Glamour Magazine Loves Us.
We were pretty surprised to find that Glamour Magazine’s Health & Fitness section links to our project, but after peeking through some of their articles, we were happy to have their support. Big thanks to Glamour Magazine for sharing our blog with their readers!
- Christopher
October 3, 2009
“S” is for Sugar.
Christopher and I both suffer from a love of chocolate. While we generally try to eat healthfully, this morning we enjoyed a breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes. There are many occasions when after dinner, one of use will comment that we could go for some of the dark sweet stuff. However, we know this about [...]
